Journals for February 24

 Drama 8

What fairy tale have you decided to use?  Why did you make that choice?  What role will you play?  How do you picture the role?  (You can draw a picture if you like or describe it in words.) How will you play the character (think of facial expression, gestures, actions, costumes)?  Give three adjectives that describe your character.  What is the climax of the story?  

Drama 9

What theme have you chosen for your project?  Why did you choose it?  What do you already know about it?  What is one thing about which you are curious?  You are expected to present serious and comic scenes.   Describe one serious thing about the topic and one comic thing.

Senior Drama:

All:  What is your theme?  Why did you choose it?

Directing and Scriptwriting:  Create an outline for your group's presentation.  Write one scene in detail (it can be any scene -- you can describe your tableaus or it could be the mime scene or dialogue).

Theatre Production:  Make a sketch of what your set will look like.  Make a list of the props you will need.  How will the actors dress?

Actors:  How do you fit into the theme?  What do you already know about the theme?  What sort of character could you play that would fit into the theme?  (For example, if you are exploring the toxic drug epidemic, do you know anyone who uses drugs?  What made them start?)

Meet the Teacher Handout

 

Journals for February 10

 Everyone:  To whom would you send a Crush can?  (You don't need to name them; you can just describe them.  They don't have to be an ACTUAL PERSON, even -- they can be your dream person, if you like.  What would your note say?

Senior Drama:

Actors:  How will you end "The Gift"?  Where does the scene take place?  What is the relationship between Alex and Chris?

Theatre Production:  What is in the box?  How does it fit with the scene, "The Gift"?  How do you expect the actors to react to the item in the box?  If you could choose wrapping paper, what would be on it?  (Think of a metaphor that hints at what is inside the box.)

Directing/Scriptwriting:  Whose performance in The Gift was the best?  What is the subtext of the scene?  Who are Chris and Alex?  What would happen at the end of the scene?

Drama 9:  Write a script for a Super Bowl commercial.  It should be for a real product and try to convince people to buy the product!  It should be memorable and creative.

Drama 8:  On a scale of 1 - 5, with 5 being great and 1 needs lots of improvement, how would you rate yourself at group work?  What do you do well when you are in a group?  In what way can you improve?  Are you a good leader?  Explain.  Write about a time you had to work in a group and explain what happened.  What did you learn from the experience?

Some of you have expressed an interest in the Drama Club.  We will be reading scenes from the spring play at lunch on Tuesday in the theatre.  If you want to act or help out backstage, pop in to the theatre to see what we're up to.

Drama 9 - Quotes about LOVE

 We can only learn to love by loving.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

True love stories never have endings.

I need you like a heart needs a beat.

Senior Drama -- Elements of Playbuilding

 What is "playbuilding"?

- a series of scenes related by theme!  You do not need to tell a story with your scenes, because you are giving facets of the theme rather than tracing the life of a character, or following a story arc.

- you should have both serious and comic scenes

- you must include a scene from an existing play or movie (including the actual dialogue), music, songs and dance, dialogue, a poem, several tableaus, a mime, a quote, some research on your theme (facts, historical background, surveys, etc.), a metaphor (which can act as a thread through your play) and your play must have a title (which can make use of your metaphor).

Valentine's scene

 What's the subtext?  (What's going on UNDERNEATH what they're saying?)

A:  (opening a package or envelope) Are you kidding me?

B:  Nope.  It's for real.  Well?

A:  I can't believe it.  Really, you shouldn't have done this.

B:  I had to. You know I had to.  Right?

A:  I don't see why.

B:  Come on.

A:  Really?

B:  Really,

That's the scene, except for how you want to end it.  What happens next?

Journal Time for Semester 2!

 Drama 8:  What should Ms. Kosar know about you?  Have you ever done Drama before?  What are your pronouns?  (Don't say you don't have any.  We all have them -- I want to know what you would like to be called.) Do you have stage fright?  Have you ever done any sort of performing before (dance, public speaking, sports, music)?  Is there anything else I should know?

Drama 9:  February is Black History Month.  Find out something that you could teach the class about that relates to Black History in BC.  (Ms. Kosar will give you examples in class.) Tell the story here.

Senior Drama:  Write a brief scenario based on the theme of "love is blind".  It should look something like this:

Alice and Angela stop at their lockers.  David walks by.  He doesn't notice them.

Alice:  Oh, David is so handsome.  I can't help staring at him.

Angie:  He's a creep.  He thinks he's so cool.

Alice:  Oh, no.  You're wrong.  He's so nice.  I dropped my pencil in science and he picked it up and put it on my desk.  And then, just looked at me.  I felt like I'd just die!

Angie:  Barbara went out with him and he took her out to Old Man's Cliff and then drove away and left her there.  She had to walk home.  Three miles and it was raining.  And then he laughed about it at school on Monday.  What a pig.

Alice:  Barbara deserved it.  She's a cow.

Angie:  My mom always says "beauty is only skin deep."  You're not seeing the real guy.