Monday, January 25, 2016

January 25, 2016 - January 29, 2016 Weekly Agenda














Monday, January 25th: 

Break into groups and rehearse their scenes for presentations. 

Worked with: Sadie, Oscar, Tyrone, Stephanie, Mayleth
Phrase: “Get out of my face!”
1st Scene: Sadie wants to know if Oscar is a player.
2nd Scene: Oscar wants to play but no one does because he is too little.
3rd Scene: A cooking show. A temperamental chef, Tyron, fires all the other equally tempestuous chefs, and promotes Oscar, the custodian to top chef.

Performed today, but didn’t finish the third scene:
Marc, Ki, Shakhina, Arturo, Angie – “Just kidding! No offense!”
1.     Truth or Dare – girls keep calling 911 as a prank
2.     Shakhina is performing in a talent show
3.     King and Queen are abusing their servants by making them do pointless things.


Tuesday, January 26th: 


Redo:
“Just kidding! No offense!”
Truth or Dare: three obnoxious kids call the fire department as a prank.
Annoying King: the king is abusing his servants by making them do pointless, mindless tasks.
Angie – D
Arturo – D
Shakhina – A
Marc – A
Ki – C

“Get out of my face!”
Sadie wants to know if Oscar is really interested. No, he’s just a player. He flirts with everyone!
Little Oscar wants someone to play with, but everyone in his family is too busy!
A temperamental chef, Tyron, fires the equally temperamental contestants,
Stephanie, Myleth, and Sadie,  on a cooking show and promotes Oscar, the janitor, to chef.
Sadie – A
Tyron – B
Stephanie – B
Myleth – B
Oscar – A/B

Wednesday, January 27th: 
Break into groups to rehearse.

Gave Self-Reflection Sheets to those who have already performed. This is due at the end of class.

"Can You Not?"
Rita, Nellie, Audrey, Xithlalli, Jay-Nice
1. Getting Ready for Prop
2. In the Van on the Way to Vegas
3. In the Restaurant
Had props!

"Was That a Threat?"
Chelsea, Thailor, Lynn, Dalicia, Kristina
Ex-Friends Meeting at Santa Monica Pier
"Gang Initiation" - undone by a bee and the parental curfew
Bratty Kid in a Toy Store
Creative Use of curtain and the Jack and the Beanstalk Story

Thursday, January 28th: 
Students who have done scenes are writing their reflections while other students rehearse.

James, Joan, Audrey, Katherine, Kimberly
“I already told you!”
Three interconnected stories: a crazy sub takes over a class.
1st scene: Sub becomes irrational when students correct him when he massacres their names. The cute girl plays along when sub hopelessly massacres hers.
2nd scene: Students are clearly cheating on a test. Crazy sub fails all of them except the cute girl.
3rd scene: Joan breaks up with the cute girl because everyone thinks she’s having an affair with the crazy sub.  Funny!

Gia, Leslie, Michelle, Jelani (filling in for Tyler)
"It doesn’t matter!"
First Scene: Gia breaks up with Jelani for lying to her about not going to party.

Second Scene: Dad tries to discipline bratty daughter.
Third Scene: Jelani goes crazy when two girls bump into him at a mall.

Friday, January 29th: 

Emotional Cocktail:
Shakhina, Jelani, Tyler, Gia, Audrey, Joan

Stepan, James, Sadie, Lynn, Arturo, Michelle

Kristina, Thailor, Rita, Tyrone, Xithlalli, Jay-Nice

Dalicia, Katherine, Natalie, Stephanie, Johan, Kimberly, Marc


Rock Star!




Tuesday, January 19, 2016

January 19, 2016 - January 22, 2016













Tuesday, January 19th: 

 Groups for Three Scenes and a Phrase

Had conference with each group regarding the structure of the three scenes; offered encouragement and suggestions:
Group 1 – on stage  - “Can you please not?”
Barajas
Nelli
Xithlalli
Jaynice
Rita

Group 2 – first two rows by the window – “Where’s my shoe?”
Stepan
Reyna
Johan
Natalie
Jelani

Group 3 – rows 4 and 5 by the white board -
Audrey
James
Katherine
Kimberly
Joan

Group 4 – rows 7 and 8 by the window
Shakhina
Ki Blackwell
Arturo
Mark
Angie

Group 5 – rows 9 and 10 by the white board – “Get out of my face!”
Sadie
Stephanie
Tyrone
Mayleth
Oscar

Group 6 – rows 11 and 12 by the window – “Was that a threat?”
Kristina
Dalicia
Chelsea
Thailer
Lynn

Group 7 – last two rows by the back door of 503 – “It really doesn’t matter!”
Tyler
Gia
Michelle
Leslie

You must have three scenes
You must have a phrase of at least four words
You must use the phrase in all three scenes
You must use the phrase differently in each scene.
Everyone must participate
Everyone must be in at least two scenes
Everyone must have lines in all of their scenes.

