What's going on? (Journal #3 for Grade 8 and #4 for Senior Drama)

 Senior Drama:  What is your role in the Jennifer scenes?  (If you are an actor, describe your character and include the name, the personality, the voice, etc.  If you are doing production, are you running the light and sound? what music would evoke the mood you want the audience to feel?  what costumes do you need to find?  what will your set look like?) Give a brief outline of the plot.

Drama 8:  Angela lives in a blue house with her mom and her dad and her little dog, Percy.  Terry lives next door in a green house.  Terry's family doesn't like Percy, because he comes over to their yard and does his "business".  Terry's family hired Clifton to build a fence around their property to keep Percy out.  Percy dug a hole under the fence and got in Terry's yard anyway and not only did he do his business, but he dug up all Terry's mom's prize-winning roses.  Terry's mom was very upset and she even cried because she loved her roses.

The next day, Terry's dad came home with a very large dog.  The family put the large dog in the yard,  When Percy dug under the fence, the large dog was waiting for him and barked viciously and snapped at Percy.  Percy ran home and never dug under the fence again.

Answer these questions about the story:

1) Who is the main character ("the protagonist")?  Why do you think so?

2) What is the conflict?  What are two examples of rising action? 

3) What is the climax of the story?

4) What is the denouement?

5) If you were going to be in a play based on this story, who would you want to play?  Why? Write one of the lines you would say.

Journal #3 -- Senior Drama only!

 There is NO journal for Grade 8's since they have been on Adventure Days this week.

SENIOR DRAMA:

You can do this with your group -- write a script for your "Jennifer" play.  Include lighting ideas, sound effects and music and dialogue.  Use the source material to create your script.  Try to make it scary.  Think of the variety of ways of presenting material that we reviewed at the start of the course (tableaus, mime and choral speaking).

Journal #2 -- BUZZ!

 Drama 8:

On a scale of 1 - 5, with 5 being great and 1 being not at all great, how would you rate yourself at working in a group?  Explain why you rate yourself that way.  What skills can you bring to group work?  How can you improve?  (We all have skills and we can all improve.) Would you say you are a good leader?  Explain.  Write about a time you worked in a group and what you learned from it.

Senior Drama:

Jennifer wakes up in her room.  It is completely dark.  She hears a loud buzzing noise.  She turns on a light.  Describe what happens next.  (At least four sentences.)

First Journal of 2025-2026!

 All classes:

What does Ms. Kosar need to know about you?  Include if you have experience in Drama (outside classes, elementary school, improv stuff, whatever).  Do you have stage fright?  Is it very bad?  (Don't worry, we'll help you along.) What do you expect to get out of Drama?  What are your pronouns?  You can include anything else that you want to tell me.

Senior Drama ONLY:  Write about something scary that happened to you.  (Details help.)

Journal for June 6 - "Gaps of Sunlight"

 Grade 9's

For your "classic film" scenes, answer the following questions:

What will your set look like?  (you can draw it)

What is your relationship with the other character?  What does each character want?

What is your costume like?  How does it represent the character's inner thoughts and feelings?

Grade 8

You have seen "Gaps of Sunlight".  Write about the play?  What happens in the story?  Who was your favourite character?  Why?  What did you like about the play (remember, Ms. Kosar was involved, so don't say that it sucked and you hated it, or you will hurt her feelings)?  What are two things you learned about the 1980's from watching the play?

Matinees of "Gaps of Sunlight"

 If you are in B or D Block, don't forget that we are seeing "Gaps of Sunlight" (the school play) at 1:15 p.m.  The play deals with mature subject matter and has some swearing.  Tickets are $5.00, but if you can't afford it, don't worry -- just let me know.  If you are in A Block, come to one of the evening performances at 7 p.m. on June 3, 5 or 6.

Journal for May 30, 2025 -- Art for Life

 Drama 8

What is a lesson you think you need to learn?  (For me, I think I should learn to worry less about things I can't do anything about.) If you were going to create a story to teach the lesson, what would it be?  (If I was going to tell a story about not worrying, I would have a girl worrying about really silly things like "what if an alien invasion took place?" or "what if I turned into a werewolf?" -- she worries so much about the impossible things, that she forgets something important (like her best friend's birthday or something like that).  At the end, the best friend could say, "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday".

If you would like to request a certain person to work with in the final project, make sure you add their name here.  Example -- "Mary would like to work with John."

Drama 9

What do you think is the biggest problem facing the world today?  Pitch a story that you could use to put your ideas into a dramatic context.  (I worry a lot about climate change, so I might have a story about a mother orangutan and her baby in the rainforest of Borneo.  Their lives are idyllic until a logging company comes to cut down their forest.  Maybe one of the loggers encounters the mother and baby and it makes him realize that the natural world is more important than making money.)