Homework Feb 9th

I expect a comment from each of you over the course of this week - you have until Friday Feb 9th to post your answer. If you can't post for some reason, email it to me and I will put it on the blog.

You are currently working on monologues. Explain why you think monologues might be useful if used within a longer play featuring more characters. You might also like to talk about your own monologue and how your research is going for it.

Alan Bennet


http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n25/alan_bennet_monologues This is a link to a review of two of Alan Bennet's famous monologues from his series called Talking Heads. You might find it interesting to read.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/bennettalan/bennettalan.htm Here is an article about Bennet and his life and works.

Kmans Stuff

Today we were given our project outline for our monoluoge. I think that this will be interesting. I get to stand and talk for about three minutes so that should be fun. I read some of the monouloges and i think that they are disturbing. Death, violence , and many other things that make the world such a happy place. I am thinking of doing something with droughts for global warming. That could be interesting with thirst and other aspects like crops that I could include. That is my basic plan on what i want to do with my monolouge and hopefully this will work out well.

~ flor ~

In drama we have started focusing on global issuse. The M3-B class was split into two main groups (discrimination and Global Warming). I was intersested in discrimination so i was put into the discrimination group. So far we have been working on different performances based on our groups. During each one of our performances we have been learning a new form of drama such as monologing, freeze-frames and documeteries. These performances have been hard yet a learning expieriance. They have been difficult because we have only about one lesson to plan, create and perform each one. I have learned a lot about the different types of discrimination and how they have affected the world. I have also been learning a lot about different types of drama. My acting skills have also been imporoving which i am very happy about since i'm not exactly the worlds greatest actress. I am enjoying this unit a lot. I am not only learning about drama but also increasing my knowledge on the world.

M3A Drama

Drama Lessons

Eclipse

I am looking at children affected by WMD there are many different ways for example a bomb could kill a child and a nuke could mutate one a bomb could kill a child's family and make him an orphane

BRYY

This week my group re-worked our play on children in the military. Now, we have a better play with more of a focus. People bribe kids with peer pressure and black mail to get them to join the army. it is a terrible thing but unfortunelty it is happening all over the world. In our play we have a girl getting revenge on the guy who killed her parents and the man who is recruiting her gives her a gun and she goes and kills him. After she has killed, she has to be apart of the army. we have to try and stop this horrible thing from happening. it is distroying people and ripping families apart. No kids should be in the military forces.

BRYY

this past week i looked at child abuse. i found lots of statistics on child abuse, and more and more children are getting abused. Many parents dont know that they are are abusing there children though because the biggest problem is neglect and the parents dont pay attention to their kids. Most parents dont mean to neglect them, because they might be young parents or they might have been abused themselves. Child abuse is a terrible thing and we have to do everything we can to sop child abuse from happening. This week my group made a play on children drafted into the military. In our play we had two generals come and steal three littlw boys from their family. we had a good idea for the play because things like that, unfortunetly happen, but we did not have enough information on the topic. this week we are researching the topic more and then we are revising the production. I like this task a lot because its fun but it lets us learn about world issues.

I am doing the attack on 9/11 and im working with cartman. I have looked at his web pages and I have an extreme point, Get ready.....

If there was a 9/11 conspiracy, and what the college students with no girlfriends had come up with is true, and the president killed hundreds just for a good reason to go to war in Iraq, then 5 or 6 more college kids is no biggie. The government would have taken them, killed them and destroyed their followers as well as all of the articles that stated these conspiracies. THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY, IT WAS REALLY AN ATTACK BY SUICIDAL PEOPLE THAT (apparrently) REALLY HATED THE USA.

All hail NOT George Bush!!!!
(this does not mean i hate texas, i love it.)

Curly Fri

We were talking about child abuse. We had to et into groups and make sculptures showing innocence and abuse. That was one of the hardest things that I have ever had to do in my fourteen years of living! It is so hard for me to keep a staright face especially when people are staring at me and talking about the position I'm in! I'm SO proud of myself for being able to keep it together (most of the time)! We then had to make a short performance (not a skit) showing child labor. The other group had to show fighting children. Sophia, Samir, Ashni, Megan, Nadira and I made a performance about children working in a Nike sweatshop sewing shirts. Megan, Nad and I were the workers. Nadira and I were sisters and she was dying of an illness. It showed how people that own places like that don't care about anyone but themselves and their families even if someone is in great need of help. We were able to perform it pretty well, but Nadira and I sort of lost it in the end and burts out laughing! OOPS!

Cartman

I got a bunch of info on my topic of Global Isuues. It's basically George Bush or 9/11. I am also working on this with Dr. Zoidberg the lobster boy and here are a few websites with the information.
http://www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/9/11
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/Investigation.asp
http://www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/9/11_conspiracy
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons - article about 9/11 conspiracy (swearing)
http://www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=1016 - Hip Hop response to 9/11

1. I don't think our group had any difficulties with the performance except for maybe getting Spencer to play his part.
2. Our first part of the play was the best so i guess i would keep that. (It was about child labour).

we were discussing about child abuse. this lesson we were divided into two groups. my group had to make a play about military. in our play three boys were taken from their house to go and join the army. there were two generals and the boy's mother. these three boys had to learn using guns and they were taken for the fight. but while going, the truck exploded and one of their brother was dead. and the two other while running to him got shot. and thats how it ended.

What kind of a world is this?!

