March 27, 2017 - March 31, 2017 World Theatre Class Agenda

Monday, March 27th:

Finish copying your script

Then do the “Who-What-Where-When-How” Journal

Go through your script and write a paragraph on each person, place, thing, or event that your character talks about or refers to.

Initial Actor’s Monologue Presentation:

Briana – “The Initiation” read

Setting, situation, conflict, dilemma

Sense Memory  

Eli – “Con Artist”

Setting, situation, conflict, dilemma

Tuesday, March 28th:  
 

Journal: Describe the person you are talking to: What do they look like? What is their personality like? What is your relationship to the person? Why are you telling this person your problems? What do you want from this person?

If you are talking to yourself, then who or what are you talking about? Why are you talking about this person or this situation?

If you are talking to yourself, then what is the other person doing? Where are you when you are watching (stalking) this person? Where are you in the scene – at home, at school? What are you doing?

Theatre Game:

Bus Stop!
You are playing your character at the bus stop!

Briana, Malia, Nikki, Anthony, Latija, Eli

Inciting Incident:

“Initiation” – Briana

Cool Kids – Eli, Hannah, Nathan

Initial Presentation of Monologue:

Worked with Latija

Malia – helper


Wednesday, March 29th: 

Guest Artists:

Alicia and Brendan

Brief discussion of what it’s like to be an actor.

Journal:

Autobiography of your character:

Where do you live?

Describe your parents? How old are they? What do they do for a living?

Do you have siblings? Describe them.

March 20, 2017 - March 24, 2017 Agenda

Monday, March 20th:
Warm-ups:
"Kitty Wants a Corner"
"Do You like Your Neighbor"

"Inciting Incident - Improvisations"
"F'ever-n-Ever"
Onxy
Verena
Helpers:
Naiya - Mom
Julio - Dad

"Prom Perfect"
Gerardo - asks Lesly out on a date
Lesly
Helpers:
Malia - Mom going over check list of things he has to do to prepare for prom.
Nathan - flower shoppe clerk who sells them the lousy last minute corsage.

"Square One"
Antony
Julio
Helpers:
Malia - ninth grade girl who has a crush on Anthony
Eli - ninth grade kid who thinks Anthony is a ninth grader
Nikki - cool senior girl who "disses" Anthony, the ninth grade dweeb.

"Runaways"
Jennifer
Helper:
Davon - angry dad who runs off daughter

Tuesday, March 21st: 

Finished up the "Inciting Incident" Exercises:
"Runaway" - Eli
Helper - Briana

"A Room of My Own"  - Kimberly
Helpers - Briana and Jennifer

"Shopping" - Kateryn and Sandra
Helper - Onyx

"Who Cares?" - Hannah
Helpers - Nathan, Verena, Anthony, Briana, Julio, Latija

Wednesday, March 22nd: 

Theatre Games!

“Why are you late?”

Participants:

Julio, Brana, Latija, Onyx, Briana

Eli, Davon, Jeidn, Verena, Nathan, Hannah

Pass out the Dance Show critiques.

Ms. Goldschein’s dance show is this weekend:

The show is Friday @ 7p.m., Saturday @ 7p.m., and Sunday @ 2 p.m., March 24^th, March 25^th, March 26^th. If you see it and would like to get extra credit points, please take the Extra Credit Critique paper, follow the directions on the critique, and write a one page review of the show.

If you wish to usher, then you need to be at school at 5 p.m. on Friday or Saturday. You should dress nicely, nice black pants or skirt, white blouse or shirt, and nice shoes.  Your duties include cleaning the lobby, setting up the flower table, arranging the flowers to sell, and selling the flowers. Before and during the show, you may be asked to be a flower runner, which means running the flowers backstage to the dancers. After the show, you will be expected to clean up and put away the flowers.

Attending the dance show as an audience member = 100

Critique = 200 points

Ushering = 100 points per show

Donated to the Leukemia Fund:

Kimberly, Briana, Kateryn,

Pass out your monologues!

The monologues are passed out randomly. If you don’t like the monologue you were randomly given, then you can trade monologues and negotiate with each other until you find one you like.

