3rd GradeIn the short month of April, students have practiced their blocking on stage multiple times and taken their scripts home over Spring break to memorize their lines. Many students returned having all their lines memorized! Great job!! At the end of the month, students started rehearsing with practice masks. Moving on, students will be using the masks they created with Mr. Askew in rehearsal! 4th GradeI don't have 4th grade anymore, but their love for Shakespeare didn't end with not having theater anymore. On April 5th, Shakespeare To Go theater company came to present Macbeth to them! The company was impressed at how good they behaved and the students were so excited about the performance. Some felt the show was amazing and others continued to ask about the performance including how were the witches in the play turned their cool lines into a song. The company was most impressed about how a student from 404 made the connection between the red coat being a symbol of the crown. Since, there was no crown for the king in the story. Looking forward to seeing these students again in 5th grade next year! 5th Grade5th Graders are finalizing their mime stories - adding props and set details to their stories. Students set rehearsal goals and gave feedback to each other in a feedback cycle similar to writing an essay in ELA class. After writing the first draft of the essay, students share their work to get feedback, then edits their work, and share it again for feedback again. Their final draft of their essay would be the strongest of all the versions they've written. Similarly, in theater, the students go through an editing phase where they share their work for the class, then get feedback from their classmates, and go back to incorporate the feedback they received in their next rehearsal. 7th Grade7th Graders had a super short month due to testing and spring break. Students took the skeleton of the scene they sketched out in March to write some original lines for their scene. They worked on their scene for a few classes before rehearsing their scenes and sharing them for feedback in front of the audience. Like 5th graders, they engaged in the feedback process to further refine their scenes. On April 30th, teaching artists from The New Victory Theater came to do a workshop with 7T2 before seeing Around the World in 80 Days next month. They'll be back again on May 21st after they see the play. So exciting! 8th Grade8T1 had their stumble through this month after coming back from the break. This month, the students have been finishing up their tasks in the auditorium on Tuesdays. They are really coming together and it looks great. 8T2 haven't had many meets with Mr. Kevin this month due to testing, trips and spring break so the project has been on hold while students worked on other theater skills in the class. The scenes that were recorded last session have been typed out into script format. In our next step, Mr. Kevin will add additional prompts into the script to further develop the script. Our performance of Gentrification will be very interesting indeed! Next month, we will also go on a trip to see To Kill a Mockingbird. Very exciting!
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AuthorMs. Luong is the Theater Arts teacher at PS/IS30. Archives
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