Great work today! I think we have an opening, which is probably about 2 1/2 minutes long. We should probably be aiming to fill 10-15 minutes.
I put marks up, and I hope you all took a moment to understand your mark. Many of you did not hand in a Reflective Writing Assignment, which has greatly affected your mark. I will still accept these, or if you would like to re-submit, that's good too. AND there is another one due Nov. 10th. I don't know if people actually read this, so the next person to walk up to me and say the word " hot-diggity" gets a prize!
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We had an easy day today.
We talked about slang during our attendance question. We did an activity to highlight the importance of "active listening" (and how important it is to ask questions). And we did a trust activity. Trust is very important in the drama room. We have to trust that our ideas will be respected during group work. If we don't trust others to listen to our ideas, we won't offer them. We have seen all but one of the RememDay pieces, which we will hopefully see tomorrow. These presentations are really getting us thinking about what we would like to present, but we are starting to get very close to the actual Remembrance Day assembly. Please be prepared to work very hard over the next few weeks.
I am away at a meeting on Monday, so you will be doing some reflecting and some writing in role. Be ready for it! We did an introduction to improv today.
Improvisation: acting in unplanned ways. Successful improv includes an "offer" to your scene partner. This offer should include information about one of the following: place, character, relationship, and objectives or conflict. Do not "block" your scene partner's offer, or the scene will stop dead! Improv skills are necessary to role-play, in which we take on a character in order to better understand that character's thoughts and feelings. Think of it as "walking in someone else's shoes." We do this in order to develop a character, to make them more realistic, or just to explore how other people, those different from ourselves, might experience life. Have a good weekend! Today we started work on our Remembrance Day presentation. I was very impressed with the initiative that everyone took to begin creating!
I have posted the Glossary Definitions on the Handouts page. Please refer to this before our next quiz/test, which should be at midterm. Today we went to the computer lab to look for sources for the Remembrance Day presentation. Tomorrow you will share those sources with the rest of the class, before we begin the creative process. I will post the requirements on the Handouts page.
There is also a written assignment due today. Please be proactive on finding out what needs to be handed in. I was away Wednesday on a field trip. On that day you had a little quiz, received a Writing Assignment hand-out, and developed some minimal scripts.
Today, you showed what you did with the minimal scripts and we began some script analysis. Minimal Scripts : I feel like no one really understood this activity, or just didn't try? It is one thing to decide that you will say your lines "loud" or "slow", but you did not use these elements to communicate anything about the scene or character to your audience. We will definitely revisit this activity. Writing Assignments: Please go to the Handouts page where you will find the assignment. One id for those of you in ADA2OI or ADA3OI, the other for ADA3MI or ADA4MI. Quizzes: We will take these up tomorrow. Please keep these as they will serve as your review. VOICE Qualities of Speech Being heard and understood: Projection: The ability to make yourself be heard. This does not mean to shout, instead you push the sound out from your diaphragm with lots of air, so that the those in the back row can hear you. Enunciation: also referred to as articulation, is the act of pronouncing words clearly and distinctly. Many people become careless in their speech and “Did you eat yet?” becomes “Jeet jet?” Attention should be paid to final consonants as in words like “dead” and “friend.” While your aim is clarity, avoid over-exaggerated preciseness. Expression: Now that we are sure we are being heard, we must put expression into our voices so that our audience has a better understanding of our meaning or our character’s emotions. Monotonous speech is when every word sounds the same. Pitch: just as in music, pitch refers to your voice being either high or low. A high pitch may indicate excitement, anger, or frustration. A low pitch could mean despair or disgust. Variety in pitch is called inflection, as in asking a question. Volume: A change or emphasis of volume can affect meaning, or alter mood. A loud volume can suggest anger, a low volume can suggest shyness or depression. Pause and rate: A slow delivery may suggest important ideas, sorrow, or doubt. A fast rate could indicate happiness, excitement, or anger. Rate can include the “pause” which gives emphasis to the words it precedes. Emphasis or intonation: You can change the meaning of a sentence by emphasizing different words, such as “I didn’t say that to her,” or “I didn’t say that to her.” We are beginning to explore our voices, and using them to express ideas.
First you must be heard by your audience. We do this through: projection: using lots if air to send your voice to the back of the audience enunciation: Forming words properly so that you pronounce every sound in the word Then we can create multiple meanings by adjusting: Volume: soft or loud Pace: Fast or slow, pauses Pitch: high or low Inflection: changes in pitch, emphasis on words We have had 2 days in a row where there were too many group members missing to present. We will present tomorrow NO MATTER WHAT!
There is an assignment due tomorrow. Personal Autobiographical Projection:
We rehearsed our Freeze/Movement/Freeze presentations.
We will present them tomorrow. We went over the rubric as well. Can't wait! |
Ms. Perry
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