Weeks 8 and 9: Nearing the Finish!

I apologize for the lateness of these blog posts. Graduation, moving out, and final projects have really cramped my blogging time. The last two weeks, we have been working on scenes. During Week 8, we read over some scripts that my cooperating teacher gave me for C&I300. My teacher says her students tend to really enjoy these scripts because they are adaptations of fairy tales. Additionally, they are short (about 4 pages) and tend to have a lot of different parts as to have the most participation. We looked at "The Three Little Elephants" (based on "The Three Little Pigs") and "The Very Ugly Woodpecker" (based on "The Ugly Duckling".) Based on students wishes, we decided to do "The Very Ugly Woodpecker."
This week, we had much more attendees which was both a good thing and a bad thing. We had more people, and hence more actors, but some of the new arrivals hadn't read "The Very Ugly Woodpecker" and instead wanted to do another play. We explained to them that the choice had already been made the week before, and they didn't seem to put off by the play upon rereading it. Then, we decided parts by simply asking the students for first choices. It was surprisingly easy to deal out the parts and the students were mostly cooperative. I am filling in some small parts in the play, while Sarah will play the role of audience next week for our "performance." We rehearsed some blocking, with the students having the majority of the input. Next week is our last week of Flagship, so next week will be my last post! Until then!