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The Senior Showcase

Twelfth graders learn to prepare a senior showcase — choosing material that shows their range, preparing, rehearsing, programming, and performing — the capstone that showcases years of theatrical growth.

Grade 12Capstone55 minutes1 class periodArtistic ProcessExplicit teaching4 StandardsNCAS
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Plan a showcase.
  • ✓Choose material with range.
  • ✓Order the steps.
  • ✓Perform with confidence.
Essential Question

Your theater journey culminates in a senior showcase — a set of pieces that show who you’ve become as a performer. How do you prepare one?

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Interactive Task
Put in Order · Interactive

Order the Showcase Steps

Project this and have students put the senior-showcase steps in order.

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The Lesson · Artistic Process (Warm-Up · Explore · Rehearse · Perform · Reflect)

55 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

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Warm-Up — Your Culmination

6 min

Your theater journey culminates in a senior showcase — how do you prepare?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Show a showcase program.
  • Ask how it was built.
  • Warm up.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Look.
  • Wonder.
  • Warm up.
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Explore — Senior Showcase

13 min

Students explore.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to Order the Showcase Steps.
  • Order them.
  • Note choosing range.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Order.
  • Note it.
  • Name.
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Rehearse — Rehearse

15 min

Students rehearse.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Choose two pieces.
  • Prepare them.
  • Rehearse with feedback.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Choose.
  • Prepare.
  • Rehearse.
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Perform — Perform

13 min

Students perform.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Perform a piece.
  • Refine it.
  • Give critique.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Perform it.
  • Refine.
  • Critique.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students respond.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name the first step.
  • Explain choosing range.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name it.
  • Explain it.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the National Core Arts Standards (Theatre, HS Advanced).

NCAS
TH:Pr5.1.HSIII

Prepare a showcase.

NCAS
TH:Pr6.1.HSIII

Present a showcase.

NCAS
TH:Pr4.1.HSIII

Select and interpret pieces.

NCAS
TH:Cr3.1.HSIII

Refine performances.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Showcase-step cards.
  • Sentence frame: “First ___, then ___.”
  • Use a program example.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with choose and perform.
  • Order two at a time.
  • Pick one piece.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Build a full showcase.
  • Contrast two roles.
  • Rehearse the whole set.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Projector / board
  • 📜Audition pieces
  • 💻Order the Showcase Steps
  • 🎭A performance space
  • ✏️Pens
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

showcasea set of performance piecesrangeyour variety as a performerrepertoirethe pieces you performprogramthe ordered set of piecesprepareto ready a pieceinterpretto shape a performancerehearseto practicecapstonea culminating project
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Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
What is a good FIRST step in preparing a showcase?
Choose material that shows your range.
QUESTION 2
What does it mean to program a showcase?
To order the pieces into a strong sequence.
QUESTION 3
What is a senior showcase?
A capstone performance showing a performer’s range.

Reflect: showcase your growth.

Have students choose two contrasting pieces that show their range for a showcase. A printable showcase sheet is in the Arts library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

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Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: capstone, interpret, prepare, program, range, rehearse, repertoire, showcase
  1. to practice
  2. the pieces you perform
  3. to shape a performance
  4. to ready a piece
  5. your variety as a performer
  6. the ordered set of pieces
  7. a set of performance pieces
  8. a culminating project

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. What is a good FIRST step in preparing a showcase?
  2. What does it mean to program a showcase?
  3. What is a senior showcase?
Answer key — Part A: 1) rehearse · 2) repertoire · 3) interpret · 4) prepare · 5) range · 6) program · 7) showcase · 8) capstone
Part B: 1) Choose material that shows your range. 2) To order the pieces into a strong sequence. 3) A capstone performance showing a performer’s range.