In drama we talked about global issues and began researching ones that we were interested in. I began researching child labor and I found a lot! As a class we decided to focus on a few main global issues. These consisted of poverty, women's rights, 911, child labor, WMD and HIV/AIDS. I am most interested in child labor and women's rights. Both of them upset me because I am a girl and a kid. We deserve to be in school, not sewing nike shoes to be able to pay for one meal for our family. Everyone, like us, takes it for granted and as we're using our child labor made product, we don't even think about it! What kind of a world is this?! It makes me really mad when guys think that just because they are bigger and stronger (most of the time) that they rule the world. It's NOT true! Women are just as smart and without women, males wouldn't even exist! We don't deserve to be pushed around by other people. Sadly, in some places, women are. Since I obviously have an interest in both of these, I will be doing most of my research on them.
http://hrw.org/children/labor.htm
http://hrw.org/women/

I love carrots

Last lesson we were looking for information about Global Issues. I focused on Racism which i think is a global issue because many people in the world have fights about this. What is Racism, "Racism means attitudes, practices and other factors that disadvantage people
because of their race, color or ethnicity. Racism can be directed against any
race, color or ethnicity." There are less and less racist people in the world today but it is still a Global Issue. The class has been divided into two different groups and i am now in the group focusing on racism.

Kmans Stuff

In response to Mrs. Tickles question I think That Mr.Swifts ideas were interesting. His idea may have worked but may have had a negative affect on the populace. The rich may of thought that this was a good idea but the poor like their children.

Sh! er !n-15/1/07.

Last time I spent the whole lesson researching on different topics. The topics I reasearched were: racism, different rape articles and discrimination of religions around the world. Some websites I visited were:
http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/
http://www.religioustolerance.org/

About Children

Last lesson I searched about Global Issues. Like Children and education for the children.

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/labour/index.htm
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/soldiers/index.htm
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/children/index.htm

I got the information in these sources

Lmans Junk

today Kman ani i went around on the internet to look all around at Global Warming, Womens Rights, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Rascism and i found Global Warming the most ineresting so Kman and i decided to choose this topic to write and reaserch about.

Kmans Stuff

I response to the comment on my origanal post I think that all of the worlds problems could be solved by decreasing the poulation. Hunger , depletion of energy , the environment . All these problems could be solved. Less people for the same amount of food. Less people for the same energy. And less energy emissions and requirement for resources. Poverty would also stop if people didnt have kids that they couldnt support. I think that many of the worlds issues could be stopped if people thought a little more about these problems(and yes Mrs. Tickle I know the reasons against it but i still think that it could work.)

For this lesson I reashearched what i could about global warming and had some i deas for the drama plays

• Polar Bears on the Ice Bergs complaining
• People using aersol and big diesel cars while others are energy safe
• A christmas carol style story but with global warming
• Bush in the white house with a bunch of penguins(half joking)

Overall i think that we should include some humor with the seriousness.

A Modest Proposal

”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”

Jonathan Swift (1729)

Check out this link for an interesting proposal not dissimilar to Kman's theories on over-population and eating pigeons. What do you think was the reaction of the audience listening to Swift's speech? What is your response?

An interesting idea..

Racism group - one of you found the following during the course of your research:

This new initiative is aimed at allowing people to interact with someone who is different from them, someone whom they may otherwise avoid or make unfounded assumptions about. By creating easy-access to different people, all library members will have the opportunity to discover their similarities and ask questions they may never have wanted to pose to a stranger on the street. This includes people with different religious views, lifestyle choices, sexual orientations, etc.
Good idea, right? Maybe a bit strange or unconventional, but nonetheless, a grand idea.

Posted on August 23, 2005 11:36 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

What are your thoughts on this novel idea? Could it form the basis of an idea for some drama? please post a comment below.

Edward

we have brain stormed some ideas about Global Issues and they are Womens Rights, Poverty, WMD, 911, and Child laber.

Homework Week Beginning Monday 15th January

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Make sure you have accepted my invitation to join this blog.

2. Have you created a word document with some pictures, sentences, statistics etc. from the web that interest you? Remember that all sources should be acknowledged. Here is a good example.

3. Open a new post (see the link at the top of the blog screen) and title it with your display name. In this post, introduce the work you have done so far. State your chosen topic of interest and some information you have found out. Answer the following questions:
What were some of the difficulties and shortcomings of the small drama pieces you already rehearsed and performed?
What ideas from those pieces might you save for future use? (this might be content or structure)
State some of your thoughts on the task ahead.

4. Your original post becomes your DW. Each time I ask you to write, post it as a comment on your main post.

Don't forget that you are encouraged to read the posts of others, and to comment on them. remember that this blog is not only your assessed work, but also a public forum. Your comments should be suitably appropriate.

my group and I. made out of Lman and Kman are researching on global warming and how it affects the environment.

P.S. Oh my god they killed Kenny!!!

Kman's Stuff

For this Lesson I reasearched all areas of "Global Issues". I looked at global warming,hunger,womens rights, weapons of mass destruction , rascism , and Globalisation. Overall I was the most interested in global warming because it affects most global issues eg: Hunger, deforestation , etc . I reasearched this and am with Lman , Kenny , and some other people.

Welcome to your blog!

Welcome, M3, to your Drama blog. On this site you will post your Developmental Workbook entries each week. Sometimes I will pose a question for you to answer; other times I will simply ask you to record your progress and thoughts. Don't wait for me to invite you to write - you can add an entry any time you like. Post ideas, questions, reminders to your group, links to websites and anything else that is relevant. Remember that if I ask you to post an entry, it is homework and you must do it! Have fun using technology to enhance your creativity....