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Drama 11 Journals (last updated on September 25, 2008)
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, April 1 and should reflect your work for the weeks of March 3-28.
The following items need to be in your journal duo-tang
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, February 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 Concept Sheet 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. Due on March 27.
1. Response Journal for the weeks of March 3-28. Reflect on the following activities: trust and personal space exercises, mountain activity, decontextualized dialogues and creating context exercise, beats and stakes). Due on April 1.
1. Response Journal for the weeks of March 31 - April 11. Reflect on the following activities: staredown, co-listening, cross the line, the relationships presentation and the development of the elementary drama workshops. Due on April 15.
1. Create two scene descriptions on the topic of Healthy and Unhealthy relationships 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. Due April 14.
1. Reflect on your experience of developing the collective as well as performing the it in front of a live audience at the Drama Festival. 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. Due on May 6.
Reflect on your experience with the Elementary Workshop Presentations at Robert Kemp Turner Elementary School. Answer each question fully in complete sentences. Due on May 21.
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.
Junior High Collective Final Reflection (Due on May 21)
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
1. Reflect on your experience of performing the collective in front of a live audience (both at DramaFest and 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 relationships 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. Each student must hand in their script (complete with blocking notes) from the Marvelous Monologue #2 Assignment.
2. Each student must also hand in their Character Worksheet.
1. 10 Minute Play Response Journal #1 for the week of May 21-28. (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 May 29-June 4. 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?