I need:
A list of everyone in your group
Your phrase of at least four words
An outline of each of the three scenes

Wednesday, January 20th: 

Break into groups to work on scenes:

Worked with:

James, Kimberly, Katherine, Joan, Audrey – "I told you that already"
Through line: Crazy sub and terrorized kids in all three scenes

Jelanie, Natalie, Stepan, Reyna, Johan – "Where’s my shoe?"
Worked through first scene

Thursday, January 21st: 
Worked with:
Kristina, Dalicia, Chelsea, Thailor, Lynn – “Was that a threat?”
Worked with them on two of the three scenes
Santa Monica Pier – ex friends meet
“Gangsta Iniation” – interrupted by a bee
Need to work on the third scene

Worked with:
Shakhina, Ki, Arturo, Mark, Angie  - “Just kidding! No offense!”

1st Scene: kids playing “Truth or Dare” call 911; the firemen arrive and warn the kids. The kids decide to pop some popcorn while continuing to play “Truth or Dare”  and the dare is to call 911 again. The firemen arrive, find out it’s another joke,  say this time they are going to fine the parents and they leave. The kids have forgotten about the pop corn and now there is a fire going in the kitchen. They call the firemen but the firemen think it’s a joke again and don’t respond.

Friday, January 22nd:


Guest Artist:
Melissa

Worked with:
Jelani, Stepan, Reyna, Natalie, Johan – “Where’s my shoe?”
1st Scene:
Jelanie looking for shoe. Stepan had it all along
2nd Scene:
Jelanie’s shoe stolen by Johan. Jelanie decks him and gets it back. Stepan makes fun of Johan for getting decked.
3rd Scene:
Obnoxious parents take 12 year old to restaurant. Parents treat kid like a baby. Kid rebels and goes to “Sky Zone” to get away from parents. Chef steals his shoes. Serves the shoes as food to parents.


"Where's my shoe?"performed their scene today!





Monday, January 11, 2016

January 11, 2016 - January 15, 2016 Weekly Schedule for World Theatre Class

Monday, January 11th:

Sign students in.
Theatre Games:
Sing off
Mosaic

Tuesday, January 12th: 
Shortened Day

Assign seats
Pass out and go over class syllabus


Wednesday, January 13th: 

Two guest artists:
Derrick
Chris

Theatre Games:
Divide the class into two groups:
Zip-Zap-Zum
Categories
Rhyming Game
Do You like Your Neighbor?

Freeze Tag

Thursday, January 14th: 


Gave the following information to the students regarding casting for a movie:

Guest artist today:
Chris Boykin
Theatre Games:
Kitty Wants a Corner
Do You like Your Neighbor?
Pass the Clap

Palm Trees

Friday, January 15th: 


Divide kids in to seven groups of five for “Three Scenes and a Phrase”

4th Period Groups for Three Scenes for a Phrase
Group 1 – on stage
Barajas
Nelli
Xithlalli
Jaynice
Rita

Group 2 – first two rows by the window
Stepan
Reyna
Johan
Natalie
Jelani

Group 3 – rows 4 and 5 by the white board
Audrey
James
Katherine
Kimberly
Joan

Group 4 – rows 7 and 8 by the window
Shakhina
Ki Blackwell
Arturo
Mark
Angie

Group 5 – row 9 and 10 by the white board
Sadie
Stephanie
Tyrone
Mayleth
Oscar

Group 6 – row 11 and 12 by the window
Kristina
Dalicia
Chelsea
Thailer
Lynn

Group 7 – last two rows by the back door of 503
Tyler
Gia
Michelle
Leslie

You must have three scenes
You must have a phrase of at least four words
You must use the phrase in all three scenes
You must use the phrase differently in each scene.
Everyone must participate
Everyone must be in at least two scenes
Everyone must have lines in all of their scenes.

I need:
A list of everyone in your group
Your phrase of at least four words
An outline of each of the three scenes

Christopher Swanson recruited students to appear as extras in the film "Don't Take No for an Answer!" for the Video Production Class: 
Dalicia, Kristina, Natalie, Tyler, Shakhina, Audrey, Sadie
The above students will get extra credit.