Last week I gave you a Monologue Evaluation Sheet to share with your students. Click below for a completely different monologue to use in class!
What makes a good monologue? What criteria do you give to your students? Before students start writing their own monologue, it’s important for them to be able to identify and assess the elements of a good one. Have them evaluate existing monologues.
One Minute Monologues; One minute monologues are not easy to find. If you have to perform a short monologue for an audition or class, you need to find a one minute monologue that tells a story, conveys emotions and keeps the audience interested. Here we have a collection of original and interesting one minute monologues for men and women. . Dividing the monologue into beats will help with both acting and memorization by dividing it into smaller and more accessible, performable segments. O Divide the sample monologue into beats as a class. O Assign a verb (tactic) to each beat. Student reads the monologue again, taking beat changes and tactics into account.
Start off with a discussion of What makes a good monologue? See what your students think. Ask them to identify the criteria for a good monologue and come up with five questions to assess that criteria.
Gifox 2 0 2 percent. For me, there are three elements that should be included in every monologue:
- a reason to speak. Why is the character talking at length?
- a character specific language. Who is the character and how do they speak?
- a journey. Where does the monologue start and end? Is there a journey from one emotion to another?
At the end of the post, download a newmonologue for your students to evaluate. I’ve included it in two forms: with questions and without. That way if your students come up with their own list of evaluation questions, they can still apply them to the monologue.
Exercise
- Discuss with students What makes a good monologue.
- Either have them establish their own criteria and questions or hand out the Monologue Evaluation Sheet
- Have students work independently or in pairs. Read the monologue and answer the questions.
- Students assess the monologue and answer the final question: Is this a good monologue? Why or why not?
- Students discuss their findings with the class. What’s the consensus?
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