Dec 17, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Time to prep
• The show must go on! Let's watch some performances
• Reminder of rules around watching these
• Returning your comic strips!
• Generally, if something seemed off, it didn't get an EXT
• Some were hard to understand - if I wrote that, feel free to challenge, and walk me through it
• Returning your performance marks!
• Brainstorming the Academically Rigorous Analysis of a Holiday Film

Dec 16, 2025

  Hello! Welcome to the silliest week of the year!

• Checking in
• Last chance for performances! Make sure you're ready for tomorrow
• Reminder of rubric
• For those who are making videos: send them to me WELL BEFORE the actual lesson.
• The Drama teachers have chimed in: we cannot access their props

Dec 15, 2025

 Hello! Welcome to the silliest week of the year!

• Checking in
• A note on the news
• Last chance for performances! Make sure you're ready for tomorrow Wednesday
• Reminder of rubric
• For those who are making videos: send them to me WELL BEFORE the actual lesson.
• The Drama teachers have chimed in: we cannot access their props

Dec 12, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Time to practice your performance:
• Today, your goal is to set yourself up for success by making sure you're ready for a dry run on Monday
• Assume something will prevent you from practicing on Monday - practice as if you're about to perform
• For the PM
• Stay away from the Foods lab
• You'll have to stay in the class unless I give permission
• The Drama teachers have chimed in: we cannot access their props

Dec 11, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to:

• Checking in
• List of missing work
• Oh look, I've put up all the remaining assignments left for the course. Aren't you such lucky ducks?
• Students finishing the quiz from yesterday
• Time to work on performance
• Review the rubric
• A heads up: this is often the day I can learn who's going to get a good mark, because of the effort put in
• Your goal today is to rehearse, and to try to establish the emotions of the lines and the movement of the characters
• Tomorrow your goal is to finesse it
• Monday your goal is to get it perfect
• Tuesday you perform

Dec 10, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Volunteer check in
• Time to gather your notes
• In-Class paragraph
• When you're done, feel free to work on whatever you'd like to work on - especially the performance
• The next three lessons are entirely to prepare for the performance

Dec 9, 2025

 Hello! Sorry I couldn't be there today. You have two tasks:

• Prepare for your in-class paragraph tomorrow by:
• Writing a practice paragraph (see the board)
• Preparing your one page of notes. 
• Things to include
• Notes on each major character
• Don Pedro
• Benedick
• Claudio
• Beatrice
• Leonato
• Don John
• Important quotes from each character
• Structure of a paragraph
• Mr. McLean's Writing Tips
• Teacher feedback from essay
• Prepare for the performance next week, by rehearsing and planning outfits and setting