Tuesday May 15th and Thursday May 17th

This week we finished up the Southern Dialect. Sounded pretty good everyone.

Our final will be on Tuesday, May 22nd from 11:50-1:50 in the theater. Please plan on staying the whole time.

For the final you need to choose the dialect you felt best at and memorize your lines from any of the scenes or monologues we did in class. Please don't bring in outside pieces, I've seen that it is best to work on something you have heard so you can get the correct sounds changes. (I'm going to be grading you on your sounds and volume, not your acting ability). After everyone performs their dialect pieces, there will be a short written final followed by a closing activity and discussion.

If you have extra credit or late work, it is all due on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend and see ya one last time on Tuesday!

Tuesday May 8th and Thursday May 10th

This week we finished the IPA for the southern scenes and began performing. We have one week left then our final will be on Tuesday May 22nd. Make sure you get the extra credit assignment and the final review (both on my website if you need a copy).

For Tuesday:
1. Type out your scene and do IPA changes

2. Work on memorizing the monologue or scene you will be doing for the performance part of the final

3. Practice your southern dialects

Thursday May 3

Today we jumped into the Southern Dialect y'all. Please listen to your cds, watch movies and work on this sound. Please finish the IPA on the 2 man scene and begin to do it on the scene that you will perform.

Have a lovely weekend.

Tuesday May 1st

Happy May Day!

Today was our final NYC day. Many of the performers sounded southern today. There is more mouth involvement, more pressure and forward placement in NYC, southern is lazy mouth....and speaking of Southern, we will jump in ya'all on Thursday.

Listen to your southern cds in preparation!

Thursday April 26th

We had so much fun today. Thanks everyone! Some great NYC dialects and scene work.

Keep working on this dialect and we'll see the final performances on Tuesday. Thursday we jump into Southern.

Thursday April 19th

We warmed up our NYC dialects with some games then did the IPA changes on the 2 man scene. I also handed out an extra credit written assignment due May 3rd.

We will begin performing these NYC scenes next week. Remember you must type up your lines from the scene and mark the IPA changes above the words.

For Tuesday: 

1. Practice your NYC dialect

2. Finish IPA on your scene if we didn't get to it

Enjoy this amazing weather!

Tuesday April 17th

Today we began the NYC dialect. We reviewed the packet and then began to speak in this dialect. We did the IPA changes on one of the scenes. You need to choose one of the three scene and rehearse with a new partner for your performance. Make sure you sign up for a performance date on Thursday if you don't have one yet.

For Thursday:

1. Do the IPA changes on the other two scenes

2. Practice this dialect