March 28, 2016 - April 1, 2016 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

Tuesday, March 29th:
Go over agenda for the next two weeks
Rehearse!
"The Story of Hope" - Jess and Anton
Objectives
Listening
Subtext

Wednesday, March 30th: 

Went over the rehearsal schedule with the cast

Rehearsed with “The Story of Hope” with Anton and Jess

Assigned Jess an autobiography of her character – “What Happened the Last Ten Years of Hope’s Life?” Due Friday.

Tomorrow work with "This Hurts"

Thursday, March 31st: 
Went over the rehearsal and performance schedule and contract with the class

Rehearsed with "Where It Went" with Maddie and Gus 

Friday, April 1st: 
Worked with "Her Heart" with Beverly and Taraz 

March 14, 2016 - March 18, 2016 Weekly Agenda

Monday, March 14th: 

Most Pivotal Moment

“This Hurts” 

Jahayra’s scene

Helpers – 

Taraz – boyfriend

Kamron – neighbor who sees her for the first time

“They Fell” 

Not a pivotal moment but a moment based on a “media res” scene 

Joseph

Eddie 

Will give them daily work credit but must still do “most pivotal moment”

Tuesday, March 15th: 

Acting Exercises

Animal Studies

“Pivotal Moment”

“Where It Went”

Moddie – scene

Helpers: Jess, Makenzie, Beverly, Gus, Cooper

“Sad and Glad”

Cooper – scene

Christian – helper

Wednesday, March 16th: 

 Animal Studies: 

Most Pivotal Moment:

“Prologue” 

Gabriela

Michele 

Most Pivotal Moment:

“Getting It Back”

Montserrat

Julia

Helper - Nancy (A)

Most Pivotal Moment:

“Her Heart” 

Beverly 

Helper: Makenzie

Thursday, March 16th: 

Same acting exercise as Period 5: “Bound, Float, and War Machine”

Rehearse with “They Fell”

Eddie and Joseph

March 7, 2016 - March 11, 2016 Weekly Agenda

Monday, March 7th: 

Process Check:

“Her Heart”

Taraz

Beverly

Note: When Julia comes back,  work with her and Montserrat on “Getting It Back”

Tomorrow, begin working on the "Pivotal Moment"

Tuesday, March 8th: 

Subtext:

Mean teacher and student who has to go to the bathroom

Melissa and Makenzie

Druggie students and dean:

Anton is playing a student who has drugs on him

Cooper ratted on Anton to the dean

Melissa as dean is wrestling with own drug issue with diet pills

Kids came up with own subtext improvs

Wednesday, March 9th: 

Pivotal Moment:

“Sad and Glad”

Cooper

Makenzie

Thursday, March 10th: 

No one here. Nine people absent in a 19 student class.

Did not do pivotal moment due to high absenteeism; did instead 

"Physicalize the objectives":

“Seeing the Thing”

Taraz

Melissa

“The Story of Hope”

Jess

Anton

Start the Pivotal Moments regardless of number of absences tomorrow.