Once you find the monologue you like, then please put it in your folder!

Thursday, March 23rd:  
Went over ushering protocol again


Warm-ups:
Walking sense memory

List of scenes and actors for the monologue part of the class: 

Lesly Ayala – “Earth Mother”

Anthony Bravo – “Too Old for That, Too Young for This”

Malia –

Davon –

Eli – “Con Artist”

Nikki – “The Big D”

Briana – “Initiation”

Kimberly – “Zipped Up”

Emily – “Eye Contact”

Rachel – “Adopted”

Verena – “Moving”

Onyx – “Earth Mother”

Latija – “Two-Faced”

Sandra – “Roommate”

Kateryn – “

Jeidn – “Just a Kid”

Danny – “Mr. Perfect”

Naiya – “Roommate”

Brana – “Just a Kid”

Gerardo -  “Initiation”

Stephanie – “”Roommate”

Jaspreet – “Homework”

Julio –

Jennifer – “Caught”

First reading of monologues in front of class.

"Who are you?"

"Where are you?"

"Who are you talking to?"

"What do you want?" 

Nikki – “The Big D”

Brana – “Just a Kid”

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

Friday, March 24th:
Gave assigned seats
Passed back the acting folders to the students
Had students copy their monologues out

Theatre Game:
Emotional Cocktail as your character!
Anthony, Briana, Malia, Latija, Nikki, Brana 

 

March 13, 2017 - March 17, 2017 Weekly Agenda for World Theatre Class

Monday, March 13th: 
Continue presenting scenes today for midterms.
After you present your scenes, please turn in your notebook.

Guest Artist today:
Jack!

Ten-minute rehearsals

Many students are absent today

Presentations:

“F’ever-n-Ever”

Onyx

Verena

Emotional Cocktail: Anthony, Nathan, Hannah, Julio, Briana, Jeiden 

Tomorrow, we will finish the presentations!

Tuesday, March 14th: 
The following scenes presented:

“Square One” –

Julio

Anthony

“A Room of Your Own” –

Kimberly

Jeidn

“Who Cares?” – Hannah

Wednesday, March 15th: 

Self Reflection on the First Scene

Your self-reflection must be typed.

 Please answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper.

Please incorporate these questions in your answers.

Please answer in complete sentences.

One word answers will not be given credit.

This will be due on Friday, March 17^th.

1.     Did you try your best on the scene?

2.     If you did not try your best, why not?

3.     What could you have done to make your scene better?

4.     Did you rehearse everyday with your scene partner?

5.     What was the biggest difficulty in rehearsing with your scene partner?

6.     Did you memorize your lines?

7.     What helped you the most in memorizing your lines?

8.     What was the most difficult part in memorizing your lines?

9.     When you performed your scene, did you speak audibly (loud) enough for your audience to hear you?

10. Did you try to enunciate (speak clearly) so the audience could understand you?

11. When you were performing, did you listen while the other character was speaking?

12. When you were performing, did you believe in your environment or setting? In other words, if your scene was set in a school classroom, did you believe you were actually there?

13. Were you clear in your relationship with the other character?

14. Were you clear in what you wanted (your objectives) from the other character?

15. Did you use the props you were supposed to use in your scene?

16. Did you do the blocking that was given to you by the director?

17. How did you think you did in the scene?

18. What did you learn from doing the scene?

The following students presented their scenes today:

“Prom Perfect” – Gerardo and Lesly

“Hanging Out” – Brana and Naiya

Those who have yet to go:

Sandra and Kateryn – “Shopping”

Davon – monologue

Thursday, March 16th: 

Final scene presentations for the first round of scenes:

“Shopping”

Sandra did not memorize it so she read it

Onyx stepped in for Kateryn and read the role

“The Play’s Not the Thing”

Davon

Kimberly – helper

Inciting Incident:

Students worked together to do an improvisation about an event which occurs prior to the scene which causes the scenes to occur:

“Waves” – Malia and Nathan (nerdy best friends)

Helpers: Latija, Brana ( mean girls who used to be Malia's best friends in middle school who rejected her once they reached high school because she is too nerdy.

