Daily Course Schedule
Typical Day
15 minutes: Gathering
Activity – Drama WarmUps actor training.
These
are very specific and outlined for us in the mentor manual.
15
minutes: Lecture: Intro to Shakespeare Topics like Shakespeare’s life, poetic
language, iambic pentameter, prose vs verse, couplets, imagery, soliloquies,
mythology, Asides, Quibbles and Banters.
15
minutes: Reading Discussion: Over
the previous week’s reading assignment
15 minutes: Vocabulary: Share vocab.
discussion from previous week
15 minutes: Introduce and Discuss Writing
Topic for the next week
15
minutes: Student Presentations: ie.,
Elizabethian Life, ruling class, mysticism, Food and dining customs, death,
burial and ghosts, Clothing, Weapons,
The Four Humors, Religion, superstition 26
topic suggestions are given.
Each
student can sign up for a date and make one of these.
15 minutes: Ten step
passoffs - Signing Off
We are so frantically busy getting all of this stuff in and
the excitement level and enthusiasm is so strong that there is not much time
for peripherial socialization on side topics, but the youth will build
relationships and it is that positive direction and skill building that builds confidence
and engenders leadership skills.
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