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BEFORE provides teachers engaging, ready-to-implement classroom activities that explore the themes and art form of the show prior to travelling to 42nd Street. Utilize this tool in order to integrate the content of the production into your curriculum in a hands-on experiential way, while building student anticipation and overall impact for the upcoming performance. This section also includes Creativity Pages that provide students the opportunity to personally connect to the show content.

MAKING CONNECTIONS TO LEARNING STANDARDS New Victory School tool Resource Guides align with the Common Core State Standards, New York State Learning Standards and New York City Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts. We believe that these standards support both the high quality instruction and deep engagement that The New Victory Theater strives to achieve in its arts education practice.

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COMMON COREReading: Standard 3Writing: Standard 3; Standard 4Speaking and Listening: Standard 1; Standard 2; Standard 5 Language: Standard 1; Standard 2; Standard 3

NEW YORK STATE STANDARDS

The Arts: Standard 1; Standard 4English Language Arts: Standard 1; Standard 4

BLUEPRINT FOR THE ARTS

Theater: Theater Making; Developing Theater Literacy; Making Connections

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1. Review the list of characters with the students. Brainstorm a list of adjectives they associate with each character.

2. Divide students into groups. Assign one student in each group the role of the sculptor, while the rest of the group takes on the role of the “clay.” The sculptor’s task is to create a family portrait out of the “clay,” sculpting each character from Twelfth Night. Ask the sculptor to keep the status of these characters in mind (e.g. Where would they stand in relation to each other? What do their facial expressions suggest? How high up or low to the ground would they be?).

3. Once the portraits are complete, ask each group to share their picture, one at a time, for the others to see.

4. Lead the class in a discussion about their creations: How were the pictures different? What did you notice about the your classmates’ choices? What do the pictures tell you about the power dynamics and status of the characters in Twelfth Night?

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In this series of activities, your students will get a chance to explore the characters and plot of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in advance of seeing Tim Crouch’s retelling of the story from Malvolio’s perspective.

Read the TWELFTH NIGHT IN A NUTSHELL synopsis (on Page 11) with your students. (If you read Shakespeare’s full Twelfth Night with your students, use the original text in place of the provided synopsis for this activity.)

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1. As a full class or in small groups, brainstorm a list of the five most exciting or interesting moments or events from the story synopsis.

2. Imagine each of these events as photographs. Create captions to describe each image. (e.g. ‘Viola and Sebastian’s ship is wrecked by the storm’).

3. Divide the students into five groups. Assign each group one of the events from the list.

4. Ask groups to brainstorm what would be in the photograph of the event.

5. Instruct each group to create the ‘photograph’ of the event with their bodies as they imagine it.

6. Once the groups have created their physical images, sequence them and present them in order.

7. Lead the class in a discussion about their images: What interesting choices did the groups make? Were you able to understand the whole story from the different images? What stood out to you?

8. Now, discuss how the story might look through Malvolio’s eyes. How would the photographs change? Would the characters look any different, or would the situations change based on Malvolio’s experience of the events?

ACTIvITy 2: SCRApBOOK

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EXTENSION WRITING ACTIvITy: Ask each student to choose a character from the synopsis who they are most interested in exploring further. Instruct the students to write a letter from this character to another, written in the first person. They can reference the synopsis, but they may also invent details from their own imaginations to fill out the story. Finally, pair students up or put them in small groups and ask them to read their letters aloud to each other.

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MALvOLIO’S WORLD: SCRApBOOK• TweLfTh NIghT IN AN NuTSHELL

In this series of activities, your students will get a chance to explore the characters and plot of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in advance of seeing Tim Crouch’s retelling of the story from Malvolio’s perspective.

Read the TWELFTH NIGHT IN A NUTSHELL synopsis (on Page 11) with your students. (If you read Shakespeare’s full Twelfth Night with your students, use the original text in place of the provided synopsis for this activity.)

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The Duke ORSINO Lady OLIVIA. OLIVIA does not ORSINO. ORSINO is sad.

A comes through, and a (carrying brother and sister VIOLA and SEBASTIAN)

is swept to the shore of Illyria.

VIOLA survives the ! She believes her brother SEBASTIAN has died.VIOLA dresses as a man, and disguises herself using the name “CESARIO.”“CESARIO” gets a job as the servant of ORSINO.

Soon…

“CESARIO” falls in with ORSINO, and OLIVIA falls in with “CESARIO” – and everyone still thinks that “CESARIO” is a man!

Meanwhile…Everyone hates MALVOLIO, who tries to keep order as the steward of OLIVIA’s .TOBY BELCH (OLIVIA’s uncle) and his mischievous friends (MARIA, ANDREW, and FESTE) decide to prank

MALVOLIO by writing a fake to him. They pretend the is written by OLIVIA, asking

MALVOLIO to prove his love to her by doing some crazy things like wearing around town.

The prank works - MALVOLIO acts like a madman hoping it will win over OLIVIA, and instead everyone thinks he’s crazy, and they lock him up!

Suddenly…SEBASTIAN returns (…remember the ?) and falls in love with OLIVIA. She thinks SEBASTIAN is “CESARIO” (because SEBASTIAN looks a lot like his sister VIOLIA – who is still disguised as “CESARIO”).

Finally…

SEBASTIAN and his sister are reunited, and VIOLA reveals her true identity.

Then, everyone gets married.

SEBASTIAN OLIVIA, ORSINO VIOLA, and even TOBY BELCH MARIA.

They let Malvolio out of the madhouse and reveal the prank that was played on him. Everyone lives happily ever after……except Malvolio who vows revenge as everyone celebrates!

The play I, MALVOLIO tells the story of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night from the perspective of Malvolio. How do you think he’ll tell this story?

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Illyria…