December 11, 2017 - December 15, 2017

Monday, December 11th:

Rehearsed monologues today!

Julia Masari – already memorized – “It Pays to Be Green”

Julia Mendez – helper

“Jeopardy”

Julia Mendez

Isiss

Harris – “Last Night in London”

Jade – helper

Lizbeth – “Friendship”

Taylor – helper

Taylor – “Circle A”

Allen – helper

Allen – “Too Young for This, Too Old for That”

Giselle – “You are What You Wear”

Iday – helper

Tuesday, December 12th: 

Rehearsed with:

Bryan – “Too Young for This, Too Old for That”

Helper – Chris

Vidal – “ T.V. or T.V.”

Helper – Carlos

Christopher – “Don’t Eat Peas with a Knife” 

Wednesday, December 13th: 

Finals: 

Presentation of Scenes and Monologues: 

Carlos – “Another City”

December 4, 2017 - December 8, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, December 4th: 
Presentations of Scenes:
Finished the last scene out of three
Vidal, Julian - absent, Harris, Taylor, Idaly
"I gotta pea!"

Melany, Alondra, Allen, Magdalena, Christ
"Just Get Over It!"
Squabbling Siblings
Test Results
Girl Going Out on Date

Bianca, Madeline, Julia, Jay, Isis, Jade
"Why Are You Here?"
Two girls ditch guy who asked both of them out on a date.
The Maury Povitch Show
Child rejected by birth mother

Tuesday, December 5th: 

Improvs:

Thanksgiving Disaster:

Idaly, Jade, Julia, Melany, Brian, Giselle, Hilaryd

Elves with Attitude:

Allan, Julian, Jestice, Bianca, Madeline, Adolfo, Dennis, Allisa

Christmas Morning Meltdown:

Issis, Harris, Jay, Allen, Julia, Lizabeth

Wednesday, December 6th: 

Passed out scenes and monologues to students:

Bryan – Too Young for This, Too Old for That

Lizbeth A. – Friendship

Vidal - T.V. or Not T.V.

Salamata – Juliet, Revisited

Jay – Romeo and Juliet

Madeline –Shopping 
Julian - Dear Dad

Hilaryd – Are We There, Yet?

Gisselle – You are What You Wear

Adolfo – Dear Chuck

Harris –Last Night in London

Jasmine – Shopping

Lizbeth L. – Summer Vacation

Taylor – Central A.

Dennis – Silence is Golden

Alondra – Self written “Think of Me”

Julia – It Pays to Be Green 
Julia Mendez - Jeopardy 

Allen – Not Yet an Adult

Idaly – Um, Good

Magdalena – Shakespeare is Bizarre

Allisa – Lost

Melany – Being a Good Student is Really Cool

Chris – Runaways

Bianca –Who Cares?

Carlos – Another City

Jade – Is That Your Real Sister?

Issis - Jeopardy

Thursday, December 7th: 
Theatre Games:
Murder!
First Presentation of Monologues: 
Adolfo - "Dear Chuck" 
Jay - "Romeo and Juliet" 
Dennis - "Silence is Golden" 
Jay as helper 
Julia Massari - "It Pays to Be Green"
Julia Mendez as helper  

Friday, December 8th: 

Students filled out the request form for the spring semester

Theatre Game:

Cocktail Party

Jestice, Harris, Jay, Julia, Dennis, Madeline

Assigned more scenes to students:

Julian – “Dear Dad”

Bianca – “Who Cares?”

Julia – “Jeopardy”

Issis – “Jeopardy”

Harris – “Last Night in London”

 

November 27, 2017 - December 1, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, November 27th:

Thanksgiving Improv:

Bianca, Jestice, Lizbeth A., Allen, Chris, Alondra, Julia

Students break into their groups

Worked with group #4:

“It’s Not My Fault”

Salamata, Hilaryd, Jestice, Dennis

1.     16 year old daughter pregnant

2.     Doctor tells them daughter lost baby

3.     Doctor tells them she was wrong – she didn’t

Worked with groups #5:

“Just Get Over It”

Lizbeth L., Magdalena, Melany, Christopher (gave Allen a time out)

1.     Students squabbling over remote

Tuesday, November 28th: 

Thanksgiving Improv!

Adolpho, Harris, Allen, Giselle, Madeline, Lizbeth A, Julia

Worked with:

Group 5:  Lizbeth L., Magdalena, Melany, Christopher

“Just Get Over It!”

1.     Squabbling siblings over the remote 2. Failed test 3. One girl getting ready for a date.

First group performed:

“That’s terrible! Do it again!”

