Character Analysis
This is what a character wants more than anything in a scene.
What is an objective?
A speech performed by one actor alone on stage.
What is a monologue?
This teacher believed in her students when others didn’t.
Who is Ms. Gruwell?
(1970s): Hip-hop started in this place.
Where is the Bronx, New York?
Most of our assignments are this type (not tests).
What are projects or group work?
This is what stands in the way of a character getting what they want.
What is an obstacle?
This type of monologue reveals a character’s thoughts directly to the audience.
What is a direct address?
Students expressed themselves through this form of writing.
What are journals?
This decade introduced breakdancing, popping, and locking.
What is the 1980s?
This is where you submit your assignments online.
What is Canvas?
The actions a character uses to overcome obstacles are called this.
What are tactics?
When performing a monologue, actors must show this through voice, movement, and facial expression.
What is emotion (or characterization)?
The movie shows how education can help students overcome this.
What is violence, racism, or stereotypes?
This decade is known as the “Golden Age” of hip-hop.
What is the 1990s?
What does it mean to be an ensemble?
To work together.
This term refers to what a character is REALLY thinking but not saying out loud.
What is subtext?
This is the process of becoming your character physically and mentally.
What is characterization?
This book helped students connect their personal experiences to history.
What is reading about the Holocaust (or Anne Frank)?
This decade brought hip-hop more into the mainstream and on TV and YouTube.
What is the 2000s?
When characters speak in a script for a movie, play or musical.
What is dialogue?
Name one of Uta Hagen’s Nine Questions used to analyze a character.
Who am I? Where am I? What do I want?
Name one thing you must include in a strong monologue performance.
Examples: clear emotion, strong voice, body language, memorization
What is one major theme of Freedom Writers?
Examples: empathy, change, education, unity
Name one dance style from any hip-hop decade we studied.
Name one real-life skill theatre helps you build.
confidence, communication, teamwork