Compiled is a detailed 12-day unit of Basic (Beginning) Acting Skills with activities, assignments, examples, and grading rubrics. Lesson plans include: Freeing Inhibitions, Stage Directions and Blocking, Objectives and Tactics, Character Development, Implementing Physicality, Vocal Use and Variety, Connection to Breath, Stage Pictures and Levels, and Being Natural Onstage. Easily adaptable to either the middle school or high school setting.