Welcome to the Theatre, Grade 8's

 Drama 8:  What should Ms. Kosar know about you?  Do. you have stage fright?  How bad is it, if you have it?  Do you have any experience performing?  (even if you are a musician, or an athlete or a dancer, or a public speaker)?  What do you hope to learn in Drama?  You can share whatever else you might want to share that will help me teach you.  Also, please let me know if you prefer certain pronouns.

Senior Drama:  Actors and Directors: What is the most dramatic thing that ever happened to you?  How could you exaggerate it to make it into a melodrama?

Theatre Production:  The play "I Shot Santa" is set at various Christmases.  How should we decorate the theatre?  (Drawings are good.)

Remembrance Day journal

Senior Drama:  Why do we observe Remembrance Day?  What purpose does it serve? 

Outline for the essay on "The Father"

Paragraph 1:  How will you start?  What is your thesis?

Paragraph 2:  Three pieces of evidence.

Paragraph 3:  What do you conclude from the evidence you have cited?

Welcome to the 305th day of the year!

 Drama 8:  Which of the Aesop's Fables lessons do you need to learn?  Explain why.

Senior Drama:  Hey!  Lots of you "forgot" to do last week's journal!!

This weeks?  What did you contribute to "The Cursed Carnival of Chaos"?  (Actors -- what role did you play?  Directors/Scriptwriters -- what did you contribute to the script?  what ideas did you have about staging? costumes? sound?  light?  what else?  Theatre production -- did you build something?  did you do lighting or sound?  did you think of costumes or how the set would look? what did you do while the show was running?)

How did the show go?  (Provide details.)

English 9:  Look on Teams to see the instructions for the literary essay about "The Father".  It is due on Friday, November 8.  

Journal for Friday, October 18

 Drama 8:  What effect will using the lighting that you have chosen have on your presentation of "The Creation of the World"?  Who do you think is leading your group?  Explain why.  Is anyone holding the group back?  Explain your answer.

Senior Drama:

Theatre Production:  Create a poster that will advertise the "Cursed Carnival of Chaos".

Actors:  Write a short scene featuring you and at least one other actor that you could perform in the hallways to create interest in the "Cursed Carnival of Chaos".

Director/Scriptwriters:  Figure out a rehearsal schedule for the next two weeks that will prepare us for the show.  (You can do this collectively.)

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English 9:  Why is it important to vote?  Do you think they should lower the voting age?  Explain your answer.

Read the following and answer the questions.  Due on Tuesday, October 22.

Updates for October 16

English 9:

 Great poetry presentations, everyone!  Lots of fun.  Please return your poetry books if you have not already.

We will start with Short Stories next.  No reading log today because of the presentations.

Drama 8:  Learn your lines for The Creation of the World.

Senior Drama:  Learn your lines for the "Cursed Carnival of Chaos".  Theatre production folks -- think of what a poster to advertise the show might look like.

Fewer/less -- English 9

 Use "fewer" if you can count the items.   Use "less" when it is an amount of something.

The Narrative Paragraph tells a story.  The first sentence tells the reader what event you will relate.  The three middle sentences tell what happened.  The final sentence can tell us why it is worth telling the story, or why it matters to you, or how the event ended.