April 30, 2018 - May 4, 2018 Weekly Schedule for World Theatre Class

Monday, April 30th: 
Watch Into the Woods film for Arts Integration
Theatre games:
Kitty Wants a Corner
Follow the Leader
Rough Draft Presentations:
Dennis - accused of killing his best friend
Annmarie - telling her crush she likes him


Tuesday, May 1st: 
Shortened Day
Present your final draft
As soon as you present your final draft, begin memorizing and creating your character for presentation

Mackenzie - Final draft
Talking to a friend about not wanting to fulfill mom's wishes that she speak at her abusive father's funeral

Jose - not ready

Bryan - Rough draft
Has to take kid brother to soccer practice but he can't find the car keys and blames his mother for taking the keys.

Lisbeth - Rough draft
Talking to a friend about someone she likes

Issis - Rough draft
Autism - new topic
Giving information about autism

Taylor - Rough draft
New - writing to cousin in jail

Hilaryd - Rough draft
Arguing with he sister who is a drama queen

Mayte Guzman - Rough Draft
Dad in hospital after a bad car accident. She has to tell him that she may not graduate from middle school because of her low g.p.a.
 

Wednesday, May 2nd: 

Presentations of your rough draft today.

Jose – Rough Draft

Waking up from a coma after being in a drunk driving accident

Makenna – Backstory/Rough Draft

Sister and she are playing ball in the living room when  her sister breaks the t.v.

Vidal – Rough Draft

Calling friend after he discovers a child caged in the creepy neighbor’s basement.

Idalia – Rough Draft

Backstory/rough draft  – new

Can’t date a guy she likes because she thinks he is  leading her on .  

As soon as you present your final draft, begin memorizing and creating your character for presentation

Thursday, May 3rd: 
Today finish presenting your rough draft.
Tomorrow, Friday, May 4th, present your final draft
You will begin presenting your character beginning on Monday, May 7th.

Entrance Exercise: Students write scenarios on a slip of paper and place in a basket. A volunteer chooses – without looking – a slip and acts out what is on the paper.

Volunteers: Ilan, Annmarie, Giselle, Adolfo

Presentations:

Finishing up the Rough Drafts:

Andrea – trying to persuade friend not to commit suicide

Joseph – rich guy asks a gold digger out on a disastrous date.

Amanda – ranting to another friend about a very difficult friend

Idalia – talking to a guy she has a crush on

Sam (backstory too) – gangbanging brother killed by his ex-girlfriend

Magdalena (backstory, too) – sister robbed a bank

Friday, May 4th:
Presentations of your final draft.

Guest Artist:  Jack!

Entrance Game: Jay, Adolfo, Ilan, Alina, Salamata

Presentations:

Rough Draft:

Yessenia – trying to tell her sleepy sister about an embarrassing incident with a boy she likes.

Final Draft:

Jay – has a crush on a girl

Giselle – a thief gets arrested when she tries to return a broken watch she’s stolen.

Joseph – rich guy who takes a gold digger on a disastrous date.

Dennis – a teen who is being interrogated for the murder of his best friend, by an older cop who murdered her when she tried to break it off with him.

Ilan – trying to figure out how to get out of trouble with setting the backyard on fire.

April 23, 2018 - April 27, 2018 Weekly Agenda

Special Schedule 

Wednesday, April 23rd: 
Work on first-draft of monologue

Thursday, April 24th: 
Watch Into the Woods as part of Arts Integration

April 16, 2018 - April 20, 2018 Weekly Agenda

Monday, April 16th: 

Students continue presenting their backstory and first draft monologues

For homework: students will rewrite their first draft for presentation

Students worked on back story and rough draft:

Conferences with:

Hilaryd

Jay

Yessenia

Presenters:

Jay – First love

Ilan – Accidentally sets fire to the backyard

Madeline – Lives in a religious but homosexual community that believes hetero love is a sin. She is coming out to her two moms.

Tuesday, April 17th: 

Theatre Games:

"School Bus" 

Students continue presenting their backstory and first draft monologues 

For homework: students will rewrite their first draft for presentation
Annmarie - (volunteered)
Backstory: a crush has told her he doesn't care for her
No monologue

Alissa - volunteered
Backstory: Best friend who is indifferent to her needs
Monologue

Salamata - volunteered
Backstory: abducted as a baby from the hospital by druglords; sitting in the police precinct about to meet her biological parents for the first time.
No monologue

Jose - declined

Bryan -
Backstory: College student who is entrusted with taking his little brother to soccer practice. Mom accidentally took his car keys.
No monologue:

Lizbeth -
Backstory: Trying to screw up her courage to tell her best friend she has feelings have changed.
No monologue

Idalia -
Backstory: Telling her best friend how much she means to her after both have gone through some really tough times during 8th and 9th grade.
No monologue

