5/28/2010

Grade: 100
I have not received a first or second draft from either of my freshmen yet.

5/26/2010

Journal:
I found this video of Brian Eno's airport music... Interesting. I could see it working for the start of the play with the airport noises. I want it to sound like this... Silence, first couple notes of the piano, HUGE swooshing of an airplane... Boooooooop... boarding announcement... Yeah, something like that.

Funny, I've been listening to the track while writing my journal, and as it goes on, I like it more. Even if it's just more the of the same over and over and over and over...

Grade: 100
I TOOK THAT STUPID EXIT EXAM.
But for legitimate grading purposes, I taught my freshmen how to use operative words in the twenty minutes I was with them. And then 8th period, we talked about the design aspects of our plays.

5/24/2010

Journal: Well, neither of my freshmen e-mailed me their papers, so I can't make comments on them... I sent them both e-mails and text messages advising them to get them to me by midnight for full credit.

I also found another image to add to my ever growing director's book:Yeah, it's a blue airport. Kinda... self-explanatory.

Grade: 100
5th & 8th: Monologue work. I feel fairly well-prepared for the exit exam.
6th & 7th: Worked with Freshmen on acting in small gym. Worked a little bit individually with each scene.

5/12/2010

Journal: Reading Fat Pig again for my exit exam monologue.

Grade: 100
Worked with Freshmen today on developing their outlines. Also went over their presentations about each director that they researched last night.

5/11/2010

Journal: I wrote a short play today called The Line.

Grade: 100
Film lecture with freshmen. Katelin talked them through the Powerpoint and then afterwards, I taught them about writing thesis papers and formatting outlines. I also repeatedly told them of the evils of the "five paragraph essay."

5/10/2010

Journal: Read through Powerpoint presentation to get an idea of what we're doing in class tomorrow...

Grade: 100
We couldn't do anything today with the Freshmen because during 6th & 7th period, they had NWEA testing during shop, for some reason... But as they came back, I sat them down and talked to them about their papers. Most of them have an idea of what they want to write about so far, so that's good.

5/7/2010

Grade: 100

Worked with Freshmen on their papers. We taught them a LOT of grammar stuff, surprisingly. They seemed to understand the movie itself pretty thoroughly. A lot of them are interested in writing about the visual aspect of the film, so we talked a lot about that.

5/6/2010

Journal: I'm working on re-memorizing my Fat Pig monologue for the exit exam. Woohoo, what fun. It's remarkable how I can still remember the Midsummer monologue from nearly two years ago because it's written in verse and can barely remember the one from Fat Pig I picked up six months ago. Whatever.

Grade: 100

Finished All the President's Men and had a discussion afterward.

5/5/2010

Journal: I looked through Ohio's curriculum today. I'll be honest, that's probably the closest thing I did to homework.

Grade: 100

We watched All the President's Men with the freshmen. They actually seem very interested in this one. Who'd have thought that My Fair Lady would bore them but All the President's Men would engross them? It's such a subtle movie and it moves a little slowly. Whatever, I'm glad they're enjoying it. They're asking a lot of questions and putting a lot of ideas out.

And on a side note, I really enjoyed teaching today.

5/4/2010

Journal: Did some research on All The President's Men today... I love this movie. So happy we're watching it. Youtube was blocked in class today so we couldn't show the freshmen Nixon's resignation, but I found it at home, so we can show it to them tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEOGJJ7UKFM

On a side note, I find it funny that Nixon's Presidential library provided the clip.

Grade: 100

Since we didn't have the DVD today and Youtube/the entire internet was blocked, we talked about the Watergate scandal with the freshmen and then taught them how to analytically watch a movie with Catch Me If You Can on Matt's laptop. I'm glad we did because it took a lot to get some of them engaged in analytical thought. I wish I had had practice the first time I had to write a critical analysis of a movie... Ha.

5/3/2010

Journal: So, I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to do for my journals anymore. The showcase is at a stand still and we have no other projects going on. I read through the script again today and made some revisions to my blocking that I plan to put into effect when we start rehearsals again, but I don't want to overwork this thing... May I ask for some guidance here?

Grade: 100
Theatre exit exam. Lord, that was easy... Then film history.