Drama: 11/17/09

1. Go over grades -- Yuck! It is one thing to take a test and do poorly, but to retake the exact same test and still do poorly?
2. Missing pantomime evaluations
3. Explanation: Three parts to every chapter. 1. Read, understand, and test over chapter. 2. Perform project and learn by doing. 3. Observe and evaluate others to establish understanding.
   
4. Assign next chapters. Next chapter test will be Monday, November 22.
   
5. Level 1's: Pick a group and a topic. Begin brainstorming and mapping ideas, events, and characters related to topic. On the day of the performance, teacher will give students a storyline related to their topic. Students will turn in all their preparatory brainstorming/idea lists and begin/improvise around the given storyline.
6. Level 2,3's: Group created a staging project last chapter. For this chapter, they will create a complete lighting plan for the staging project including all the details covered in their chapter.
7. Chapter presentations will begin on November 30. Students who are absent on the day of presentations will be skipped over (their group will go on without them) and/or they will be given a zero. We are dragging projects on far too long until they no longer fit with the class project due to absent students.
8. "Tell" items need to be honed to perfection. They will be performed and videotaped by the end of the grading period for a major class grade.
9. Students were given a long time to work on their chapters and projects.