1. GENERAL HEADING: Voice and Body Exercises

2. TITLE OF EXERCISE: "Throwing Your Line"

3. GOALS: To develop students' awareness of the importance of the last word of each line and to "physicalize" the language.

4. NUMBER OF STUDENTS: Any number

5. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES: None

6. CLASS TIME NEEDED: Five minutes or more, depending upon students' endurance.

7. STEP-BY-STEP DESCRIPTION:

Using any sonnet, or any verse passage from the plays, the group, speaking in unison, reads the passage one line at a time, physically throwing the final word with their arms.

The exercise is continued, with variations: the final word is kicked into the center of the circle, then punched, then shouted as the speakers jump on the final word.

8. POINTS FOR OBSERVATION, DISCUSSION: Importance of the final word in a line of verse; the value of feeling the language physically; associating it with one's musculature.

9. SOURCE/REFERENCE: Audrey Stanley, Co-Director of the Institute, UC-Santa Cruz

10. ADDITIONAL READING: N.A.

11. VARIATIONS: Any verse passage from Shakespeare may be used.