How to SUCCEED in Oral Interpretation
- Come to class
- Bookmark the schedule; know what is coming up
- Have chapter read on assigned day
- Bring in Quiz questions
- Be on time to not miss quizzes
- Plan for all the performances
- Read all the assignments early in semester
- Manage your time well
- Plan your reading/writing for the week
- Take note of your performance dates as soon as they are posted
- With each chapter covered, ask your self how you can apply the material to your upcoming performance.
- Start preparing for
your performance early
- Understand the genre
- Choose the right material to fit the assignment
- Find your selection as soon as possible
- Choose good literature
- Use suggestions from the end of the chapters
- Avoid finding selections through the internet
- Does your selection exhibit universality, individuality and suggestion?
- Do a thorough Dramatistic Analysis
- Consider these others:
- Biographical (Wikipedia!)
- Reader Response
- Rhetorical (etc)
- Note all transitions: changes in time, place, thought, emotion, speaker, audience mode
- Read assignment carefully, especially about analysis
- Choose GOOD performance analogs
- Have definite answers to all the Dramatistic questions
- Who is telling the story?
- What is his/her relationship with the audience?
- Choose EXCITING performance analogs
- Consider "audience response"
- Exploit transitions
- Plan for dynamic use of voice, body and space
- Interact with the environment of the story
- Rehearse early, rehearse frequently.
- Remember the power of utterances
- Shape your performance for dynamics
- Have several rehearsal sessions over several days
- Remember to rehearse your introduction
- Time your selection carefully in performance
- Appear ready and confident on your performance day
- Set up your space before introducing
- Extemporize your introduction
- End introduction with the Title and Author
- Step back PAUSE and be still for a count of three
- Step into the opening with panache
- Be dynamic
- Keep eyes out of the book
- Highlight changes and transitions
- HOLD your ending
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How to FAIL Oral Interpretation
- Blow off class
- Be surprised by those you attend
- Don't read the chapters as due
- Act like you have no idea of what the next performance assignment is
- Live in the moment not for the future
- Forget when your performance is due
- Panic when you check and throw your performance together
- Find a selection on the internet
- Read it silently a few times
- Stand in front of the class and read your selection
- Arrive late, miss the quizzes
- Don't compose any quiz questions
- Plan your performance at the last minute
- Skim the assignment
- Choose the wrong genre of literature
- Don't choose good literature
- Use silly selections
- Use Children's literature
- Assume that because it has been published on the internet it must be good.
- Don't analyze thoroughly
- Write a plot summary instead
- What's a performance analog?
- Just wing it
- There is no need to rehearse
- Drag yourself to the front of the room
- Read your introduction
- Rush right into the material.
- Don't vary voice
- Don't move
- Don't look up
- Let the audience see you giving an oral reading, as monotone as possible
- End abruptly and undertime
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