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ADA201 with Ms. GarrattA.N. Myer Secondary School

Journal #1 Technology

What are some ways we can use

technological tools such as sound

and lighting to heighten the impact

of our work in theatre?

Journal #2 Playing a character

How could playing a character who is quite different from yourself influence your perspective on the issue you are studying in the play?

Journal #3 Group Collaboration

What role did you play when planning your group performance? How can you improve your contributions for the next time?

Journal #4 Stage Business

How can you position yourself on the stage so that your character’s silent stage business can be clearly seen by the audience?

Journal #5 Blocking/Staging

How were staging and blocking used to help communicate information about the characters?

Journal #6 Group Work

What skills or strategies did you use to negotiate in your group? How did the strategies help you solve problems during the rehearsal process?

Journal #7 Rituals

What kinds of personal, social and or religious rituals or ceremonies have been depicted in dramas you have viewed or presented? How do they resemble or differ from rituals or ceremonies that are part of your culture?

Journal #8 Teamwork

When do you have to work as a team member in other areas of your life? What skills do you need tobe part of a team?

Journal #9 Comedy

Why might we include comic characters and scenes in a serious play?

Journal #10 Storytelling - an art form.

What do we mean when we refer to the protagonist in a drama? What is the difference between the climax and the resolution of a play?

Journal #11 Lighting

Why is it important to map out the lighting cues for a performance? How will you make this simple and straightforward for your lighting operator?

Journal #12 Issues based theatre

How does drama help us to communicate with each other, or spread awareness of an issue?

Journal #13 Safety

What can we do to ensure that we are working safely in a theatre space? Remember to include comments about personal safety and emotional safety.

Journal #14 3-2-1

Explain the concept of 3-2-1. Why do we need to understand this concept in the Drama classroom and beyond?

Journal #15 - Fox and Rabbit

Explain how the game Fox and Rabbit is about inclusion and exclusion? Why is this an important topic to discuss in Drama?

Journal #16 Game as Metaphor

What games have we played? What skills are you developing when playing those games? Why do we play games in the Drama classroom? What is meant by the term “Game as Metaphor”?

Journal #17 Relaxation techniques

List some relaxation techniques that Ms. Garratt has taught you/used in class this semester. Why did we learn/use them? How will they help you in Theatre and in life?

Journal #18 Being an Audience

What are the characteristics of a good audience member? What are Ms. Garratt’s rules about being an audience? Why does a theatre manager ask the audience to turn off their cellphones during a performance?

Journal #19 Vocal Warm ups

List some vocal warm ups that Ms. Garratt taught you/used in class? How did they help you on stage?

Journal #20 Character development

What clues can you use from a piece of text/play/song/poem/photo/ etc. to help you understand who your character is and what type of person they might be?

Journal #21 Body Language

How important is body language and physicalization in Commedia Del’Arte, Tableau, Mime etc?

Journal #22 Improv

What are the most important rules about Improv? Why?

Journal #23 Cross Curricular ConnectionsTell me about a time when the learning we were doing in this class connected to something you were learning in another class.

Journal #24 Tableau

What are the qualities of a good Tableaux play? In your opinion, how well did yours go? What could you have done to improve your own performance?

Journal #25 Theatre History

How has theatre grown/evolved throughout our history? What changes have taken place? What have we kept from our past? How has our past influenced theatre today?

Journal# 26 Observations

What personal observations can you make about yourself/others/your learning/theatre/connections to other aspects of life?

The End… there is no more…;o)

Thank you!

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