Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Video Music Assignment - March 29, 2016













Tuesday, March 29th:

Assignment:
Music video
Break into groups of five
Choose a three minute song that is CLEAN! Devoid of curse words and inappropriate words and subject matter.
The students then create a three minute music video where they lip-sync and either choreograph a dance and/or act out the story of the song. 

Group 1: 
"Freaking Problem" (?)
Delicia, Arturo, Natalie, Nelli, Jelani

Group 2: 
Justin Bieber - "Sorry"
Gia, Joan, Tyron, Kimberly 

Group 3:
Paramour - “You’re the Only Exception”
Angie, Xithlalli, Marc, Kimberly, Chelsea

Group 4:
Bruno Mars – “The Lazy Song”
Michelle, Ki, Mayleth, Audrey, Oscar

Group 5: 
Ed Shearer - "Don't"
Sadie, Daryl, Thailer, Stephanie, Shakhina
Group 6:
Rihanna - “4 or 5 Seconds”
Reyna, Leslie, Kristina, Johan 

Group 7: 
Lana Del Rey - "Summer Time Sadness" 
Rita, Katherine, Stepan, Jay-nice

 Wednesday, March 30th: 
 

Guest Artists:
Paul
Cindy
Groups worked on their music videos
Worked with:
Group 5: Sadie, Lynn, Thailer, Stephanie, Shakhina
Changed song to “Uptown Funk”
Gave them outline of music video

Group 7: Rita, Katherine, Stepan, Jay-nice
Changed song to “Hello”
Gave them outline of music video

Group 1: Jelani, Delicia, Nellie Natalie, Arturo
Argument with Jelani over choice of inappropriate song. Gave them 30 minutes to come up with another song. They couldn’t. I gave them “I Was Made to Love Her” by Stevie Wonder. Jelani pouted. Then they wanted to do a Michael Jackson song, I said no. They pouted some more.
Gave them the outline of the music video.

Paul and Cindy worked with groups two, three, four, and six

Thursday, March 31st: 
Present the Music Videos

Group 5:
Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Sadie, Thailor, Audrey – EC, Lynn

Group 1:
Stevie Wonder – “I Was Made to Love Her”
Jelani, Dalicia, Natalie, Arturo, Nellie

Group 2:
Justin Bieber – “Sorry”
Kimberly, Gia, Tyron, Joan, James

Finish tomorrow
 
 Friday,  April 1st:
Minimum Day! 

Music Video:
Bruno Mars – “Lazy”
Michelle, Audrey, Oscar, Ki, Mayleth


 

March 28, 2016 - April 1, 2016 Weekly Agenda for World Theatre Class

Tuesday, March 29th:

Assignment:
Music video
Break into groups of five
Choose a three minute song that is CLEAN! Devoid of curse words and inappropriate words and subject matter.
The students then create a three minute music video where they lip-sync and either choreograph a dance and/or act out the story of the song.


Group 1: 
"Freaking Problem" (?)
Nelli, Dalicia, Arturo, Natalie, Jelani

Group 2:
 Justin Bieber – “Sorry”
 Gia, Tyron, Kimberly, Joan,

Group 3:
Paramour - “You’re the Only Exception”
Angie, Xithlalli, Marc, Kimberly, Chelsea

Group 4:
Bruno Mars – “The Lazy Song”
Michelle, Ki, Mayleth, Audrey, Oscar

Group 5:
Ed Shearer – “Don’t”
Sadie, Daryl, Thailer, Stephanie, Shakhina

Group 6:
Rihanna - “4 or 5 Seconds”
Reyna, Leslie, Kristina, Johan

Group 7:
Lana Del Rey – “Summer Time Sadness”
Stepan, Katherine, Jay-nice, Rita


Wednesday, March 30th: 


Guest Artists:
Paul
Cindy
Groups worked on their music videos
Worked with:
Group 5: Sadie, Lynn, Thailer, Stephanie, Shakhina
Changed song to “Uptown Funk”
Gave them outline of music video

Group 7: Rita, Katherine, Stepan, Jay-nice
Changed song to “Hello”
Gave them outline of music video

Group 1: Jelani, Delicia, Nellie Natalie, Arturo
Argument with Jelani over choice of inappropriate song. Gave them 30 minutes to come up with another song. They couldn’t. I gave them “I Was Made to Love Her” by Stevie Wonder. Jelani pouted. Then they wanted to do a Michael Jackson song. I said no. They pouted some more.
Gave them the outline of the music video.

