Monday, January 24 AP English

• Hand back papers and grades • Review for final

Advanced Acting

• Read through Translated From Arabic 7/8 Theatre

• Work on ten-minute plays Friday, January 21 AP English

• Literary theory and Ceremony • Timed writing on Ceremony

Advanced Acting

• Overview and problem solving from last night’s performance 7/8 Theatre

• Work on revising ten-minute plays Thursday, January 20 Intro to Theatre

• Finish reading tree play • Monologue workshop

Advanced Creative Writing

• Work on museum pieces for the womb Musical Theatre

• Watch How to Succeed Wednesday, January 19 AP English

• Responses to Ceremony • Big paper

o Is Tayo healed? o What is the meaning/theme of the text? o Is this an environmental novel? o Is this a political/pacifist novel? o What is the ceremony?

o Silko’s style: characteristics/advantages/disadvantages? Advanced Acting

• Run through The Children’s Hour 7/8 Theatre

• Read and discuss ten-minute plays Tuesday, January 18 Intro to Theatre

• Read The Yellow Belly Ponderosa Project Advanced Creative Writing

• Letter/Day in the Life poster • Complete bowling writing

Musical Theatre

• Partay • Reflection

Monday, January 17 NO SCHOOL – MLK Friday, January 14 AP English

• What is the healing process? • How do you heal? • Listen to page 176 on in Ceremony

Advanced Acting

• Finish Act Two, Scene Two/Start Act Three 7/8 Theatre

• Showing relationship through action Thursday, January 13 Intro to Theatre

• Monologue selection

Advanced Creative Writing • Creative Writing Goes To The Museum

Musical Theatre • Run Act Two of Hot Pink, Murder!

Wednesday, January 12 AP English

• One page paper panels • Ceremony guide/discussion

Advanced Acting

• Run Act Two, Scenes 1 & 2 7/8 Theatre

• Relax/Concentrate • Improvisations

Tuesday, January 11 Intro to Theatre

• Rasaboxes o Warm-ups o Sound improvisation o Text

Advanced Creative Writing

• Creative Writing Goes Bowling Musical Theatre

• Run Act Two of Hot Pink, Murder! Monday, January 10 NO SCHOOL – Power outage Friday, January 7 AP English

• Ceremony discussion Advanced Acting

• Run lines/work tech 7/8 Theatre

• Fun Friday: Devise an improvisation around a painting and a prop Thursday, January 6

Intro to Theatre

• Rasaboxes work Advanced Creative Writing

• Letter writing: Who do you need to handwrite a letter to? • A day in the life poster

Musical Theatre

• Run Act One of Hot Pink, Murder! Wednesday, January 5 AP English

• Silko storytelling video • Read “Lullaby” • Opening pages of Ceremony

Advanced Acting

• Run Act One (The Children’s Hour) 7/8 Theatre

• Principles of Acting: Relaxation, Concentration, Observation • Who, What and Where (Theatre Games for the Classroom)

Tuesday, January 4 Intro to Theatre

• Open Viewpoints • Rasaboxes introduction

Advanced Creative Writing

• 100 things that make us happy • Update photos and questions for Wandering Womb

Musical Theatre

• Run dances in dance room Monday, January 3 AP English

• Introduction to Ceremony o Quotes and photos (Lee Marmon text)

• Silko poetry • Native American literature

Advanced Acting • Run Act One (The Children’s Hour)

7/8 Theatre

• Principles of Acting: Relaxation, Concentration, Observation Friday, December 17 Intro to Theatre Take a look at some fringe shows …

• The Right Place at the Right Time • Mr. Serling

Advanced Creative Writing • Sedona! The Fringe Festival • Personal Narratives

Musical Theatre

• Act II Run Thursday, December 16 Intro to Theatre Take a look at some fringe shows …

• Too Close to the Sun • Here • Arrhythmia

Advanced Creative Writing • Sedona? • Next Semester’s Plan

o Letter Writing o Teach a Lesson o Poetry o Fiction o Multigenre

• Personal Narratives Musical Theatre

• Act I Run Wednesday, December 15 AP English

• Listen to the last ten pages of The Crossing • Five Questions on The Crossing

Advanced Acting

• The Children’s Hour, Act II, Scene 2 7/8 Theatre

• Finish open dialogue with stage movement exercise • Characters: 1-10 – status, education, religion, class • Open dialogue with stage movement, Take II

