I began the day working on a project Ms. Danni needed help on. For the new website we are including a dining and lodging page. The page will consist of local places to eat and stay while attending the theatre. My job was to go through the information Ms. Danni had already gathered and add what was missing. For example each resturant need to have a phone number, address, hours, website if available, and a brief description listed. Here is sample:
The Powerhouse
208.788.9184
411 N. Main St.
Sun – Sat 11:30am-10:00pm, Happy Hour 3:00pm-6:00pm
Located in the heart of downtown Hailey Idaho, Power House Pub and Bike fit studio has everything from the best burgers in the valley to bike supplies and repair. Casual atmosphere
to avoid having to make up description I usually used he ones found online or took them directly from their websites. I was able to research and get through and add missing information pretty quickly. I then sent it back to Ms. Danni for reviewing!
Once I had finished that project I went over the curriculum I had put together for the middle schoolers with Ms. Denise. Ms. Denise then picked some games from my list and added some others. Hopefully they would go over well with the students :/ I then of course did my normal P.O. run and then back to the office.
I started to do some work on preparing for my share. I went through my blog and picked out the titles that stuck out and thought would be good to use. I have seven I definitely would like to use for the share. Now, the task is taking all the information and what I have learned and put it together in a "script" to share. I also put together a to-do list for myself for the next few days. I feel like I fill my days better and manage my time much better if I have a list to refer to.
It was just about time for class, and I headed to the middle school. I left a bit early so I could return my Grammy's phone call, and meet Ms. Denise who wasn't too far behind. When we arrived we found the room we work in was locked. So we waited outside the office like small children waiting for the principle until we were able to get a key. The students were in the library and we sat until they were finished in there. We were unable to get a key, but the man in charge of the program was able to get one of the school staff to open the door for us. Ms. Denise was cracking me up talking with this group of students and getting to know them. They stuff she learned was very interesting. Once the door was opened the group separated and half came into class and half went onto to another activity.
We began class today with Family Portrait. We separated the students into three groups of four, A,B, and C. Ms. Denise then assigned them the family they were to be. First we had a family of super models, then a family of vampires. next and family of the oldest most popular high school students. We went through the groups about three times and then moved into Tag Photography. Ms. Denise and I kind of made his up as we went along because the directions were not very clear. So the students and we struggled with it, so note to us probably not the best exercise to use until we get clear and concise directions. The most successful exercise was probably the Anything Store once they were able to commit and get into it. In this exercise, there is a shopkeeper and a customer. At the anything store the shopkeeper has anything and everything you would want. The customer comes in and the shopkeeper in turn has to mimic and imitate everything thing he or she does. It is very comical and revealing when the students committed to it and had fun with the exercise. We ended with group sculpture, and the last sculpture we did was last day of the class! They seemed excited.
After teaching I headed to the Merriweather building to do some learning. I was early so I began to do some warming up and working on my monologues. When Beth arrived we went through the full warm-up and then dove into monologue work. Originally Beth had me working on an angry piece, but with time in short supply we had to get to work on the monologues for the share. I felt like I was making good progress, but began to get frustrated towards then end, because it wasn't quite clicking. The rest of the week I'm going to be spending a lot of time in the Merriweather to have my voice, body, and acting all come together! Until tomorrow...
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