Paul and Cindy worked with groups two, three, four, and six

Tomorrow, rehearse for five or ten minutes, then present.

Thursday, March 31st:  

Present the Music Videos
Group 5:
Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”
Sadie, Thailor, Audrey – EC, Lynn

Group 1:
Stevie Wonder – “I Was Made to Love Her”
Jelani, Dalicia, Natalie, Arturo, Nellie

Group 2:
Justin Bieber – “Sorry”
Kimberly, Gia, Tyron, Joan, James

Finish tomorrow

Friday,  April 1st:
Minimum Day! 

Music Video:
Bruno Mars – “Lazy”
Michelle, Audrey, Oscar, Ki, Mayleth


 


Wednesday, March 16, 2016

March 14, 2016 - March 18, 2016 Weekly Agenda for World Theatre Class

Monday, March 14, 2016
Guest artists:
Alicia
Melissa

Break into acting groups and rehearse for twenty minutes.
Rehearsed with:
Shopping
Lynn
Xithllali

Scenes:
Redid “Student Counselor”
Gia, Katharine, Arturo

“Teacher’s Assistant”
Dalicia
Shakhina
Kristina
Tyron
Rita

Bell rang – redo tomorrow!

Tuesday, March 15th: 
 Presented scenes today:

Teacher’s Assistant
Dalicia, Shakhina, Tryon, Rita, Kristina

The Children’s Hour

Mayleth, Angie, Natalie

Wednesday, March 16th: 
 Presentation of Scenes:

“Show and Tell” 
Mark - did not know lines
Nellie
Ki
Kimberly 
Johan 

“The Dog Ate My Homework” 
Stephan
Jelania

Thailer

Thursday, March 17th:

Guest Artist:
Melissa and Cyndi
Final Presentations of the First Scenes:
“A Fine Line Between Love and Hate”
Joan, Sadie, Oscar, Barajas

“Betraying the Blues”
Jay-nice, Audrey, Leslie

“When We Grow Up”
Michele, Reyna, Chelsea

“Shopping”
Lynn, Xithlalli


Friday, March 18th: 

Theatre Games:
A Night in the Museum
Murder on the Foggy Streets of London 1890's




Monday, March 7, 2016

March 7, 2016 - March 11, 2016 Weekly Agenda

Monday, March 7th: 
No one here due to cold and rain.
Did exercise on “Subtext”
First scenario:
Family sitting around table, eating, and discussing their day.  No subtext.
Jelani, Dalicia, Nellie, Stephanie
Second scenario:
Subtext:
Parents getting a divorce, one daughter pregnant, other daughter – straight “A” student accused of cheating.

Second scenario:
Friends sitting around at lunch, eating, and discussing their day. No subtext.
One student’s mom losing her job, another student’s mom very sick, another student has been caught with drugs and is awaiting his parents to pick him up and possible expulsion,

Lynn, Gia, Michelle, Thailer

Tuesday, March 8th: 
Shortened Day!
Subtext:
Mean teacher and a sick student
Ki and Audrey
Mean teacher and a student who really has to go to the bathroom
Kristina and Sadie
A teacher who is waiting for a text message regarding her mother’s impending death, and a student whose crush is waiting for her.
Shakhina and Lynn

A student who wants to break up with his girlfriend. His girlfriend wants him to ask her to the prom.

Wednesday, March 9th: 
Guest Artist: 
Alicia
Subtext: 
A student does not know how to read and tries to hide it from the teacher, who also had issues with dyslexia: 
Thailer and Rita 
Subtext: 
Two students are brought in by the dean for drugs. One student has planted drugs on the other; the other has snitched on the student for drugs. The dean does recreational drugs on the weekends and feels conflicted about it. 
Audrey, Gia, Dalicia 

Today worked with "The Dog Ate My Homework"
Stephan
Jelani
Thailor 

Alicia worked with "Show and Tell" 

All students broke into their acting groups and rehearsed. We will begin presenting on Friday, March 11th. 

Thursday, March 10th: 
Divide class into their acting groups. 
Finished working with "The Dog Ate My Homework"
Stepan
Jelani
Thailor 

Started working with "Shopping" 
Xithlalli
Lynn 
Finish tomorrow