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Detailed Lesson Plan

In MAPEH – Arts Grade 9

I. Objectives
At the end of the 60 minutes class, the students should be able to:

a. Distinguish the History of the Theatrical Forms and Their evolution of

Ancient Theater (Greek and Roman Theater),
b. Analyze the uniqueness of Greek Theater and Roman Theater,
c. Construct and design their own idea of a theater building.

II. Subject Matter

A. Topic: History of the Theatrical Forms and Evolution of Ancient Theater
(Greek and Roman Theater)
B. Reference: Music and Arts Learners Material, page 263
C. Materials: Power point presentation, Laptop
D. Skills: Visualization

III. Procedure

Teacher’s Activity Learner’s Activity

A. Motivation
Before we start on our lesson for today, what
have you observe on the pictures? Ma’am it’s a picture of a theater!
Very good!

Do you have any idea about theater? In theater, this is the place where the artist
Very good! performs a play.

B. Lesson Proper
Theater began from myth, ritual and ceremony.
Early society perceived connections between
actions performed by groups of people or leaders
to certain society and these actions moved from
habit, to tradition, to ritual, to ceremony due to
human desire and need for entertainment.

Theater means “Place of Seeing”, but it is more

than the buildings where performance take place.

Before we proceed to experience how to organize

and perform, we have to acquire on the important Okay Ma’am
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periods and events in theater history.

Ancients Theater
700 B.C.E – 410 C.E
(Greek and Roman Theater)

Greek Theater
It begun around 700 B.C with festivals honoring
their many Gods.
- Dionysus (Di-on-i-sus), the God of wine
and fertility, has a religious festival called
“The Cult of Dionysus” to honor him.
The tree well known Greek tradegy playwrights
are:
Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.

The Theater of ancient Greece consisted of three

types of drama: Tragedy, Comedy and the Satyr
play.
Tragedy is a compound of two Greek words,
tragos or “goat” and (ode) meaning “song”
referring to goats sacrificed to Dionysus before
performances, to goat-skin worn by the
performers.
In Greece, tragedy was the most admired type of
play. It dealt with tragic events and have an
unhappy ending, especially downfall of the main
character. Thespis was the first actor and
introduced the use of masks and was called the
“Father of Tragedy”

Comedy plays where derived from imitation;

there were no traces of their origin.
Aristophanes wrote of the comedy plays. Out of
these 11 plays, Lysistrata, a humorous tale about
a strong woman who led a female coalition to end
war in Greece survived. Cyclops was an
adventurous comedy by Euripides.

Satyr Play contains comic elements to lighten the

overall mood or a serious play with a happy
ending. The Satyr play was a short, lighthearted
tailpiece performed after each trilogy of the
tragedies. It is an ancient Greek form of tragic
comedy.
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It featured choruses of Satyrs, based on Greek

Mythology, and with pretended drunkness, bold
similarity (including Phallic props), tricks, and
slight jokes.
This featured a Half-man/Half-Goat knowns as
Satyrs.
The Greek Theater (Epidaurus)

Orchestra – a large circular or rectangular area at

the center part of the theater.
Theatron – viewing place on the slope of a hill
Skene – stage
Parados – side entrance

Roman Theater
The theater of ancient Rome started in the 3rd
Century BC. It had interesting forms such as
festival performances of street theater, acrobatic,
the staging of comedies of Plautus and the high-
verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca.
Hellenization – historical spread of Ancient
Greek Culture
Triumvir Pompey – 1st permanent (non-
wooden) theater in Rome.
Scanae fron – an elaborately decorated The theaters are big and It is a beautiful Place,
background theater Stage they are also historical Places in Greece and in
Rome.
C. Synthesis The Theater in Greece has a big influence in
What have you observe on the pictures of Roman Theater.
theater in Greek and Roman? Theater in Greece is Open- air structures.
The theater in Rome is, it has a columned
What are the differences in the picture of quadrangle and it is enclose.
the two theaters and their uniqueness?

D. Application
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Quiz:
1. This is mean “a place of seeing” where
performance take place.
2. This theater begun around 700 B.C with
festivals honoring their many Gods.
3. He is the God of Wine and Fertility
4. – 6 name the 3 well-known Greek Tragedy
playwrights.
7. it is a compound of two Greek words,
tragos or “goat” and (ode) meaning “song”
8. He was called the “Father of Tragedy”
9. It is a play derived from Imitation.
10. It is a tale about a strong woman who led
a coalition to end a war in Greece.
11. It is a Play contains comic elements to
lighten the overall mood or a serious play
with a happy ending.
12-15 Give the 4 parts of a Greek Theater
 What is the full name of your MAPEH
student teacher? 5points

IV. Evaluation
Create or draw on a coupon bond of your own design of a theater building
I will you give 20 minutes to finish your design.
Criteria

Visual Impact 10
Design 10
Neatness 10
Total 30 points

V. Assignment
1. Print a picture of Theater of Pompey
2. What is Medieval Theater and Renaissance Theater?

Prepared By:

Jenivee B. Farrales

Checked by:

Ms. Rose Ann S. Merto