ANIMALOPERA
- designed for
performance by live singers, as a puppet opera, or as mime - offers exciting
possibilities for EDUCATION
and OUTREACH. For this reason, the producers of
ANIMALOPERA
are putting together “ANIMALOPERA
in a BOX,” an
EDUCATIONAL GUIDE as part of the PRODUCTION
PACKAGE available for purchase by schools, opera companies,
and other organizations interested in musical education.
“ANIMALOPERA
in a BOX,” which may be purchased separately,
contains ideas for introducing ANIMALOPERA
to young people, connecting via a LESSON PLAN
to standards in various areas of the curriculum (e.g., language, geography,
history, health), classroom activities (e.g., making a paper theatre, creating
costumes, masks, finger puppets, etc.)
The LESSON PLAN, based on
the guide developed for the San Diego Opera Education and Outreach program,
involves instructional and other classroom activities before and after an
ANIMALOPERA
performance as outlined below:
| Preparing
for the Opera |
- Create a
Mind Map
| Before
the Opera |
After
the Opera |
| What
do you KNOW about opera? |
What
did you SEE? |
| What
do you want to LEARN about opera? |
What
did you HEAR? |
| What
do you expect to SEE? |
What
did you LEARN about opera? |
| What
do you expect to HEAR? |
How
was the opera the SAME or DIFFERENT from what you expected?
|
|
- Audience
Etiquette - proper behavior during an opera performance
|
| Literacy Block
|
- Reading
the story of ANIMALOPERA aloud
|
- Word study
- building an opera vocabulary
|
- Shared Reading
- reading and discussing the lyrics: style and structure, etc.
|
- Shared Writing
Activities - writing one's impressions of ANIMALOPERA, creating
original song, etc.
|
| Relating Opera
to the Curriculum |
- Language
Arts - the creative use of language through story-telling
|
- Geography
/ History / Social Science - the geographic origins and universality
of opera/music; jobs in music; the role of opera/music in the
community
|
- Biology
/ Health - the animal world, the common cold, the anatomy and
physics of singing, etc.
|
| Identifying other
Resources - bibliographic references, websites, recordings, videos |
|
- why not stage it for your schoolchildren?