Bryan, Jay, Giselle, Jasmine, Julia

1.     America’s Got Talent

2.     Embarrassed family

3.     Producer giving pep talk – A

Wednesday, November 29th:
Restorative Justice Session with Ms. Walker

Thursday, November 30th: 
In the auditorium 
Please observe the rehearsal and answer the following questions: 

Friday, December 1st: 

Worked with 2nd group: 
Lizbeth, Madeline, Adolfo, Allisa, Carlos
Adolfo "mansplaining"to Madeline
Therapy session about Carlos' use of cell
Guys playing bastketball 

Worked with 3rd group: 
Vidal, Julian, Harris, Taylor, Idaly 
1I need to pea!"
Dinner of alphabet soup
Restaurant with Harris as waitress

Worked with 6th group:
"Why are you here?"
Bianca, Jade, Issis, Jay
1. Jay takes two girls to the movies
2. The Maury Povitch Show - cheater with two girlfriends
3. Biological mother rejects child when her adopted parents take her to meet her "real" mother. 

 

T

2.      

November 13, 2017 - November 17, 2017 Weekly Agenda

 Monday, November 13th:

Theatre Games: 

Sing-off!

Kitty Wants a Corner

Graveyard

Tuesday, November 14th: 

Three Scenes and a Phrase

Students will break into groups of four.

The students will come up with a phrase that is at least four words long:

No profanity, no sexual or bathroom situation (scatology), or gangbanging, or violence

Your group is going to create three scenes (about a minute in length)

The scene must have a conflict, character relationships, and a beginning, a middle, and an end. The scene must have a story.

Each scene has to use the phrase in some way. Each time the phrase is used, it must be used in a different way.

We are now going to divide into groups.

The first thing I want you to do is:

1.     Write down the names of each person in your group

2.     Then create your four word phrase

3.     Then create a scenario for each scene (there must be three scenes).

These scenes can be stand-alone (not connected together)

Or these scenes can be connected, and be Act 1, Act 2, or Act 3 of the story.

First group: (on stage right)

Bryan, Jay, Giselle, Jasmine,  Julia Massari

Second group: (on stage left)

Lizbeth A., Madeline, Adolfo, Allisa, Carlos

Third group: (on third row by the second book case)

Vidal, Julian, Harris, Taylor, Idaly

Fourth group: (Fifth row by the white board – by the HHS Thespians)

Salamata, Hilaryd, Jestice, Dennis

Fifth group: (Seventh row by third book case)

Lizbeth L.,  Allen, Magdalena, Melany, Christopher

6^th group: (Ninth row by the Dracula Poster)

Bianca, Jade, Isiss, Julia Mendez

Wednesday, November 15th: 
Students work on their scenes.

Thursday, November 16th: 
Nigerian King's visit
Sub coverage
Students work on scenes

Friday, November 17th: 
Students work on their scenes

November 6, 2017 - November 9, 2017 Weekly Agenda for World Theatre Class

Monday, November 6th: 

Emotional Cocktail:

Jay, Julian, Harris, Adolpho, Katherine, Vidal, Julia Masari

Madeline, Bianca, Jazmine, Taylor, Gizelle, Jestice, Issis, Hilaryd

Allen, Jade, Carlos, Allisa

Issis, Melanie, Lizbeth L. Bryan, Magdalena, Julia Mendez, Salamata

Harris, Julian, Jay, Lizbeth, Madeline, Allen, Jestice

Tuesday, November 7th: 
Restorative Justice session today with Ms. Walker

Wednesday, November 8th: 

Theatre Games:

School Bus:

Julian, Jay, Jestice, Madeline, Bianca, Jasmine, Harris, Bianca

Taylor, Allen, Salamata, Lizbeth, Vidal, Bryan, Issis, Gisselle, Hilary

Jestice, Allen, Julian, Salamata, Taylor, Bianca, Madeline, Harris

Taxi:

Jestice, Jay, Allen, Harris, Madeline, Dennis, Bianca, Harris, Issis, Salamata

Thursday, November 9th: 
Theatre Games:
Why Are You Late?
Back Story!

Theatre Games:

Backstory:

Madeline, Jestice

Harris, Bianca, Giselle, Taylor, Madeline, Jesice, Julian, Julia Mendez, Julia Masari,

Jay, Julian

Why Are You Late?