Tuesday, December 14 Intro to Theatre

• Fringe Talk • Look at two more shows

Advanced Creative Writing

• Fringe Talk Musical Theatre

• Act through the rest of the show Monday, December 13 AP English

• Timed writing – student samples • Quiz on Chapter III of The Crossing • Share subjective commentaries

Advanced Acting

• Actors and techies: Keep on moving on with The Children’s Hour 7/8 Theatre

• Quiz on theatre terms Friday, December 9 AP English

• Eighth Annual Senior Spelling Bee (preliminary rounds) • Four-panel graphic comic most important pieces of last night’s reading

Advanced Acting

• Continue working Act Two, begin Act Three 7/8 Theatre

• Friday Fun Day

Thursday, December 8 Intro to Theatre

• Rehearsal performances: o Mindblowing o Girl in Glass o What Does the Drag Queen Say

Advanced Creative Writing

• Read and discuss second half of tree play Musical Theatre

• Sing through all songs Wednesday, December 7 AP English

• Group work and presentations on The Crossing o Subjective Commentaries o Important passages o Questions o Possible Themes

Advanced Acting

• Techies: Paint/Construct Set • Actors: Finish Act One, begin rehearsing Act Two

7/8 Theatre

• Stage Geography, Types of Stages, Definitions of Acting, Theatrical Shorthand • Chain Murder Endowment (game) • Animals (game)

Tuesday, December 6 Intro to Theatre

• Rehearsal Performances o So, You’re Arima o We Need to Talk o Invitation

Advanced Creative Writing

• Read and discuss first half of tree play Musical Theatre

• All I Care About choreography (Caleb, Max, Charlie)

Monday, December 5 AP English

• Discussion on The Crossing • Timed Writing

Advanced Acting

• Actors: Ideas, watch a piece of the film, begin to work Act One • Techies: Begin set construction

7/8 Theatre Friday, December 3 Intro to Theatre

• (Talent Show: No Class)

Advanced Creative Writing • Final table talk/idea sharing on tree play

Musical Theatre

• Act One acting Thursday, December 2 Intro to Theatre

• Rotations C & D Advanced Creative Writing

• Read and discuss Tests, Enemies, and Allies scenes Musical Theatre

• Time Warp choreography (Coco) • Act One acting

Wednesday, December 1 AP English

• Most profound insight into the first reading of The Crossing • Subjective commentaries • Listen to old man scene

Advanced Acting

• Read and discuss Act Two • Techies: Tear down Fuddy Meers

7/8 Theatre • Bad Acting/Good Acting

Tuesday, November 30 Intro to Theatre

• Rotations A & B Advanced Creative Writing

• Writing day: Tests, Enemies, and Allies Musical Theatre

• Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch choreography (Cat) Monday, November 29 AP English

• Watch beginning of Persepolis • Cormac McCarthy groupwork

Advanced Acting

• Tech talk • The Children’s Hour Compositions

7/8 Theatre

• Watch a scene from Act Three of Our Town • Pre-Acting questionnaire • Bad Acting • Watch a scene from Nightwalk

Tuesday, November 23 Intro to Theatre

• Business meeting on each rotation (props, costumes, sets, etc.) Advanced Creative Writing

• Read through what we have done so far (Act Two) • Map out the rest of the forest play

Musical Theatre

• Act One: Acting Monday, November 22 AP English

• Panel presentations on Persepolis (15 minutes each)

Advanced Acting

• Begin The Children’s Hour 7/8 Creative Writing

• Final writing/workshop day for ten-minute play Friday, November 18 AP English

• Look at four-panel graphic novels • Responses to Persepolis • Groupwork on Perspolis (political reportage, portrait of a culture, memoir,

coming-of-age story, graphic text) Advanced Acting

• Recap on last night’s performance 7/8 Creative Writing

• Continue writing ten-minute play. Thursday, November 17 Intro to Theatre

• Fringe Rehearsals: Rotations A & B Advanced Creative Writing

• Groupwork writing act two of the forest play Musical Theatre

• Choreograph “Someone to Love” (Aspen) Wednesday, November 16 AP English

• Responses to Apocalypse Now • The Grahc Novel: An Introduction

Advanced Acting • Tech: Cue to cue

7/8 Creative Writing

• Continue writing ten-minute play. Tuesday, November 15

Intro to Theatre • Fringe Rehearsals: Rotations C & D

Advanced Creative Writing • Groupwork writing act two of the forest play

Musical Theatre

• Choreograph “Telephone” (Sotida) Monday, November 14 AP English

• Finish Apocalypse Now • Discuss two-page paper on Power/Compare or Contrast between Heart of

Darkness and The Bleeding of the Stone Advanced Acting

• Run Act One 7/8 Creative Writing

• Continue writing ten-minute play: Character Biographies due to me by the end of class.

