Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The Play! The Play is the THING!

Overview of January 16, 2013

Our Class Focus this week was the Play!  We have chosen the play for May 11th!  

Shakespearians,

Coronation was terrific.  Thanks everyone for the adulation!!!   Queen Terina says, "By Order Of The Queen, read, watch, listen to 17 plays"  and you too can be crowned royalty.

Actor Training:   Creating Imagination

  • Knitting and Weaving:  How to act as background characters.  Extras!

Actor Vocabulary:

  • Fourth Wall
  • Cheating Front
  • Audience Up
  • Focus

Leadership SKILL Training this week:

  1. It's Not About Shakespeare -- It's about raising great STATESMEN/WOMEN!  

Purpose:  Do You Have Skin in the Game

SayGoBeDo   With ten you own it!
Ownership - Responsibility - Go On The Blog - search it out.
Teach - instructing others helps you retain 95% of what you learn.
Making Class Rules:

Ten Steps Encouragement   Only 8 more weeks to turn in progress and go with us to the field trip.

Announcement:  The play we will perform will be Taming of the Shrew

WEEKLYAssignment:  

Review or read the summary, watch, listen, or talk about Taming of the Shrew.  Imagine yourself as a character in the play.

Construct an idea of the thematic structure for our staging of Taming of the Shrew,  Shakespeare wrote in a traditional structure like Renaissance, so what will be our setting?    Come with an idea and Lets brainstorm!



PARENTS:  The producer (Jenn Wilson) will be contacting you with  a list of potential needs and tasks for play production.  We plan that every child will have a parent helping with the play, so be thinking of your talents and supporting role.  



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