Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Objective: Finish Name Cards & Start Interview Assignment
Product: How do you feel about the interview character you've come up with?

Bell Work: Who is one of your favorite celebrities? Explain why.

Class Activities
For the first ten to fifteen minutes of class, students will complete their name cards that they started to make the day before. Once the students finish, they will turn their card into Mr. Eastland.

One of the last getting to know you activities that we will be doing in class is the Character Interview. Mr. Eastland will divide the class into groups of two. If there is an odd numbered class, there will be one group of three. Each student will choose a celebrity, accent, personality, or fictional character to portray for this assignment. They can be anyone they want to be as long as they are not themselves.

Each student will interview their partner, but not in the same way that we did at the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year, we were getting to know someone through their likes, dislikes, and other facts. This should be more like a television interview, where the questions lead to more story like answers.

The interviewer is going to portray the character that the student has decided on. The interviewee is the student being himself/herself. The interviewer will need to come up with a opening and closing to their interview. For example:
"Good evening, everyone! Thank you for watching the Late Night with Mr. Eastland! We are here tonight with Christopher Eastland. Everybody give him a round of applause!"
and
"That's all the time we have for tonight, but thank you folks for coming out. Christopher is was great meeting, and I hope the best for your future."

Besides these two things being planned out, the questions need to be planned out before the interview as well. Remember, that the questions need to lead to long, story answers not short answers. The opening, closing, and questions need to be written out by the interviewer, but the responses do not need to be written out.

Students will work the rest of the day on this project. Once they have everything figured out, they will rehearse in class. They will have part of tomorrow to rehearse, before they start performing.

Remember! The key to passing this class is to be Positive and Willing to Try. Above all, please have FUN with this assignment! I look forward to seeing all of the performances on Thursday and Friday!

Important!
The Character Interview is a TEST GRADE! Be ready to go in the order Mr. Eastland placed you in during class.