We begin class by reading Act II sc. ii, a short scene where Valentine says good-bye to Julia. There is a lot of ambiguity in this scene with the exchange of rings and Julia exiting in the middle of Proteus' good bye. I ask students to pay particular attention to the verbs in the scene and determine what physical actions they might suggest.
I instruct students to partner up and to add physical actions to the scene the way actors might play the scene out.
We read through the scene and then I give the students a printed version of the scene.
Students partner up and I give them the printed scene. I remind them that they can add as much action as they want, but they can't add speech. I give them twenty minutes to work and as they work I walk around the room and give them assistance.
Once students are done we read some the actions aloud and then we watch the same scene from a YouTube video of Green Stage Shakes (start video at 31:40).