{"id":617,"date":"2016-10-12T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T00:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/?p=617"},"modified":"2016-10-12T00:14:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T00:14:34","slug":"act-iii-week-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/2016\/10\/12\/act-iii-week-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Act III, Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Thursday (10\/6), we had our first meeting with the kids.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We introduced ourselves, and gave them a general overview of what we will be doing together over the next couple months.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Our group this week consisted of one student from Brook Road Academy and three students from the Dooley Center for Alternative Education. None of the students have any prior experience with Shakespeare. We assured them that no one would have to memorize any lines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Our first student seemed eager and excited, and he even offered to try memorizing his part.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We decided to show them the trailer to She\u2019s the Man so they could visualize the plot of the play in a modern context.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Then we played a series of improv \/ warm up games (the adjective-name game, zip zap zop, \u201c3, 6, 9,\u201d and the number count off game).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Initially, the students were visibly reluctant, but I could see the group\u2019s barriers slowly breaking down as we played each game and I think they actually had some fun.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>After this first meeting, I definitely understand the importance of these games to get everyone laughing and comfortable, so the group will trust us and want to work with us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I think we will try to play at least one or two new games in the beginning of each rehearsal to remind the kids that this will be a fun experience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We plan to introduce the script and more details about our specific act of the play next rehearsal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday (10\/6), we had our first meeting with the kids.\u00a0 We introduced ourselves, and gave them a general overview of what we will be doing together over the next couple months.\u00a0 Our group this week consisted of one student from Brook Road Academy and three students from the Dooley Center for Alternative Education. None [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}