Thursday April 12th

We had our final RP day. Five groups performed their scenes. Nice work all.

At the end of class I handed out the NYC packet. Please read this over before class on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend.

Best,
Laura

Tuesday April 10th

Today in class we warmed up our RP then six group performed their scenes-sounding good everyone! Thursday will be our final RP day, next stop NYC.

Make sure to turn in your IPA sound changes over your scenes-due the day you perform.
Happy Birthday Shelli!

Stay dry and see ya Thursday.

April 5th

We continued to practice our RP accents, speaking common phrases in a circle. Try and find at least one phrase that can bring you back to the accent if you get off. Then we had three groups perform their RP scenes. Nice work guys!

For Tuesday: 

1. Do IPA on your scenes-make sure to type up your scene. (You only have to do IPA above your lines)

2. Keep practicing your RP

3. Make up diphthong quiz after class on Tuesday

Tuesday April 3rd

Welcome back everyone! Hope you had a nice break.

Today we jumped back into IPA-land and took the diphthong quiz. After that we reviewed the British (RP) dialect and then did the IPA vowel changes on the RP scenes. Finish these scenes with your partner, check them with me and then type up your lines, put the IPA vowel changes above each word. You will need to turn in the "score" of your scene on the day you perform it.

Here are the performance dates:

Thursday 4/5-James/Semhar,   Sondra/Megan,   Noah/Hanna

Tuesday 4/10-Clarissa/Ramona,  Tiffany/ Zach,  Jason/Stephanie,  Troy/Jason R,  Vasili/Alex,  Josh/Roger

Thursday 4/12- Josh/Steve,  Kyle/Doug,  Sam/Mia,  Mitchell/Andrew,  Mo/Semhar

For Thursday: 

1. Practice your scene in RP
2. Do the IPA extra credit and bring flash drive if you haven't!
3. If you have to do a make up quiz (vowel or diphthong) make sure you can stay after class on Thursday. I will stay from 2-2:30.

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.