“The Disappearance of Daniel Hand”

Nikki - runaway

Helpers: Jaspreet, Anthony, and Latija (Latija and Anthony are Nikki's parents who forbid Nikki to date her loser boyfriend.)

“The Disappearance of Daniel Hand”

Emily

Helpers: Eli (Abused boy who runs away from home. Emily goes in search for him.)

Friday, March 17th: 

Guest Artist: Jack!

Theatre Games: Freeze-tag with object

Participants: Brana, Naiya, Latija, Nathan, Hannah, Nikki, Eli, Malia, Anthony, Davon, Briana

Inciting Events:

“Check, Please!” – Briana, Danny

Helpers: Malia (2) has two scenes: setting up Briana with Danny on a blind date.

“Less Than Human” – Rachel and Jaspreet

Helpers:

Brana plays Amanda who tells Jaspreet to ask Rachel out on  a date

Gerrardo plays Rachel’s dad, the mail carrier, who talks to Jaspreet when he arrives at the house to pick up his daughter.

“Hanging Out!” – Naiya and Brana

Helpers:

Brats: Verena and Eli

Nikki: Drill Team Captain

Latija: Band Director

Malia: Mean teacher

Naiya and Brana go around the circuit of all four people – the brats, the drill captain, the band director, and the mean teacher – three times fast to get across the idea of a typical day in their school year.

“The Play’s Not the Thing” – Davon

Helper:

Briana – Mom who tries to talk her son into putting on a rabbit suit to do the school play.

Do on Monday, March 20^th:

“Who Cares?” – Hannah

Nathan – Brother

Anthony – Dad

Mom -

Verena – Night Rider

Briana – the sales clerk who busts her for stealing

Teacher

Someone who tells her her dog was killed            

March 6, 2017 - March 10, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, March 6th: 
The grading period opens this Thursday and closes on Thursday, March 16^th. On Friday, you are going to turn in your folder and in your folder you need to have the following:

1.     Your script – you will get additional points if you have the original script

2.     Your copied script

3.     Your “Who-What-Where-When-How” (back story) of your script

4.     Your relationship with the other character in the script

5.     Your character’s history!

Today for your journal entry, please answer the following questions for your character’s history?

1.     What city or town is your character living in now? Describe it.

2.     Who are your parents? Describe them. What do they do for a living?

3.     Describe your home. Is it a nice house. Is it comfortable? Do you like it?

4.     Do you have any siblings – brothers or sisters? Who are they? Do you like them and get along with them? If you don’t get along with them, why not?

5.     What grade are you in school? Describe your school, your classes. What is your favorite class? Your least favorite class?

6.     Who are your friends? Describe them. What do you like about them? What annoys you about them?

7.     Do you have people you dislike? Why? Do they dislike you? Why?

8.     What is the central conflict you have in the story? What do you want to happen regarding the central conflict?

Tried to work with Anthony and Julio on “Back to Square One” – Julio said he had to go to bathroom and was gone for fifteen minutes.

Devon could not find script for me to work with him on his monologue.

Tuesday, March 7th: 
Shortened Day!
Worked with "Square One" with Anthony and Julio
Worked with Devon on his monologue

Wednesday, March 8th:  

Work on the autobiography of your character

Work with:

Hannah – “Who Cares?”

Malia and Nathan – “Wave”

  Begin presenting tomorrow! 

Thursday, March 9th: 

Theatre Games: “I feel ­­­­­­­­­­_____________!"

Rehearsed:

“Wave” – Malie and Natha

Rehearse for about ten minutes

Begin Presenting:

“Check Please” – Danny and Brianna

“Geniuses” – Stephanie and Brana

“The Disappearance of Daniel Hand” – Nikki and Emily

 

Friday, March 10th: 
 

If you have performed your scene, then your folder is due today with:

1.     Your printed script

2.     Your copied script

3.     Your who-what-where-when-how-why journal

4.     Your autobiography of your character

5.     Your character relationship with the other character

If you have not performed your scene yet, then please turn your folder in after you present your scene.

Performances today:

“Wave” – Nathan and Malia

“Runaways” – Eli and Jennifer

“Less Than Human” – Rachel and Jaspreet