Vidal -
Backstory: Has a weird next door neighbor who's tall, bald, with a long beard. Sometimes he can hear screaming from his neighbor's house. One night he sneaks into his neighbor's house and finds a small emaciated child caged in the basement. He manages to sneak out of the house unnoticed and now has a moral dilemma - what does he do now?  He is sharing his moral dilemma with a friend - should he go to the authorities and tell them what he saw?
No monologue

Wednesday, April 18th: 

Presentations of Back Story:
Yadira (volunteered)
Back Story:
After watching a strange video on youtube a young girl notices strange things beginning to happen:
phone locks, strange car parked in front, flashing light in bedroom window
No monologue

Good suggestions: Madeline, Annmarie, Dennis

Madeline: (volunteered)
Back Story:
Bullied friend committed suicide. She has a regret - she saw him the day he died and ignored him.
Very powerful!
Rough draft: Anti-bullying; expressing hurt and anger over the bullying she has endured.

Dennis:
Back Story: Lucas has been accused of murdering his best friend who was actually murdered by the man she was having an affair with - a cop.  She is a minor and wants to end the relationship and the cop is afraid she will report him.  Lucas finds her body and is now stands accused by the cop for her death.
No monologue.


 Thursday, April 19th:

Continued Presentation of Back Story and First Draft of Monologue:
Ublester:
First draft: speaking to angry car owner, his friend who broke the guy's car window, and then, his dad.

Joseph:
Back Story
1/2 of first draft: Crush gives his a chance

Mayte:
Back Story: Dad had a car accident; she has to tell him that she might not graduate

Taylor:
Back Story: Cousin died from asthma at age 14; her sister is devastated; she speaks to her sobbing sister on the day of their cousin's funeral.

Magdalena:
Back Story: Her adult sister robbed a bank; wants her to hide the money

Amanda:
Back Story: A close friend suddenly becomes like a mean girl and has wrecked her plans to be with her best friend.

Jose:
Back Story: Was accepted to play on the soccer team. Celebrates with a friend who is drinking and driving. His friend crashes the car, leaving him paralyzed. He is now talking to his friend about drinking and driving.
 
Andrea:
Back Story: Her cousin is contemplating suicide because of her parents' divorce. Her grades have plummeted and is deeply depressed.  Andrea is counseling her friend. 

Yessenia:
Back Story: Gets awkward around her crush.

David:
Back Story: Bill's family trying to deal with really bad bug problem.
Suggestion: Bill tried to handle the bug problem on his own and winds up causing the house to explode. Bill is now trying to explain to his family what he did and why.

Karen:
Back Story: Mom is giving her a hard time because her little sister's grades are better than hers were in elementary school. Karen's answer is that she is helping her little sister with her homework, and she didn't have anyone to help her when she was little.

Hilaryd:
Back Story: Sister is always causing drama. She is untidy and never cleans the room, but Hilaryd gets blamed for it. 
Karen
Hilary 

Friday, April 20th: 

Present back story
Begin presenting the rough draft of your monologue

April 9, 2018 - April 13, 2018 World Theatre Class

Monday, April 9th: 
Theatre Exercises:

Guest Artist: Jack

Jack worked with Salamata and Amanda on their “What I Did During Spring Break”

With helpers Ilan and Jay. 

 Group performed their version of "Ready Player One"

Get out a sheet of paper. Write about something you can relate to – maybe something that is bothering you. Some things that bother teens are:

Giselle: When you are in your room with the door closed and someone comes in to tell you something and when they leave, they leave the door open.

Liz: When adults say that teens don’t have anything to stress over and they don’t have any problems.

Mackenzie: When adults always act as if they are right just because they are adults.

Adolfo: Slow internet when you are playing a game.

Ublester:

Liz: When someone just looks at you and just decides who you are. When people judge you just by looking at you.

AnnMarie; When you are at a family party and your family says it’s time to go and two hours later your parents are still yakking and you’re still there.

Yessenia: When your parents talk smack about you in front of you.

Yessenia: When your parents give you contradictory commands – Like grow up and when you try to act like a grown-up, they get mad and say “You’re just a child.”

Joseph: When my charger breaks.

Bryan: When I am having a good day and my mom isn’t and I come home and Mom is yelling. That kills my day!

Yadira: When spotify ads pop up.

Issis: Ignorant people. When you ask a member of your family a question, and they ignore you or answer in a really sarcastic way.

Dennis: When you are really hungry and someone asks if they can have some of your food.

Jose:  When his mom takes away his phone.

Yessenia: When you go a relative’s house and they ask you if you are hungry, you say no, but they give you food anyway. Or they give you food you don’t like, but your mom makes you eat it.

Liz: When people can’t take a hint.

When you are trying to say something in a nice way, but they don’t get it.

Bryan: When I go to a family reunion and my mom makes me say hello to everyone.