Friday, November 12 Intro to Theatre

• Fringe Rehearsals: Rotations A & B

Advanced Creative Writing • Divide into groups for writing act two of the forest play

Musical Theatre

• Choreograph “Somewhere Only We Know” (w/ Aspen, Nicole, and Lyla) Thursday, November 11 NO SCHOOL: VETERAN’S DAY Wednesday, November 10 AP English

• First half of Apocalypse Now Advanced Acting

• Run Act II • Techies map as actors run

7/8 Creative Writing

• Continue writing ten-minute play: Ideas due to me by the end of class. Tuesday, November 9 Intro to Theatre

• Fringe Rehearsal: Rotations C & D Advanced Creative Writing

• Group write fourth scene (“Meeting the Mentor”) of the forest play. Musical Theatre

• Choreograph “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (w/ Kaiya)

Monday, November 8 AP English

• Groupwork: form, content, and yuku chatroom Advanced Acting

• Run Act I • Techies map as actors run

7/8 Creative Writing

• Begin writing ten-minute play: Brainstorm, share ideas … Friday, November 5 AP English

• Groupwork: form, content, and yuku chatroom Advanced Acting

• Act II Run • Tech: Finish set

7/8 Creative Writing

• What is Art? Compositions w/ Buss’ class Thursday, November 4 Intro to Theatre

• Rotations A & B: Blocking

Advanced Creative Writing • Go into the forest and brainstorm/compose

Musical Theatre

• Hot Pink, Murder! analysis • Lauren: measurements

Wednesday, November 3 AP English

• Africa: Desert Odyssey • Reading experiences

Advanced Acting

• Act I Run (off-book) • Tech: Begin to wrap-up stagework

7/8 Creative Writing

• Perform photograph scenes • Compose and perform overheard dialogue scenes

Tuesday, November 2 Intro to Theatre

• Rotations C & D Compositions Advanced Creative Writing

• Idea sharing • How are we going to write the play? • Read sample children’s play

Musical Theatre

• Hot Pink, Murder! Composition

Monday, November 1 AP English

• SAS Curriculum: revising your paper • Yuku: Bleeding of the Stone • Terms for Bleeding of the Stone

Friday, October 29, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Rotation A & B Composition

Advanced Creative Writing • Posting to Wandering Womb

Musical Theatre

• Begin rehearsing winter musical • Duties, responsibilities, etc.

Thursday, October 28, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Rotations D & A Rehearsal Advanced Creative Writing

• Research day for Forest Play Musical Theatre

• Musical of the Day: Chicago • Finish reading Hot Pink, Murder and discuss • View Pippin performances

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 AP English

• Discussion on Part III of Heart of Darkness • Exam on the novel

Advanced Acting

• Work Act II 7/8 Creative Writing

• Read sample ten-minute plays • Differences between a full-length and a ten-minute • The 12-Line Scene

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Rehearsal for Rotations B & C Advanced Creative Writing

• Finish Crow & Weasel • Research day for the Forest Play

Musical Theatre

• Musical of the Day: The Music Man • Read through Hot Pink, Murder!

Monday, October 25, 2010 AP English

• Discussion on Part II of Heart of Darkness • HOD timed writing

Advanced Acting • Run Act One

7/8 Creative Writing

• Finish reading Our Town/discussion on the play Friday, October 22, 2010 AP English

• Literary circles discussion on Part I of HOD Advanced Acting

• Run Act One 7/8 Creative Writing

• Continue reading Our Town Thursday, October 21, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Read-through scripts for Rotations C & D • Rotation A rehearsal

Advanced Creative Writing

• Go into the woods and freewrite • Brainstorming session

Musical Theatre

• Performances of Pippin Wednesday, October 20, 2010 AP English

• Discussion, Part I of Heart of Darkness Advanced Acting

• Work Act Two 7/8 Creative Writing

• Begin reading Our Town Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Begin Fringe rehearsals: Look at scripts, highlight lines, read-through/discuss rounds A and B

