Reflection - Thursday, January 28

Today we worked on The Repertoire scene from Shelter, and on small-group "A Night on the Mountain" projects. Please leave your reflection here.

"A Night on the Mountain" - Script

Please have one member of each group submit the working-script (as it sands) for your scene here.

Reflection - Wednesday, January 27

Today we worked on scenes titled "A Night on the Mountain". Please submit your reflection here.

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU SHOULD SUBMIT A COMMENT FOR ALL REFLECTIONS EVEN IF IT ONLY SAYS "I WAS ABSENT FOR TODAY'S CLASS."

Reflection - Wednesday, January 20

Today we finished reading our scene from The Winslow Boy, reviewed last year's exam questions, and rehearsed repertoire scenes. Please put your reflection here.

Reflection,- Tuesday, January 19

In today's double period, we read (and almost finished) Act I of The Winslow Boy. Put your reflection here, please.

Reflection - Tuesday, January 12

Whoops! I forgot to put this one up. Please put the Tuesday reflections here!

Script - "All the World's a Stage I'm Going Through"

Please have one member of each group submit the working-script of "All the World's a Stage I'm Going Through" here. (This isn't necessarily the final draft of this script.)

Reflection - Wednesday, January 13

Today groups continued scripting and rehearsing scripts titled "All the World's a Stage I'm Going Through". Please submit your reflection on today's class here.

Pictures!

Here are the pictures we have chosen for our scenes.

Desiree and Sam - Picture 71


Rebecca and Denis - Picture 53

Isabella and Blue - Picture 31

Matlida and Astrid - Picture 18

Ema and Megan - Picture 50

Ashlie, Beatrice and Patrick - To be determined

Picture Scene Scripts!

Today we wrote scripts for our picture scenes. Please have one member of each pair submit the FULL SCRIPT as a comment here.

Monday, January 11 - Reflection

Today pairs planned and scripted Picture Scenes. Leave your reflection about today's class here.

Picture Scenes

Matilda was right. (OK...That means I was wrong.) We meet again on Day 6 which is MONDAY, NOT TUESDAY, so please submit your one paragraph plan for each of THREE pictures here by this weekend! The photo album is at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=147802&id=1219322756&l=6520216a3e .

Tuesday, January 5 - Reflection

Today we discussed our tentative schedule and worked in the following groups on repertoire scenes.

"The Queen Must Die"
Matilda, Ashlie, Ema (absent)

"Daddy Long Legs"
Desiree, Astrid, Rebecca, Isabella, Beatrice (absent)

"Shelter"
Patrick, Blue, Denis, Sam, Megan

Please submit your reflection on today's work as a comment here.

"A Night on the Mountain"

The following are the groups for our project titled "A Night on the Mountain".

Group 1
Ema, Isabella, Matilda

Group 2
Desiree, Patrick, Astrid

Group 3
Denis, Rebecca, Megan

Group 4
Beatrice, Ashlie, Blue, Sam

"All the World's a Stage I'm Going Through"

The following are the groups for our project titled "All the World's a Stage I'm Going Through".

Group 1
Ema, Ashlie, Patrick

Group 2
Desiree, Megan, Matilda

Group 3
Denis, Astrid, Sam

Group 4
Beatrice, Rebecca

Group 5
Blue, Isabella

After School Movies - The Winslow Boy

I plan to begin showing films in our classroom after school on Thursday afternoons from 3:15 to 4:00. I will begin showing these films NOT this Thursday, Jan 7, but NEXT Thursday, January 14 when we will view the first part of a film version of The Winslow Boy. Students will be expected to view certain of these films, but will not be required to view them at the after-school showing. In the case of The Winslow Boy, students are expected to watch the film, but can do so either after-school or at home on youtube. Here is the first of eleven youtube sections of the whole film.

Tentative Schedule

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

(This is the planned schedule as of January 4. It remains subject to change. You will be notified of any changes.)

From now on there will be homework on every Day 1, Day 2 and Day 6. This homework will be fifteen minutes of reflective writing on that day's class(es) submitted to the class blog. For the purpose of our class, fifteen minutes of reflective writing means fifteen minutes of your best writing and ideas that in some way go beyond just summary.

Quarter 2, Cycle 6

Day 1 - Mon, Jan 4
Period 3 - "All the World's A Stage..." - Grouping, Planning, Script Writing
Period 4 - "A Night on the Mountain" - Grouping, Planning, Script Writing
Day 2 - Tues, Jan 5 - Repertoire Scene - Rehearsal
Day 6 - Tues, Jan 12 - HW (By Day 6) = Plan 3 possible scenes from the pictures in facebook photo album at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=147802&id=1219322756&l=6520216a3e .
Period 7 - Picture Scene - Grouping, Planning, Script Writing
Period 8 - The Winslow Boy - Reading and Casting

Quarter 3, Cycle 1
Day 1 - Wed, Jan 13
Period 3, Period 4 - Repertoire Scene Rehearsal (Everyone MUST BE OFF-BOOK)
Day 2 - Thurs - Jan 14 "All the World's a Stage" - Script Writing and Rehearsal
Day 6 - Tues, Jan 19
Period 7, Period 8 - Repertoire Scene Rehearsal