Taylor, Madeline, Dennis, Lizbeth A., Hilaryd, Harris, Jade

Julia Mendez, Jay, Julian, Jasmine, Bianca, Gizelle

Bianca, Lizbeth, Issis, Jade, Alisa, Julia Masari

ABC Improv – suggested by Taylor

A – Situation (Activity)

B – Conflict

C – Solution

Taylor – studying for test

Jasmine – loud annoying sister

Harris – Mom 

Friday, November 10th:

No school today!

October 30, 2017 - November 3, 2017 Weekly Agenda for World Theatre Performance

Monday, October 30th: 
First day of rotation 

Tuesday, October 31st: 

New rotation

Freeze Tag: Jaz, Jestice, Kaylan, Adolfo, Jazmine, Taylor, Julian, Allen, Madelyn, Chris

One Word Story: Jaz, Allen, Madelyn, Jestice, Julian,

Alphabet: Issis, Lizbeth, Hilaryd, Jay, Jestice, Kaylan, Jazmine

Wednesday, November 1st: 
Assigned seats

Passed out and went over the class syllabus

Had students answer the following questions:

1.     What is your name? Your first and last name!

2.     What name do you prefer to be called?

3.     What middle school did you attend?

4.     Have you ever studied drama? If so, where? How long?

5.     Have you ever been in a play before? If so, how many and what were they?

6.     Which of the four disciplines (music, drama, dance, or tech) are  you interested in?

7.     Do you sing? How long have you been singing?

8.     Do you dance? How long have you been dancing?

9.     What other special abilities or talents do you have?

10. What is your favorite subject?

11. What is your least favorite subject?

12. What do you enjoy doing?

13. What is the one thing you hate to do?

14. What are your strengths?

15. What are your weaknesses?

Incorporate the question in your answer. Please do not give yes or no answers.  Please answer in full sentences:

Example: My name is Julian Diaz. I prefer to be called Julian.

Following students presented:

Bryan, Lizbeth, Adolfo, Allen, Harris,

Wednesday, November 2nd: 
Following students presented today:
Julia Masari, Julian, Hilaryd, Giselle, Lizbeth L., Taylor, Dennis, Idaly, Vidal, Liza, Melanie, Chris, Carlos, Bianca, Madeline, Jade, Issis,

Freeze Tag:
Harris, Madeline, Dennis, Jay

October 23, 2017 - October 27, 2017 Weekly Agenda for World Theatre Class

Monday, October 23rd: 
Theatre Games
Present "Three Scenes and a Phrase"

Theatre Games:

“Why Are You Late?” – Francine, Destiny, Milo, Milan, Destiny, Brenan, Kenya, Nadiya

Passed out monologues to those students who have already presented their scenes.

Worked with:

Destiny, Nadiya, Bryangel, Marylyn, Karen

“I really hate you guys!”

1.     Karen shoved in to Destiny

2.     Destiny is Karen’s g/f – goes to family’s house and is rude.

3.     Karen sees Destiny with her brother and thinks he is b/f

Milan, Hannah, Ivett, Chloe, Maya

“You are so mean!”

1.     Bullies knock their ice cream to the ground

2.     School – bullies scribble all over their test papers

3.     Ivett and Chloe try to be nice but bullies are still mean.

Tuesday, October 24th: 
Restorative Justice Session today with Ms. Walker in #506.

Wednesday, October 25th: 

Worked with the following groups today:

Destiny S, Milo, Cierra, Francine, Idalia

Kenya, Diego, Takai, Zoey, Trenton, Samantha

Scene Presentations:

Destiny, Nadiya, Bryangel, Marylyn, Karen

Passed out monologues to those who have already presented!

Thursday, October 26th: 

Rehearsed and then presented the following scenes:
Kenya, Diego, Takai, Zoey, Brenan - subbed for Trenton who is absent today
"Ya'll better stop it!
Unruly class, friend gets run over, old lady harassed by mean kids

Destiny Smith, Milo, Cierra, Francine, Idalia -
"This is the end of the world!"
Everybody dies in an earthquake in a three act playlet

Milan, Hannah, Ivett, Chloe -
"You're really mean!"
Really mean bullies, Milan and Hannah, harass sweet girls Ivett and Chloe.

Destiny Johnson started reading the monologue "Dear Dad"

October 16, 2017 - October 20, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday,  October 16th: 

Guest Artist: Jack Fleischer

Theatre Games:

“Why Are You Late?”

Milo, Milan, Kenya, Coby, Brenan, Timaiyah

Read monologues:

Kenya – break up fight with soul mate

Katherine – letter to fictional guy

Helper - Joseph

Francine – Reread completed mono about friends from middle school

Idalia – addressed to friend who suffers from anxiety and depression

Milan – Meta monologue

Alejandra – Letter to some one who hurt her

Student break into their groups, create a sentence with a minimum of four words, and three scenes using their phrase in different ways.

