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Drama 10 Journals (last updated on September 28, 2006)
Journal 1
1. Why are you taking drama?
2. What areas of drama interest you?
3. Have you ever seen a stage play? If yes, please tell me about some of the things you have seen.
4. Do you have any drama / theatre experience? If yes, provide a few details.
1. Describe the types of “non-language” communication used in the activities such as the gibberish problem, cave people and the chain murder endowment scene.
2. What types of “non-language” communication did you find most effective? Why?
1. In your notebook, write down the feedback you would give yourself on your poetry presentation.
2. Write about some of the positive performances you saw. Which performances made a lasting impression on you. Why?
1. Write a one page (single-spaced) response to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Hush”. What would it be like not to be able to speak? How would you communicate? What would the world be like if no-one could speak?
1. This was an in-class activity. The student finds an interesting picture of a person from a magazine, etc. and creates a unique character around what they see in the photo. The following questions get answered along the way: A) Who are you? Where are you? What are you doing? B) Get into the person’s head… What do you see, hear, touch, taste and smell? (What are your 5 senses telling you?) C) Now, staying in the moment: What are you thinking? What are you feeling (emotion)? D) Now, BE IN THAT MOMENT: Write the story of what you are experiencing. What is this person’s story (your story)? Why is this moment meaningful (and why is it worthwhile to share with an audience)?
1. Complete the Monologue Idea Sheet. (Due Thursday, October 27, 2005)
1. Complete the Character Concept Sheet. and hand in the rough draft of your monologue script (Due on the day you present your monologue)
1. Complete the Monologue Peer Evaluation Sheet.
1. How does it feel to give feedback to other students about their monologue performances? Is it something that you are comfortable doing?
2. How does it feel to receive feedback about your own performance? Describe your comfort level.
3. Which monologue performances were your favourites? Why?
1. Describe what you have to do to make mirror mime believable.
2. Describe what you have to do to make slow-motion believable.
3. Why is it important to be able to control how your body moves on stage?
1. How did the pacing and flow of your fairy tale scene change from your original
performance to the first time your group did it as a half-life scene?2. What did the half-life activity force you to do to your fairy tale story? How
did the added time pressure effect the storyline?
1. Complete blocking notes for 2 of the scripts on the Four Short Scenes handout.
1. Complete the Mime to Music Idea Sheet.
1. Complete blocking notes for the 10 Minute Play scripts (Oreos, Pimples, Questions, Is It Me, Ketchup).
1. Record the brainstorming suggestions for the Collage Collective theme.
1. List 10 scene ideas for the Collage Collective theme. Provide a brief description how each of these scenes might be performed.
1. Describe your experience of working with your group to this point (Jan 19). What has been positive? What has been negative?
Collage Journal Final Response
Answer the following questions with neat, well-written paragraphs in your journal duo-tang:
1. a) For you, what was the best part of the Collage Collective experience? (Or, if you had an absolutely awful experience, what was the “least worse” part?)
b) For you, what was the worst part of the Collage Collective experience?
2. What did you learn about yourself with regard to the Collage Collective experience?
3. What did you learn about yourself and your ability to work with a group?
4. Reflect on the pressures of putting on a play. Is it a worthwhile endeavor? What would you have done differently? How did the time pressure affect you?
