Thursday, September 4, 2014

Daily Overview First Semester 2014


 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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