The Students at Work

Congrats!

Congratulations GCS MS Students!

You should all be very proud of your work, I am!!!

~Ms. Hall

Tuesday's Rehearsal

Hey All,

There WILL be rehearsal on Tuesday the 29th from 3-5pm.

~M

Finale Scene Dialogue

FINALE

ALL

Students come DS and form a line.  (8th graders are in the middle of this line.)

CHLOE

Bullying is the intentional - physical, emotional, verbal or virtual - abuse...

WILL

("cutting Chloe off") Abuse meaning any form of torture, pain, harassment, hurt etc., 

TAYLOR

That is inflicted upon a person by another person, or a group of people...

CHARLOTTE

(picking up right on the end of Taylor's line) In order to make themselves feel superior.  

ELISE

Many bullies take pleasure from putting others down. 

LIAM

Often the “cause” of being bullied is a person’s:

-Religion or Beliefs

HANNAH

-Race

DAN

-Sexual Orientation

LIZ

-“Looks,” you know like how you (someone) dress(es)...

KENNEDY

-As well as Mental and Physical Disabilities.

MORGAN

Bullying has no regard for age, race or gender. 

VICTORIA

It can occur at school, 

RYAN

at home, on the bus,

KAITLIN 

at the mall, in the work place etc...

CHARLOTTE

Today we would like to show you that we believe bullying is wrong, in any form - physical, verbal or virtual.  

LIZ

We want to encourage everyone - young and old - to step in and stop it when you see it happening.

DAN

Together we are here to say that the students of Greenville Central School are NOT going to simply stand around.

LIAM

When you leave this auditorium, whether you are walking the halls, hanging at the mall, relaxing with your friends, working or whatever ... know that you can do something to stop situations where bullying is occurring.  

KENNEDY

Students can always go to Ms. Fisher, Mrs. Klob or Mr. Reeve to address any bullying they see or experience.

HANNAH

Please, be the change you wish to see in this world.

ALL

Word.  Pause.  Any questions?

Time for questions.  All participants should sit on the edge of the stage for the Q&A.

Improv Scene Dialogue

SCENE 4 - ON IMPROV

Bus scene is setting up during the improv dialogue.

LIAM 

(think teacher character for this, and you can have this written out if need be...)

Improv is a form of theatre where the actors make up the “script” in the moment.  Sometimes, like today’s performance, once these initial ideas are created, they are rehearsed over a period of time to make sure the beginning, middle and end - as every story must have these parts - is clear.  Other times the actors are told, by their audience, what they are to act out and the improvise (or make up) the scene on the spot.  Everything seen here today has been created by US.

For example....(improvise and instruct your fellow ghetto actors to get into ghetto character and then begin the dialogue below)

LIAM

What up ya’ll let’s talk improv ghetto style.

KAITLIN

Word dawg.  But I heard improv is mad hard yo.

KENNEDY

Pshhhh, it’s easy peasy.

LIAM

Improv is just taking a situation and making it up as you go.

RYAN

There’s a few rules ya gotta follow.  First one: don’t think, just do.

MORGAN

I’m good at not thinking gurl.

LIZ

Yo second rule of improv is to say: 

GROUP

Yes and ... (5 count pause Liam - remind them you're all ghetto right now) what!

DAN

That means you always go with the flow yo.

VICTORIA

Third rule of improv is to justify your actions.

DAN

That means your words and actions gotta live in harmony dog.

HANNAH

Fourth rule of improv says: be clear to your audience and your partners.

DAN

That means it gotta make sense ya’ll.

GROUP

Word.

MORGAN

The most important is to have fun ya’ll.

DAN

Yeah, but it’s time to get back to our main mission gang.

Rehearsal NEXT Week

Hello everyone,

It has been brought to my attention that the High School musical auditions are taking place on the stage next Wednesday, therefore we will arrange a different after school rehearsal date.  Mrs. Raskopf is going to check the school calendar to make sure we schedule a free afternoon.

Hope to have the date solidified by tomorrow.

Thanks.
~M

Rehearsal on Saturday the 26th

Hi All,

We will have a rehearsal this Saturday the 26th from 9am-12noon.
Students: we will run and put final polishing touches on the 3 scenes as well as run and polish the 2 group scenes.

Tomorrow night I will add the "improv" instructional dialogue and the "ending" dialogue ... please keep checking.

ALSO: our final "rehearsal" will be one day the following week, probably on Wednesday but it is not yet determined, from 3-5pm.  This rehearsal is VERY IMPORTANT as it will be our ONLY chance to run the show with EVERYONE!

PLEASE DO NOT BE ABSENT FROM THIS REHEARSAL.

NPR was talking about cyber bullying,

I was listening to NPR on my way home from work today and it turned out that the program was discussing cyber bullying.  One statement made was this (roughly):

"Kids today are no meaner than kids in the 1600's, the difference is it was not made so public in the 1600's.  Today, with everything on the internet, EVERYONE can see it."

Rehearsal / Performance Dates

Here are the remaining workshop dates:

Saturday January 12th 9am-1pm - We will be providing a PIZZA lunch.
Wednesday January 16th 3-5pm
Saturday January 19th 9am-1pm
Saturday January 26th 9am-1pm - This is a "hold" date, to be used if deemed necessary on the 19th.

PERFORMANCE DATE:
February 1st, 2013
Students will have an in-school performance for the Middle School.

We will then have a "Dinner Cast Party" at 5:30pm

FOLLOWED BY THE Parent Performance at 7pm on Friday February 1st!

*Some of the parents are coordinating a flyer for the performance, as well as the food for the Dinner Cast Party - which they are requesting $5.00 per student in order to fund the food.

Statistics "Scene"

*This is not necessarily the order in which you will deliver your statistics...I will, however, have determined what the order is, and will let you know on Saturday.

SCENE

Spotlight Statistics

LIZ 

As many as 160,000 students stay home from school on any given day because they are afraid of being bullied.

LIAM

56% of students have personally felt some sort of bullying at school.

HANNAH

The most common reason cited for being harassed is a student’s appearance or body size.

WILL

One in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4% of the time.

CHLOE

One out of 10 students drop out of school because they are bullied.

MORGAN

Physical bullying peaks in middle school and declines in high school.  Verbal abuse rates remain constant from elementary to high school

TAYLOR

57% of students who experience harassment in school never report the incident to the school.

CHARLOTTE

Schools with easily understood rules of conduct, smaller class sizes and fair discipline practices report less violence than those without such features.

DANIEL

Playground statistics state that every 7 minutes a child is bullied.

RYAN

One out of 5 kids admits to being a bully, or doing some “bullying.”

KENNEDY

19% of students admit to saying something hurtful to others online.

VICTORIA

Over 14% of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7% have attempted it.

KAITLIN

The average cyber bully starts at age 9.

CAILA

Bullying is the most common form of violence.

ELISE

43% of students fear harassment in the bathroom at school.

Holiday...Busy...Next Rehearsal Info

Happy New Year Everyone!

First of all, I hope that everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday break!

Secondly, I'm sorry that I haven't put anything up on here ... turns out that with a full time job, the holiday "busy" things, and family visiting that I just didn't get to writing out the "scripts" - until this week (and I just plain forgot to post the statistics - which I will put up in just a bit).

I will work on the "scripts" from our last workshop for use this Saturday.  And I think that this Saturday will be our only rehearsal/workshop this week.  Therefore I would like to do 9am-1pm on Saturday the 5th.

The following week we will have both an after school workshop and the Saturday one.

See you all in a few days!

~Ms. Hall