“Drop the Mic”

Annmarie – friend who corrects her pronunciation

Jay – Mom says they have food at home when they don’t

Alinah – Her friend shoves her into a cute guy

Giselle – Her friend threatens to break her pencil if she doesn’t do what she wants

Ilan -

Joseph

Yessenia

Mayte

"Drop the Mic"

Tuesday, April 10th:  
Acting Exercises
"Drop the Mic" - students get up and vent about what is bothering them.
Everybody went!
"Alphabet Fairy Tale" - Jay, Joseph, Lizbeth, Ilan, Giselle,

Wednesday, April 11th: 

Period 3:

I want you to think about a situation that has either happened to you, or you have seen it happen, and you had a strong reaction to. You can also completely make up a situation.

I want you to write about that situation.

You need to create an environment – a setting. A setting is where the scene takes place. Where is the scene taking place? Be specific! What time of day is it?  What time of year is it?

You can create another character who is completely different from you for this monologue.

What is the situation?

There has to be a conflict. What is the character  fighting for or against?

Who is the character talking to?

What is the character’s attitude toward the other person?

What does the character want from the other person? What does the character want the other character to do?

Tomorrow, we will work on your character’s back-story.

  Thursday, April 12th: 
Writing Exercises

Today you are going to write about the back-story to the incident you are talking about. 

After you write the back-story, then you are going to write a rough draft of your monologue.

After you have finished the rough draft, you may read your monologue to a trusted friend.

This is what you need to have in your back-story:

The setting – where did it happen?

The people who were involved – who was present? Who caused it?

The incident: what happened? Who or what caused it to happen? What was your reaction to the event that happened? What was the other person’s or people’s reaction to the event that happened? How did the entire event make you feel? What do you feel should happen next?

This does not have to be a true story!

 The rough draft

Should have a beginning, a middle, and an end

It should have a conflict!

You must be talking to someone.

You must have some sort of demand of, or request from, or need from the other person.

It must be specific! You must cite a specific incident in the monologue.

Friday, April 13th: 
Writing Exercises

April 3, 2018 - April 6, 208 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade Theatre Class

Tuesday, April 3rd:

Theatre Games

"What I Did During Spring Break"
Students break into groups of three to five actors, and create a scene, fictional or actual, about high school students on spring break.

Groups:
1. Karen, Yessenia, Hilaryd, Magdalena, Sam:
Yessenia and Hilary host a birthday party for Magdalena which goes totally south!

2. Madeline, Salamata, Amanda, Makenna:
Based on "Ready Player One"

3. David, Ublester, Vidal, Ilan, Jay:
"Kids in a Graveyard - What Could Go Wrong!"  "Easter Egg Killer!!!!!"
Kids are in a graveyard, run into a weird looking dude. Slowly each boy disappears, leaving only Jay. Before the weird guy kills Jay, Jay says, "Wait! I found an Easter egg!" Jay can now "die" happy!

4. Liz, Issis,  Makenzie: Acting out the shows the students are watching on t.v.

5. Mayte, Alinah, Andrea, Mackenzie:
Girls waste nine days of vacation watching and making snarky comments about the movies on Netflix; then suddenly they realize they have homework and try to do a semester's worth of homework in one day. 

6. Dennis, Annmarie, Yadira, Alissa:
Easter Egg Hunt and Jesus Passion Play Go Totally South 

7. Adolfo, Joseph, Jose, Bryan:
Jose has wild dreams of being trapped in a video game.

Wednesday, April 4th:
Groups 1, 3, 4, 5, 7  performed today

Alinah, Mackenzie, Mayte, and Andrea performed - teen girls watching netflix and making snarky comment until - on day 10 of their vacation - they have one day left to do all their homework assignments which are due the next day.

Ilan, Jay, Vidal, Ublester, David - Kids decide to have an Easter Egg hunt at a cemetery at night where they are stalked and killed by a crazy guy.  Reworked the scene for blocking/staging issues.

Jose, Adolfo, Joseph, Bryan - Jose plays a gamer who gets trapped in his dreams in a violent video game.  Reworked the scene to make it more active and less static: Guys were sitting in chairs playing a video game while Jose laid on a table pretending to "sleep". Will allow them to do a redo tomorrow.

Magdalena, Sam, Karen, Hilaryd, Yessenia - surprise birthday party for a friend. Group was not prepared at all. Allowed a redo for Thursday.

Thursday, April 5th: 

Re-do of "What I Did Over My Spring Break!"
1. Jose, Adolfo, Bryan, Joseph
2. Yessenia, Hilaryd, Madgalena, Sam, Karen

First Round of "What I Did Over My Spring Break!"
Issis, Idalia, Liz, Taylor
Helper: Adolfo


Friday, April 6th:

 “Alphabet Fairy Tale”

Adolfo, Ilan, Ublester,  Dennis, Jay, Giselle

Warm-up:

Performances of “What I Did During My Spring Break!”

Dennis, Annmarie, Yadira,

Redo: Idalia, Liz, Jose, Annmarie

Open Mic:

Jay – “I Hate Puppets”

Giselle – “People Who Wear Sneakers Should Not Wear Jeans"