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: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:
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 storyBegin presenting the rough draft of your monologue
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