KRISTA D. PRICE

​​​Day 1: Abandoning "bad" ideas

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1.) Watched Ira Glass on Storytelling - part II (0:00-3:08) and discussed why letting some ideas "die" can sometimes allow better ideas to "live". 

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2.) Watched, analyzed, & discussed the story structure of 2 Goodbye Scene performances by former Acting students.

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3.) Reviewed 3 different music clips played by Ms. Price and added to ideas while listening to each music clip again.  (How can you make your idea even stronger?  Any new ideas?).  Completed in Google Classroom PROCESS JOURNAL

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4.) Reviewed instructions for our final acting scene (for IB Summative "Thinking Creatively")

• With a partner (of your choice), create a GOODBYE SCENE to music (choose music clip #1, #2, or #3)

  • Be SPECIFIC in your CHOICES (character, setting, why's, etc.)

  • Your STORY should have a beginning, conflict, sequence of actions, and resolution (NOT the same action over and over).  

  • No talking (or mouthing words).  Work to SHOW more than you tell.  

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5.) Collaborated with partner to develop a concept, artistic intention, and strong story for a "Goodbye Scene" to music. 

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6.) Completed Reflection #4 in Google Classroom (first 3 questions).

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​​​Day 3: Performance / Role of "Failure" in Creative work

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1.) Rehearsed then performed Goodbye Scenes for a final Summative grade  for IB Criterion C - "Creating/Performing" (and received class feedback.)  If absent, be prepared to perform the day you return.

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2.) Completed/Submitted Reflection #4 in Google Classroom (last 2 questions). 

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3.)   Journaled in response to the following questions: 

(in Google Classroom PROCESS JOURNAL; Title: Thinking creatively")

• What have you learned about thinking creatively as a result of creating original scenes this unit?

 

2.)  Watched Ira Glass on Storytelling - part III (0:00-1:54) and discussed how creative thinking CAN be developed by constantly creating (a large volume of work) and how failure is a part of the creative PROCESS..  (Watch HERE)  (if absent, be sure to watch)

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3.)  Discussed:

• What have you been taught about "failure" in your life?  (through adults' actions, not words)

• How can learning to think creatively (and producing creative work) help you in YOUR chosen career/life path? 

• Discussed how creativity CAN be developed (re-visited) by doing, doing, doing and that "failure" is a necessary part of the creative process.

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Day 4: Story / Read a Play (Exposition)

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​1.) Performed final scene (if you haven't already).

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2.) Discussed:  If you switched from performing an ORIGINAL CONCEPT/IDEA to performing a SCRIPT, what would be the differences? 

• Discussed what a script LOOKS like and what it includes (character's name and what he/she says).  Discussed how scripts aren't meant to be read...they're meant to be SEEN.

• Discussed ways to better use your imagination while reading a script.

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3.) Learned about playwright Neil Simon and his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Lost in Yonkers. 

• If absent, just know that Neil Simon is a well-known 20th century playwright who wrote many plays and screenplays.  Many of his plays were influenced by where he grew up (New York) and when he grew up (during/after the Great Depression). 

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4.) Discussed  the "world of the play" that we will be reading in class (Yonkers, New York, 1942) and the ways the play's characters may be influenced by that "world".

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5.) Read Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon.  If absent you MUST read what we read together in class! (see below) 

Click the links below to read the Act I, Scene 1...

• Act I, Scene1, pgs 3-21 Exposition = the beginning of the play where we learn about the characters and their relationships to eachother

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