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For our speech unit in drama, we needed to make two speeches. The first speech we created was our one minute speech. For this speech, we could choose any topic if it was our hobby. In this speech we were not aloud to use any cards and we needed to remember main points in our [...]

In drama class, we needed to make a speech about our passion. The length of the speech needed to be about 1-2 minutes. We could make our own script and memorize parts of it or we could just make some bullet points about what to say. However, we could not make/look at any palm cards. This is [...]

In Drama class today, we watched a movie called “Smile, Charlie Chaplin , Modern Times, 1936 “. This movie only uses music to explain the mood and it does not use any voice. This video uses a sentences only two times. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ps6ck1ejoAw” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> How are the actors showing emotion? The actors [...]

In drama class we did a activity which was to make a locked door by mime and to go through the door. We did this activity in groups of two. 7B Drama: Mime Door from YIS Arts on Vimeo. My group thought about going through the cat door. I used my facial expression and body [...]

In Drama our unit was about creating a dance.  We chose our partners (2-4) and we made our dance with our partners. We also needed to choose a music matching the dance. <iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/41057408?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0″ width=”400″ height=”300″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> My feedback was that we had all the elements and our dance was very creative, [...]

At Drama class the class watched a video “singing in the rain” for an example for our dance. For our dance we will need to use about 3 props in groups of 2-4. We are not aloud to wear the props as a costume. We will need to use them for our dance like Gene [...]

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Today at Drama class we had a small talk about our hobbies to the whole class. We were planning this from 2 weeks ago and we worked at it during homework and at class. We wrote note cards to remind us when we have no idea what to say during the talk. When I started [...]

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/31708055?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0″ width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/31708055″>6C Ice Scream 1</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/yisacademics”>YIS Academics</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> <iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/31708253?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0″ width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/31708253″>6C Ice Scream 2</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/yisacademics”>YIS Academics</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> <iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/31708405?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0″ width=”400″ height=”225″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/31708405″>6C Ice Scream 3</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/yisacademics”>YIS Academics</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> These [...]

Significant Concept: Responding to an external stimulus, one needs to have immediate action where there is a suspension of thought. Guiding Question: How can I stop hesitating and re-act without thinking? Summative Task: Improv Theatre Sport Students will engage in summative Improv Theatre Sport Event. 3 theater sport games will be chosen from 6 theater [...]