Our First Friday

Here are your journal topics for our first Friday of this brand new school year! Drama 8: What should Ms. Kosar know about you? You can tell me about whether you have ever done Drama before, about what you expect from the class, about whether or not you have stage fright. If you have done Drama before, tell me about what you did (it might be in your elementary school, or at an extracurricular activity or even just in your backyard!). Do you do any other sort of performing? (sports, music, dance, something else) Do you like to perform? Drama 9: Our first project is called "heritage drama". This sort of project focuses on our diverse heritages. If we are not a member of a First Nation of Canada, then our families have immigrated here from somewhere else (it might have been long ago, or you might have come to Canada yourself). My family came from Ukraine -- my grandfather took a ship and then a train from Kiev to Saskatchewan and settled in a place called Tiny with his wife and four children. Find out when your family came and where they came from. How did they get here? Will their immigration to Canada make a dramatic story? If you have indigenous heritage, was your nation located here in BC? I encourage you to share a story from your family history, since you have been on this land since time immemorial. Senior Drama: We are going to develop an interactive performance for Hallowe'en. In our opening scenes which you performed yesterday, there were some interesting scenes that could be the source of some starting off points for our presentation. At the end of one of the scenes, an actor said, "I am the coolest kid in the school". How could that line form the end of a scary scene? Describe your idea in at least five sentences. I will give you ten minutes in class to write your journals and then I will collect your journals on Tuesday of next week. Please try to keep up with the journals. English 11: Make sure you familiarize yourself with the First People's Principles of Learning (you can look them up online). The story we just read, "Charlie" by Lee Maracle, really resonanates with the ideas that are embedded in these learning principles. Think of how Charlie's life would have been different if his school had honoured these principles of learning. Think of how Charlie's dad might have used these principles if Charlie had been able to stay home.