Thursday 3/22

In class we reviewed the long and short diphthongs then discussed learning a dialect. After that we jumped into RP land (upper class British dialect). We review the IPA changes and worked on sentences in partners. We will be speaking this dialect in class until we move onto NYC in April. At the end of class students partnered up and signed up for a date to perform a scene in this dialect. (Please choose one of the four in the back of the British Dialect packet).

For Tuesday 4/3:

1. Study diphthongs-quiz on 4/3
2. Practice RP dialect
3. Read/review the play: The Importance of Being Ernest
4. Watch movies/tv shows with RP (look in RP packet) and practice speaking every day!
5. Begin to do IPA changes above the RP scene you will be performing

Have a wonderful, restful break!!!

Tuesday March 20th

Happy Spring everyone. In honor of it we took a test....yeah! After reviewing the vowels, students took the IPA vowel quiz and voted to do the diphthong quiz after Spring Break. After reviewing the diphthongs, we did IPA transcription for a poem. We are moving into our first dialect-British. We will now be speaking only in this dialect during class.

For Thursday: 

1. Review the British(RP) packet

2. Read The Dialect handout

3. Study the diphthongs

4. Complete the IPA transcription on the battle cry for extra credit (due Tuesday after break)

Thursday March 15th

We reviewed all the vowels with students holding up the vowels. Nice work everyone. Hopefully it helped seeing the symbol while saying it together. Then we jumped into the long diphthongs, drew pictures and reviewed with classmate. Finally we reviewed the short/r diphthongs. These are tough guys, only way to really get them is to study, write flashcards and quiz yourself as much as possible.


For Tuesday: 

1. Study for vowel quiz

2. Read the Dialect handout

3. Review the diphthongs

4. Bring in a flash drive on Tuesday and give it to me, so I can give you the dialect audio files by Thursday.

Tuesday March 13th

In class we reviewed the front and mid vowels then looked at the back vowels. After reviewing all the vowels as a class we played "The IPA Game Show" and you all won 1 extra credit point. Nice work everyone! Great team names too. :-) We then had our final three students perform their poems. Yeah!

For Thursday: 

1. Review the long diphthongs and all the vowels

2. The IPA vowel quiz will be on Tuesday the 20th.

3. Bring me a flash drive so I can give you the dialect recordings.

Thursday March 8th

Today was our introduction to the IPA. We began with the front vowels then moved to the mid vowels. We then drew the symbols of each vowels on scratch paper and drew pictures and words that best represented the sound. The only way to really get this stuff down is by practice, so review as much as possible.

For Tuesday: 

1. Review front and mid vowels and complete pictures

2. Review back vowels

We will play an IPA vowel game in teams for extra credit, so come prepared on Tuesday. Have a lovely weekend!

Tuesday March 6th

We did a full body and voice warm up in class then three people worked on their poems. We are headed into IPA land for the next three weeks, so please bring your packets with you to class everyday.

You should have finished Freeing the Natural Voice and turned in your four response sheets, but if you have done done this you are welcome to do it at any time throughout the semester. I will always accept late work for half credit.

For Thursday: 

1. Read about front and mid vowels in the IPA packet

2. Roger, Megan and Josh will work on their poems in class

Tuesday 3/13 will be the final poem day-Aalia, Mo and Doug will perform. Mike, when you are healed up we will schedule yours.

Thursday March 1st

In class we worked on the full resonating latter-giving sound and movement as we climbed up our bodies. This is a great way to end a full warm up, imagining sound coming from all parts of your body.
I also handing out the "great IPA packet". Please begin to read this through, we will jump in next Thursday.

For Tuesday: 

1. Finish reading Freeing
Here are the people bringing in comments for an extra credit point: Steve, Roger, Sheli, Jason, Mike and Clarissa. Thanks guys!

2. Do RR#4 and turn in Tuesday

3. Read the first part of the IPA packet