Split into groups to work on “Three Phrases and a Scene”

Worked with Brenan,  Nathan, Diana, Alinah, Yadira

Jack  worked with:

Coby, Katherine, Alejandra, Tymiah, Joseph

Tuesday, October 17th: 
Absent today due to illness.
Theatre games

Wednesday, October 18th: 

Guest Artist: Alicia

Presentations of monologues:

Marylyn: letter to a grandfather figure who died from alzheimers

Destiny: a letter to her absent father

Brenan: letter to her brother who was killed around the time of her birth

Kenya: two monologues – requiem for a friendship; observations on a bus ride

Francine: Ode to her old middle school friend

Presentations of Three Scenes and a Phrase

Coby, Joseph, Katherine, Tymiah

“We really want that!”

Shopping for costumes, girl likes a boy, kids ordering food at a restaurant

Thursday, October 19th: 

Work on and present “Three Scenes and a Phrase”

Brenan – daughter wants to go to New York

Alinah – forbids her daughter to go to New York

Diana – bad friend

Nathan – little snitch brother who tells mom Brenan is going to New York

Yadira  - cop who busts the girls in an over 21 club.

October 9, 2017 - October 13, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, October 9th:

Twenty minute write:

Create a character

Create either an issue, a situation, or a conflict

Write a monologue about that issue or the situation or the conflict

It doesn’t have to be serious. It can be funny.

Ranting is when someone is angry or annoyed about something and starts talking about it in an extended fashion.

People Who Shared Their Monologues:

Kenya – bullying, Coby – anxiety; Milan – perfection; Kenya – free style; Timayah – issues about school; Trenton – talking to his mom in New Orleans; Coby – anonymous share; Francine – didn’t finish

Students presented more of their monologues:

Brenan, Destiny Johnson, Coby, Zoey, Hannah, Milo, Timyiah, Cierra, Francine

Tuesday, October 10th:

Absent today

Students presented their monologues to class today

Wednesday, October 11th: 

Special Schedule Today: 

PSAT Testing

Senior Day: 

College Information 

College Fair 

No second or third period today. 

Thursday, October 12th: 

Students presented more of their monologues:

Brenan, Destiny Johnson, Coby, Zoey, Hannah, Milo, Timyiah, Cierra, Francine

For tomorrow, groups for “Three Scenes and a Phrase”

Brenan

Nathan

Diana

Alinah

Yadira

Coby

Katherine

Alejandra

Tymiah

Joseph

Destiny

Nadiya

Bryangel

Marylyn

Karen

Milan

Hannah

Ivett

Chloe

Maya

Destiny Smith

Milo

Cierra

Francine

Idalia

Kenya

Diego

Takai

Zoey

Trenton

Samantha

Friday, October 13th: 

Groups for Three Scenes and a Phrase

Brenan – on stage left

Nathan

Diana

Alinah

Yadira

Coby – stage right

Katherine

Alejandra

Tymiah

Joseph

Destiny – Third row by bookcase

Nadiya

Bryangel

Marylyn

Karen

Milan – fifth row by the white board

Hannah

Ivett

Chloe

Maya

Destiny Smith – seventh row by the second window

Milo

Cierra

Francine

Idalia

Kenya – ninth row by the @hhs_Thespians

Diego

Takai

Zoey

Trenton

Samantha

You are going to break into your groups; you’re going to come up with a phrase with a minimum of four words,  which can be used in a multitude of ways. Then you are going to create three scenes, each different, using the phrase in a different way each time.

Each scene must be a minute long, must have characters, a situation, and a conflict of some sort, and an arc, which means a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Each scene must have the phrase.

First thing you are going to do is write down the names of everybody in your group.

Second thing you are going to do is come up a four-word phrase which you can say with a variety of meanings.

Third thing you are going to do is come up with ideas for three scenes in which you can use the phrase.

October 2, 2017 - October 6, 2017 Agenda

Monday, October 2nd:
Theatre Games:

Trip to New York:

Brenan, Milo, Kenya, Milan, Francine, Coby, Destiny, Timayah

Coby, Maya, Hannah, Idalia, Destiny, Destiny

Things got out of hand. 