Advanced Creative Writing

• Psychology of K-5 graders • Read Ponderosa Pete” • Read Crow & Weasel

Musical Theatre

• Final Pippin rehearsal Monday, October 18, 2010 AP English

• Read conference papers Advanced Acting

• Acting: Scenes 5, 6, 7 • Tech: Construct set

7/8 Creative Writing

• Read personal narratives • Begin playwriting

Friday, October 15, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Rehearsal Process • Memorization

Advanced Creative Writing

• Begin “Yellow Belly Ponderosa” Project: NAU Visiting Scholars Musical Theatre

• Pippin rehearsal Thursday, October 14, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• What works on stage? Using different acting techniques • View Compositions

Advanced Creative Writing

• Final Writing/Workshop Day Musical Theatre

• Musical of the Day: Once Upon A Mattress • Melody • Pippin Rehearsal

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 AP English Advanced Acting

• Tech: Design • Acting: Scenes 3-4

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Poetry Poker • Writing the Personal Narrative

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Composition # 3: Composing around a question Advanced Creative Writing

• Writing/Workshop Day Musical Theatre

• Musical of the Day: Into the Woods • Finding the impetus behind your character • Rhythm • Pippin Rehearsal

Monday, October 11, 2010 AP English

• Wrap-up discussion Advanced Acting

• Tech: Design • Acting: Scenes 1-2

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Writing exercises

Friday, October 8, 2010 AP English

• Discussion on essential questions Advanced Acting

• Tech: Clean up space/Begin design work • Acting: Character Work

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Draw and act out scenes • Questions Only

Thursday, October 7, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Composition #2: Love/Reunion Advanced Creative Writing

• Continue working on Fringe play Musical Theatre

• Character Building • Acting the Song • Pippin groups

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 AP English Literature and Composition

• “Lamb”/”Tyger” • One-page paper summaries • Essential questions of Narcissus and Goldmund

Advanced Acting

• Fuddy Meers Composition • Distribute tech roles • Deconstruct Illusion set

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Read ABC story or 13 Ways of Looking at Art Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Montage Composition: Love and Loss

Advanced Creative Writing

• Continue working on Fringe play Musical Theatre

• Musical of the Day: Rooms • Pippin: Preparation and Script Analysis

Monday, October 4, 2010 AP English

• Chapters 1-8 in Narcissus and Goldmund • Writing a thesis statement

Advanced Acting

• Chapter 8 And Then You Act discussion • Finish the Second Exercise • Tech theatre talk/Fuddy Meers finish read-through

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Good writing vs. bad writing • What is poetry?

Friday, October 1, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Vocal Viewpoints with text • The Chair Exercise

Advanced Creative Writing

• Continue working on Fringe play Musical Theatre

• Second half of acting auditions Thursday, September 30, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Open Viewpoints session • Vocal Viewpoints

Advanced Creative Writing

• Problem solving in playwrighting • Continue working on Fringe play

Musical Theatre

• First half of acting auditions Wednesday, September 29, 2010 AP English Lit & Comp

• Peer editing of timed writings • Multiple choice on the AP exam

Advanced Acting

• Roles in technical theatre • Read through of Fuddy Meers

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Poetry of Langston Hughes • Dream Flag Poetry Project

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Recap of Physical Viewpoints • Open Viewpoints session

Advanced Creative Writing

• Continue working on Fringe play Musical Theatre

• Dance auditions (Sotida) Monday, September 27, 2010 AP English Lit & Comp

• Writing: What you should know • Timed writing

Advanced Acting

• Chapter 7 And Then You Act discussion • The Second Exercise: The Phone Call

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Exquisite Corpse • Eat Cat, You Poop • Thirteen Ways of Looking At Art

Friday, September 24, 2010 AP English Lit & Comp

• Writing: Thesis statements, MLA Advanced Acting

• Chapter 5 And Then You Act discussion • Finish First Exercise

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Exercise 10: Make a Banner of Your Day Thursday, September 23, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Physical Viewpoints: Introduction Advanced Creative Writing

• Playwriting: Format and rubric • Read through Wilder’s “The Long Christmas Dinner”

Musical Theatre

• Singing auditions Wednesday, September 22, 2010 AP English Lit & Comp

• Schools of literary criticism Advanced Acting

• Chapter 4 And Then You Act discussion • First Exercise: Habits at Home

7/8 Grade Creative Writing

• Make an encouraging banner

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 Intro to Theatre

• Three characters in a situation Advanced Creative Writing

• Playwriting: Intro and overview Musical Theatre

• Finish viewing Kiss Me Kate