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Drama 11 Journals (last updated on June 11, 2007)
Please note that you will need a duo-tang for your journal responses!
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 5) will be due on Tuesday, October 24 and should reflect your work for the weeks of October 10-13 and 16-20.
Journal 1
The following items need to be in your journal duo-tang by Thursday, September 21
1. True Colors score sheet
2. True Colors - Who Pushes My Hot Buttons response
3. True Colors - What's my Growing Edge response
This is the follow-up response to your 3D Self Portrait assignment. Due Thursday, September 21
1. What new ideas or concepts did completing your own project bring you to? Describe the mental and physical process of creating your sculpture.
2. Did your classmate’s presentations surprise you? What was something you discovered about someone else that impacted upon you?
3. What kind of mark would you give your project based upon effort, process, presentation and final project?
4. Did completing the 3-D project change your own self-perception? If so, how?
1. Each student must hand in their script and the Character Worksheet from the Marvelous Monologue #1 Assignment
1. In approximately 150-300 words, discuss the Ten Minute Play you are working on. Make sure that you provide a clear context for the play (the WHO, WHERE and WHAT). If you have not yet developed your play, use this as a forum to propose possible ideas for it.
1. Response Journal for the weeks of October 10 - 20, 2006. Reflect on the following activities: trust and personal space exercises, Stare-Down, Co-Listening, and Cross the Line)
1. Create two scene descriptions on the topic of Dating Violence to be used in class for our Collective Project. Make sure that in creating your scenes, you have followed the 5 Elements of scene structure.
Oops. There is no Journal 7.
1. Response Journal for the weeks of October 23 - November 10, 2006. Reflect on the process of learning about dating Violence from our school public health nurse, the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and other sources. Also comment on the process of developing our scenes for the collective.
1. Response Journal for the weeks of November 14 - 24, 2006. 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 Reflection - Answer any four (4) of the following:
1. What did you learn about the issue of mental health awareness through your participation in the collective creation process?
2. What did you learn about yourself? Others?
3. Which parts of the process did you find the most beneficial? Why?
4. Which parts of the process did you find the most challenging? Why?
5. Reflect on your comfort level in working on a performance piece that was largely unscripted.
6. Reflect on your experience of performing the collective in front of the live audiences.
7. Explain why, as an actor, it is essential that you confidently know all of your blocking (staging) and cues?
1. Each student must hand in their script (complete with blocking notes) from the Marvelous Monologue #2 Assignment
1. Elementary School Workshop Reflection - Reflect on the process of developing and workshopping, and on the final presentation of your workshops to the elementary school students at George Bissett on December 19, 2006.
1. 10 Minute Play Response Journal #1 for the week of January 3 - 9, 2007. Week 1 of the Ten Minute Play Performance Assignment. Reflect on the process of rehearsing your play. What are the challenges? What is going well? What is not going so well? (Due January 10)
1. 10 Minute Play Response Journal #2 for the week of January 10 - 16, 2007. 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? (Due January 17)
Write a 1-2 page document addressing the following areas in detail. (Due on Monday, January 22)
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 and your SM’s management style. What were their strengths and weaknesses? If you were a director, comment on your actor’s individual strengths and weaknesses and your SM’s management style. If you were a stage manager, comment on your actor’s individual strengths and weaknesses and your director’s directing style.
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?
1. Education can be described as being moved from one mindset or mental place to another. After one has been educated, he or she sees things differently. In a sense, the person has been given another lens or framework from which to see the world. In a short (1-2 pages), well-written reflection, describe how the process, experiences, activities, performances and assignments of Drama 11 have educated you. What new skills, knowledge, or attitudes have your uncovered or discovered about yourself, others and the world through this course? If possible, relate your growth to one or two specific moments, activities or assignments in class. (Due on Friday, January 26)