Tuesday, October 3rd: 
Theatre Games:
Bus to New York
Eight students are chosen to play. The premise is that they are boarding a bus to New York.  The students pick a piece of paper out of a hat with a character written on the paper.
Character types:
A teenage runaway
A grandmother who is visiting her grandchildren
A young actor going to New York to seek fame
A young student going away to college for the first time
A robber escaping to New York
A detective who is pursuing the robber
A superhero traveling incognito
The bus driver

Grade School:
Six little kids in a kindergarten class with a teacher:
One good little boy
One hyperactive little girl
One talkative little girl
One little boy who wants the teacher's attention
One little boy who wants to show his crush a picture he drew
One little girl who wants to be good but wants to see the picture the little boy drew
The teacher

Rock Star!

Theatre Games:

Kindergartners

Teacher reading story to hyper-active students.

Talkative student, hyper-active student, shy student, good girl/good boy, mischievous kid, kid wants to show crush a picture s/he drew/

Milo, Hannah, Katherine, Takai, Nadiya, Kenya, Destiny Smith

Bus Stop:

Francine – Vampire trying to find shade,

Destiny – Alien trying to birth alien babies to take over the world and it has to be at that bus stop.

Maya – undercover cop

Trenton – murdered on the run

Chloe – young girl killed by slasher will forever haunt her killer at the bus stop where she was killed.

Brenan – the killer who is forever haunted by Chloe. She cannot leave the bus stop which is where she killed Chloe.  This is a death in life.

Joseph – an old man who wants to sit down at the bus stop to wait for the bus and is trying to make the killer get up. He thinks she is crazy because she is arguing with both him and the ghost.

1

Wednesday, October 4th: 

Eight students are chosen to play. The premise is that they are boarding a bus to New York.  The students pick a piece of paper out of a hat with a character written on the paper.

Character types:

A teenage runaway

A grandmother who is visiting her grandchildren

A young actor going to New York to seek fame

A young student going away to college for the first time

A robber escaping to New York

A detective who is pursuing the robber

A superhero traveling incognito

The bus driver

Katherine, Destiny S., Karen, Francine, Takai, Milan, Nathan

Rock Star! 

Freeze Tag! Milan, Destiny S., Tymayah, Cierra, Hannah, Francine, Kenya

Fairy Tale: Kenya, Milan, Trenton, Milo, Joseph, Hannah, etc.

Thursday, October 5th: 

Theatre Games:

The teacher

Anxious mother

Six little kids in a kindergarten class with a teacher:

One good little boy

One hyperactive little girl

One talkative little girl

One little boy who wants the teacher's attention

One little boy who wants to show his crush a picture he drew

One little girl who wants to be good but wants to see the picture the little boy drew

A little girl who is pretending to be a puppy

One child who is a space alien

A mother who is anxious over her child

Back Story:

Improv – situation and a relationship

When they mention something that happened in the past, they immediately have to act it

out. When another person is mentioned then a person joins the improv.

People who can participate today:

Nathan­_, Katherine , Nadiya _, Ivett _, Diego _, Diana _, Alejandra_, Brenan _, Takai _,

Alinah _, Hannah _, Milo _, Milan _, Cierra (?) _, Zoey _, Trenton _, Kenya _, Francine _,  Yadira _, Bryangel _, Chloe _, Marylyn _, Idalia _, Destiny S. _. Maya _, Karen _, Joseph _, Tymiah (?) _, Samantha ­_.

"Hannah/Montana" storyline:
Coby is on a date with two girls, but neither girl knows about the other. There is a waitress Coby is also making eyes at and one of his girlfriends gets in an argument with her. 
Actors: Coby, Idalia, Zoe, Destiny S. 

Storyline: Two young gay girls are in love, but one set of parents is dead set against their daughter being gay and forbids her to see her girlfriend. The girls want to see each other and so concoct a story that the girl is going out with a guy - who is actually just a good friend. The friend arrives to pick the girl up. Her mother asks for his number, which her daughter gives her, but she accidentally gives she mother her girlfriend's number. When the mother calls the number, the girlfriend answers with, "Hi, baby!" The parents go ballistic. The other girl's parents are two moms and when they hear about what's going on, they go over to the straight parents' home and have it out with them. Meanwhile, the three kids escape and go to an "over-twenty-one club" where they get carded by the police and are arrested. Both sets of parents go down to the police station where the cop tells the straight parents they are wrong and the gay parents adopt the straight parents' daughter. 

Actors: Milan, Francine - girl friends
Coby - friend 
Destiny Johnson, Trenton - straight parents 
Brana, Katherine - gay parents
Destiny S. - cop 

Friday, October 6th: 
Frank class discussion about student stress