Civics - Art of Civil Disobedience Monday 4th Period - Class canceled.

[biotic_psychotic]

A handwaved alert goes out to the students and there's a note posted on the classroom door in English and Aurebesh. There's a small basket with some DVDs.

Class is canceled for today. If you want extra credit, watch this movie and write up a short, single paragraph summary of what the main character did wrong. Note: This is a fictional movie not a documentary.

[OOC: Power outage just ate my class write-up and I don't have the spoons to redo.]

Acting 101; Monday, First Period [02/11].

[not_a_bird]

Sweet Dee had actually gotten an idea for this class that she actually thought was a pretty good one, but, with spring break next week, it didn't make a whole lot of sense to get into it just yet. Clearly, it was an End Game kind of project, something to throw at the kids to lead up to the end of the semester which was still, in her mind, going surprisingly well. She hadn't even gotten close to being fired yet, which was a leg-up on the last time around. But, then again, she hadn't been dragging the kids to a bar.

Yet.

That was for after the break. For today...

"Sooooo," Sweet Dee started, "we haven't been spending as much time with acting lately as," they should, "I would like, so today we're going to fix that a little bit and do an exercise that'll hopefully help tap into some real acting chops. Now, a good actor should be able to portray a variety of emotions, even with a single line, alright? For example, a question as simple as 'What are you doing here?' can be delivered in so many different ways to convey a different set of emotions or reactions from your audience. Here, I'll show you."

You know it was going to be really great when Sweet Dee took a second to clear her throat and collect her thoughts. And then she launched into about five minutes of repeating the 'What are you doing here?' line with a variety of different energy and emphasis, not of it particularly good or convincing, almost all of them being on the extreme side of what someone who was just learning what emotions were might present as happy, surprised, sad, angry, morose, etc, etc, etc.

"You see? One line, so many different emotions! And that's what we'll work on today. So, when you're ready, I'll give you a line and we'll cycle through different emotions for you to try and see how to improve or keep doing what you're doing that makes it work. Who wants to go first?"

Make It Fashion- Tuesday- 1st period

[gobrookeyourself]

"Morning," Brooke greeted the class. Today they had large sketchbooks at their desks, and tablets. "We're going to do something a little different today and talk about design. Fashion Week is going on right now, where designers show off their for upcoming seasons, and celebrities can shop around for the things you might see them wear at a red carpet event later. And it's one thing to follow a pattern, but you can also have the freedom to make what you design, and have it be totally unique.

"On the tablets in front of you are looks from Fashion Week, both runway and street style. It's mostly women's wear, but you'll find men's looks, too. Check it out, see what you like, and then maybe sketch out something you'd like to try making someday. You don't have to be good at art, I'm not going to make you make this next week or anything. But try sketching out a pattern or a piece of clothing, see what you come up with."