Grade 8's:  Your last journal topic of the term is:  Which one of the morals from the Aesop's stories is a lesson that is significant to you?  (It doesn't have to be a story you've chosen to act out.)  Explain why. 

Take your scripts home and read your lines out loud.  Then you will have memorized them before you know it.  It might seem like a big challenge to learn lines, but it isn't.  You are all more than capable of committing far more material to memory than you think.  And it's great exercise for your brain!  Think of the Greek poet, Homer, who used to recite "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" from memory.  Or Shakespearean actors, who performed plays in repertoire -- one day they'd perform "Hamlet" and the next day "As You Like It".  An actor like Richard Burbage (one of Shakespeare's most well-loved performers) would have been playing leads in several plays at once.

Grade 9's and 10's:  You need to knuckle down to rehearsal in the next two days as you will have to perform on Monday and Tuesday of next week.  Theatre Production:  Your sound and light shows and props are due then, as well.