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Drama 11 Journals (last updated on April 13, 2010)
Journal Portfolio Assignment - Journals will be handed in every two weeks on the work covered in the during that time. The first journal in this format (Journal 2) will be due on Tuesday, September 22 and should reflect your work for the weeks of September 3 - 18.
Journal 1
The following items need to be in your journal duo-tang
2. True Colors - Who Pushes My Hot Buttons response
3. True Colors - What's my Growing Edge response
1. Response Journal for the weeks of September 3-18. You may choose to reflect on one, some or all of the following activities: True Colors, warm up and games, character development and monologue preparation.
1. Each student must hand in their script and the Character Concept Sheet from the Marvelous Monologue #1 Assignment
1. Response Journal for the weeks of September 21 - October 2. You may choose to reflect on one, some or all of the following activities: Monologue Performance, Putting Down the Dog, Tableaux, Beats and Stakes, "Only You" Scene work
1. Complete the Things I Know, Important Points and Questions sheet for the Young Playwrights Page reading
1. Response Journal for the weeks of October 5 - 22. You may choose to reflect on one, some or all of the following activities: Personal Space (including the mountain activity), Open Scenes, 5 Elements, Choral Soundscape, Playreading Activity, Playwriting Tips, Elementary Workshop Preparation
Reflect on your experience with the Elementary Workshop Presentations at Robert Kemp Turner Elementary School. Answer each question fully in complete sentences.
1. Considering the work we did at the start of the semester with True Colors, how did your brightened color help or hinder you in the process of developing and delivering this workshop? Did you find you had to draw on your other colors in certain circumstances? Explain.
2. What did you learn about your ability to work collaboratively?
3. Which parts of the process did you find the most rewarding? Why?
4. Which parts of the process did you find the most challenging? Why?
5. Comment on the differences you noticed in working with the different age groups and energy levels throughout the morning.
1. Response Journal for the weeks of November 5 - 20. You may choose to reflect on one, some or all of the following activities: Staredown, Co-Listening, Cross the Line, Collective Preparation
1. Response Journal for the weeks of November 24 - December 4. Reflect on the continuing process of developing our scenes for the collective, as well as the editing and organization process to turn the scenes into a complete performance.
Junior High Collective Final Reflection
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
1. Reflect on your experience of performing the collective in front of a live audience at the junior high schools.
2. Reflect on your comfort level in working on a performance piece that was largely unscripted.
3. Explain why, as an actor, it is essential that you confidently know all of your blocking (staging) and cues?
Answer any two (2) of the following:
4. What did you learn about the issue of IMAGE through your participation in the collective creation process?
5. What did you learn about yourself? Others?
6. Which parts of the process did you find the most beneficial? Why?
7. Which parts of the process did you find the most challenging? Why?
1. 10 Minute Play Response Journal #1 for the week of December 15 - January 7. (Week 1 of the Ten Minute Play Performance Assignment.) Reflect on the process of beginning to rehearse your play. What are the challenges? What is going well? What is not going so well?
1. 10 Minute Play Response Journal #2 for the week of January 8 - 14. Week 2 of the Ten Minute Play Performance Assignment. Reflect on the process of rehearsing your play. What are the new developments since last week? What are your feeling towards the impending performance?
Write a 1-2 page document addressing the following areas in detail.
1. Reflect back on the experience of performing / directing / stage managing. What was it like to take on that role? What are some of the challenges that the role offered you? What were the three key questions you struggled with while you were working on your piece?
2. What did you learn from the Fine Arts night experience? This could be technical, craft-orientated, personal, or philosophical in nature.
3. Evaluate your participation over the last 2 weeks. Tell me what you contributed to the show and what props / costuming you brought in. How big of a role did you play onstage and behind the scenes for Fine Arts Night? Give yourself a mark out of ten.
4. If you were an actor, comment on your director’s directing style. What were their strengths and weaknesses? If you were a director, comment on your actor’s individual strengths and weaknesses and the production manager’s management style. If you were a production manager, comment on the director’s directing and cast management styles.
5. In your opinion, who were the strong performers in our class? What made them stand out?
6. What were the pieces you enjoyed the most and why?
