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.