March 14 (Tues.)

The 12 Labor plays are really coming along! Yesterday they finished writing. I ended up putting all of their scripts together to make one, mostly because it was taking a really long time to type the script out. Rather than making three different ones, I combined all three to make one. Honestly, Block 1 didn’t overwhelm me like usual. I used a lot of B3 and at least 2 whole scenes from B2. It was pretty evenly distributed. Anyway, each class will use the same script. They were really excited about it in class today when they read the final product. Most of them went looking for the part they wrote- it was great to hear them comment on how I had used the part they had written, especially from the kids in B2, who are always putting themselves down as the ‘dumb’ kids.

We started speeches today. This is going to be a project similar to the fable speeches, but a good deal shorter and to the point. It’s really a creative idea-Wendy came up with it, and we created the handout together. The kids are running to take over as ruler of the gods since they are few up with Zeus killing humans and running around on his wife. Lynn worked with Johanna and I worked with Minah and Sumaya. Gabby was out with Mrs. Goodheart for something, but she’ll make it up during homework help with Lynn. Anyway, Minah was very thorough, looking through lots of books before she would make her decision. Sumaya knew right off that she wanted to be Posiedon, so I helped her find some stories and information about him. She took really great notes, not just copying from the book, but writing down key words like in the note-taking activity we did a while ago.