Quarter 3, Cycle 2
Day 1 - Wed, Jan 20
Period 3 -"A Night on the Mountain" - Script Writing and Rehearsal
Period 4 - Picture Scene - Script Writing and Rehearsal
Day 2 - Thurs, Jan 21 - The Winslow Boy - Rehearsal
Day 6 - Wed, Jan 27
Period 7, Period 8 - Repertoire Scene - FINAL PERFORMANCE

Quarter 3, Cycle 3
Day 1 - Thurs, Jan 28
Period 3, Period 4 - Picture Scene Rehearsal
Day 2 - Monday - Feb 1 - "All the World's a Stage" - Rehearsal
Day 6 - Friday, Feb 6
Period 7, Period 8 - Picture Scene Rehearsal (Everyone MUST BE OFF-BOOK)

Quarter 3, Cycle 4
Day 1 - Monday, Feb 8
Period 3 - "All the World's a Stage" - Rehearsal
Period 4 - "A Night on the Mountain" - Rehearsal
Day 2 - Tues, Feb 9 - The Winslow Boy - Rehearsal
Day 6 - Thursday, Feb 18
Period 7, Period 8 - Picture Scene - Rehearsal

Quarter 3, Cycle 5
Day 1 - Friday, Feb 19
Period 3 - "All the World's a Stage" - Rehearsal (Everyone MUST BE OFF-BOOK)
Period 4 - "A Night on the Mountain" - Rehearsal (Everyone MUST BE OFF-BOOK)
Day 2 - Monday, Feb 22 - Picture Scene Rehearsal
Day 6 - Friday , Feb 26
Period 7, Period 8 - Picture Scene - Rehearsal

Quarter 3, Cycle 6
Day 1 - Monday, Mar 1
Period 3, Period 4 - The Winslow Boy - Rehearsal (Everyone MUST BE OFF-BOOK)
Day 2 - Tuesday, Mar 2 - Picture Scene- Rehearsal
Day 6 - Monday, Mar 8
Period 7, Period 8 - Picture Scene - FINAL PERFORMANCE

Quarter 4, Cycle 1
Day 1 - Tuesday, Mar 9
Period 3, Period 4 - "All the World's A Stage" - Rehearsal
Day 2 - Wednesday, Mar 10 - "The Hit Man" - Grouping, Planning, Script Writing
Day 6 - Tuesday, Mar 16
Period 7, Period 8 - "All the World's A Stage" - FINAL PERFORMANCE

Quarter 4, Cycle 2
Day 1 - Wednesday, Mar 17
Period 3, Period 4 - "A Night on the Mountain" - Rehearsal
Day 2 - Thursday, Mar 18 - "The Hit Man" - Script Writing and Rehearsal
Day 6 - Thursday, Mar 25
Period 7, Period 8 - "A Night on the Mountain" - FINAL PERFORMANCE

Quarter 4, Cycle 3
Day 1 - Friday, Mar 26
Period 3, Period 4 - The Winslow Boy - Rehearsal
Day 2 - Mon, Apr 12 - "The Hit Man" - Rehearsal
Day 6 - Friday, Apr 16
Period 7, Period 8 - The Winslow Boy - Rehearsal

Quarter 4, Cycle 4
Day 1 - Mon, Apr 19
Period 3, Period 4 - "The Hit Man" - Rehearsal (Everyone MUST BE OFF-BOOK)
Day 2 - Tues, Apr 20 - The Winslow Boy - Rehearsal
Day 6 - Tues, Apr 27
Period 7, Period 8 - The Winslow Boy - FINAL PERFORMANCE

Quarter 4, Cycle 5
Day 1 - Wednesday, Apr 28
Period 3, Period 4 - "The Hit Man" - FINAL PERFORMANCE
Day 2 - Thurs, Apr 29 - EXAM REVISION (ALL REMAINING CLASSES will be devoted to revision.)

PLEASE NOTE: For the purposes of our class, "OFF-BOOK" means knowing ALL LINES and not needing a script at all. It DOES NOT mean knowing some or most or even almost all lines. Rehearsal on ALL DAYS after which students are meant to be OFF-BOOK will be assessed. Students who are not OFF-BOOK at rehearsals by which they need to be will fail that day's assessment. This means that not being OFF-BOOK by the set date on several occasions will seriously bring down a quarter grade. Please make sure that this doesn't happen. Everyone has demonstrated that they can learn lines. Knowing all lines by a set date just means getting a certain part of the work out of the way early. Having time to rehearse without worrying about lines any more will greatly improve everyone's work.

Monday, January 4 - Reflection

For the remainder of the year, we will submit fifteen minutes of reflective writing each class day on that day's class(es). Today, we created groups for two projects titled "All the World's a Stage I'm going Through" and "A Night on the Mountain" and began planning and scripting them. Please submit your reflection as a comment here.