Sunday, October 29, 2006

I brought in costume pieces on Friday, so the kids were noticeably pumped.  The class had that Friday afternoon energy—excited that the weekend is coming ahead.  I told them the costume pieces were from Miss Z, and I pulled them out one at a time—asking what characters should wear what.  Unfortunately, no one was interested in wearing the disguise nose/glasses that I thought were hilarious.  I had us start with scene 3—when Mr. Scary’s skull is taken by the aliens.  We then moved to our most chaotic scene—where the students create music that scares the aliens away.  I mistakingly brought in some cheap party favor harmonicas and flutes, so when they had them in their hands, they couldn’t help but play them…loudly.  So, it was hard to actually make it through the scene, and we spent ample time on it.  We got through it, finally, and ended up working on the spraypainting part of the scene.  We still have to do the “arrest” ending scene—but then we are done. 

We have one more class left, so I’m still thinking about what would be most valuable to them—I hate ending classes when I don’t have a specific ceremony or process in mind.  We can start by having them finish the scene—so we have a written script.  I thought we would go back and act the whole thing out, but I’m not sure it’s necessary.  Maybe an ending would be packaging up our script, so we can deliver it to Miss Z?  Or, in the curriculum—we do a commercial for the show—maybe I can do that, too, so we can begin to address the idea of advertising and audience.