Cross-Genre Translation: “Elements of Tableau” to Recipe for “Top-Notch Tableaux”

For my cross-genre translation, I adapted my theatre mini lesson on the elements of tableaux to be a recipe card. This conversion actually worked extremely well, and as it turns out, could be a useful tool for my classroom. There are a lot of drama activities and concepts that would translate well to a recipe card format (eg. large scale concepts like “Creating Character” to more specific micro-skills like selecting acting tactics) and having these cards available for students to reference in class could be a valuable learning and review resource for students when they’re working!

I think a recipe card could even work well as a graphic organizer if ever I wanted the students to take their own notes in class (which is uncommon in drama). They could build their own “Drama Recipe Box” with categories like “games,” “warm-ups,” or “creation tools,”  which would give them a personalized, visual representation of the drama repertoire they had built throughout the course.

Top-Notch Tableaux Recipe Card

Update: Someone mentioned I should throw up the template. Here’s the pdf file — I tried to get up the pages file but it’s not supported by the blog. Feel free to email me if you’d like it.

Concept Recipe Card Template

Because I’m fancy I used a font called “Buttercup” for the template text.

If you’d like it, you can download it here: https://www.dafont.com/buttercup.font

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