Thursday, April 30

Reminder: Complete live performance reviews ASAP!

Remember: at the end of The Tempest, you will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

Finished watching Acts 2 and 3 in the Stratford stage production of The Tempest.
Began reading Acts 4 and 6 in our abridged script.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Wednesday, April 29

Reminder: Complete live performance reviews ASAP!

Students shared notes on production challenges for The Tempest.
Remember: at the end of The Tempest, you will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

Continued watching Acts 2 and 3 in the Stratford stage production of The Tempest.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Tuesday, April 28

Reminder: Complete live performance reviews ASAP!

Reviewed challenges to producing The Tempest, as we have noted them so far.
Remember: at the end of The Tempest, you will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

Finished reading Act 3 in the abridged script of The Tempest.
Continued watching Act 2 in the Stratford stage production of The Tempest.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Monday, April 27

Reminder: Complete live performance reviews ASAP!

Reviewed challenges to producing The Tempest, as we have noted them so far.
Remember: at the end of The Tempest, you will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

Finished watching Act 2 in the film production of The Tempest.
Began reading Act 3 in the abridged script of The Tempest.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Friday, April 17

Reminder: Complete reviews of And Then There Were None ASAP!

Remember: at the end of The Tempest, you will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

Finished reading Act 2.
Continued watching Act 1 and 2 in the film production of The Tempest.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Thursday, April 16

Reminder: Complete reviews of And Then There Were None ASAP!

Remember: at the end of The Tempest, you will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

Finished watching Act 1 of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of the play.
Discussed strategies taken by both the film director and the Stratford Festival productions of the play; students took notes on their organizers.

Assigned roles; began reading Act 2. 

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Wednesday, April 15

Reminder: if you missed reading Act 1 of our abridged script for The Tempest, you need to catch up with the class. Complete reviews of And Then There Were None ASAP!

Review: at the end of The Tempest, students will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

Continued watching Act 1 of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of the play.
Discussed various production and performance decisions around the play.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Tuesday, April 14

Reminder: if you missed reading Act 1 of our abridged script for The Tempest, you need to catch up with the class.
Shared some ideas on challenges to staging the play.
At the end of our study of the play, students will hand in a 3--5 paragraph essay analyzing:

1. The challenges to staging the play in general
2. Some of the ways the productions we will be sampling on film approached those challenges
3. How you would handle the challenges for a small, local production of the play.

With that in mind, students were encouraged to take notes as we watched the opening scenes of the 2009 movie version and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of the play.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Monday, April 13

Read and discussed Act 1 of the English Class in Performance abridged script for The Tempest.
Began discussing challenges to staging the play.

DUE DATES

FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Friday, April 10

Concluded performances of "Here We Are."Students shared feedback via rubric; performers were also graded.
Read summary of Act 1 of The Tempest.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!) 
FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Thursday, April 9

Short class today due to 2 hour delay schedule.
Continued performances of "Here We Are."
Students shared feedback via rubric; performers were also graded.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!) 
FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Wednesday, April 8

Began performances of "Here We Are."
Students shared feedback via rubric; performers were also graded.
Distributed copies of our next play, an abridged version of The Tempest.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!) 
FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Tuesday, April 7

Short classes due to early release schedule.
Reviewed requirement for a second theatrical review essay.

Groups ran lines for "Here We Are."

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!) 
FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Monday, April 6

Groups ran lines for "Here We Are."

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!) 
FRIDAY, May 22: LAST DAY TO HAND IN SECOND THEATER REVIEW!

Friday, April 3

Choral memory exercise for "Here We Are."
Groups ran lines.

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!)

Thursday, April 2

Re-do of the Chapter 14 reading quiz.  (Results will be averaged).

Students ran lines for "Here We Are."

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!)

Wednesday, April 1

Reading quiz on Chapter 14 in Basic Drama Projects, "Practicing Basic Movement."

Students ran lines for "Here We Are."

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 8: Perform "Here We Are."  (MUST BE OFF BOOK!)