Activity Lesson Plans

Introduction
Students have read about mime, pantomime, and clowning. Before they complete the concentration activity, you may wish to have students experiment with makeup and costumes to become the various types of clowns and mimes they read about in the chapter and to practice clowning and miming while in character.

Lesson Description
Students will complete a concentration activity to reinforce the terms of the chapter. For each statement students will search a group of definition cards to find the correct match. Students will choose the definition that best matches each term.

Instructional Objectives
1. Students will understand the meanings of vocabulary terms.
2. Students will match the correct definition to each of the chapter's vocabulary terms.

Student Web Activity Answers

1. auguste clown: a rodeo or circus clown
2. character clown: a type of clown who uses makeup and clothes to represent a specific person or image
3. clowning: the art of entertaining others by provoking laughter
4. grotesque whiteface: a type of whiteface clown whose makeup has exaggerated features
5. mime: the silent art of using body movements to create an illusion of reality
6. mimesis: to imitate an activity
7. neat whiteface: a type of whiteface clown whose makeup is in proportion and looks normal in size
8. pantomime: the use of mime techniques, acting without words, to tell a story
9. pantomimus: all gestures used in support of a theme
10. whiteface clown: a clown whose makeup is an all-white face with features of black and red added for detail

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