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Prompt	Due Date
#1 Write about what you think Performing Arts is. What does it involve? What kind of careers? Have you ever done anything considered to be in the Performing Arts realm? Would be interested in a career involving Performing Arts? Why or Why not?
#2 Next time you go to a restaurant, park, or mall, sit for a moment and listen to the activity around you. Then jot down interesting fragments of conversation you overhear. Such fragments can make great opening lines in an improvisation.	08/30/18
#3 What does it take to "sell" a song to an audience? Think about a musical performer whose work you have admired either in a musical play or in a non-theatrical medium. What is it about this person's style that attracts and intrigues you? Write your thoughts and impressions.	09/04/18
#4 Keep notes on what you notice about the way people move when doing various things, such as getting on a bus, walking downstairs, running to catch up with friends, describing something large and impressive, walking into class late, or getting up from a sunken couch. After you observe these things, talk about how movement relates to Performing Arts.	09/06/18
#5 Next time you sit down to a meal, watch and listen to the people around the table. Who starts most of the conversations? Who is the joker at the table? Who's the rebel? Keep an eye on the way body language conveys people's roles and attitudes. You can make use of the same attitudes and habits in your acting roles.	09/10/18
#6 Skim through a newspaper. fine a story that has serious elements, such as a fire, a car accident, or some other life-or-death incident. in you journal, write a short account of the event from the point of view of someone either directly or peripherally involved. Try to think about the events as they might seem to that person.	09/12/18
#7 Think of a character from a play you have read or seen. Looking around the classroom, think about which of your classmates might play the role in a school production. Write a short entry explaining your choice.	09/14/18
#8 Write a description of one or more of the spaces you frequent. Examine the design elements of the space. see if you can figure out how the designers achieved or failed to achieve a desired mood. Try to determine how the appealing elements would be translated to the stage.	09/18/18
#9 Go to a shopping mall or supermarket. Stop and listen for three minutes. Write an entry on what you heard. What sound effects might you record if you were the sound designer for a play set in one of these environments.	09/20/18
#10 What are the style elements of you generation? Describe, and if possible, sketch, the shape or basic silhouette of the clothes you and your friends wear. Why do you think these styles are popular?	09/24/18
#11 Observe the facial characteristics and hairstyles of the people in a public place, such as a park, mall, or supermarket. Capture a few of these people in your journal by drawing their faces and writing short descriptions of their features.	09/26/18
#12 Write a monologue that a character would say to another character beginning with the line: “I have been waiting to tell you…”	09/28/18
#13 Write a short scene in dialogue form between two characters where one character is keeping a secret from the other. Give both characters about 5-10 lines each.	10/02/18
#14 Write a short scene in which a famous person is applying for a not so famous job. What questions would they be answering and what responses would they give. Give both characters about 5-10 lines each.	10/04/18
#15 Write a short scene in which someone in your life is given a difficult choice to make. How would they react, and what would they do. Give both characters about 5-10 lines each.	10/09/18
#16 Chat Pack	10/11/18
#17 In one paragraph, write a monologue that a character would say to another character beginning with the line: “I have the best news…”	10/15/18
#18 In one paragraph, write a monologue that a character would say to another character beginning with the line: “You won’t believe it when I tell you…”	10/17/18
#19 In one paragraph, write a monologue that a character would say to another character beginning with the line: “ How could you do this to me…”	10/19/18
#20 Take a person you admire and describe him/her in one paragraph, including what drives them as a person, what they are most afraid of, who they love the most, and who they look up to…	10/23/18
#21 Acting is believing is a phrase that is said in acting classes all of the time. What does this mean.	10/25/18
#22 Who we are may not be how others actually see us. What's one aspect of yourself that you think people probably misunderstand about you? Write a descriptive paragraph to show how you are different from the reflection others actually see.	10/30/18
#23 You have just found 100% undeniable proof that everyone that you know is actually an alien. In one paragraph, describe the events you will experience tomorrow after you wake up.	11/01/18
#24 What scares you most about being in front of people, acting, or otherwise being vulnerable onstage? Explain these fears in one paragraph.	11/05/18
#25 Who is an actor or performer that you admire and why. Explain what you admire in one paragraph.	11/07/18
#26Who is an actor or performer that you do not like. Explain your reasoning behind not liking this person or their work in one paragraph.	11/09/18
#27 What are three qualities that an actor needs to be successful playing a role onstage or on screen? In a paragraph, explain your thoughts.	11/14/18
#28 If you were to cast yourself as a character in a play, film, or TV show, who would you be and why? In a paragraph, explain your thoughts.	11/16/18
#29 Anyone can act. Do you agree or disagree. Why? In a paragraph, explain your thoughts.	11/20/18
#30 You can't teach talent, you have to be born with it. Do you agree or disagree. Why? In a paragraph, explain your thoughts.	11/27/18
#31 What kind of superhero would you like to be and why? In one paragraph, explain your thoughts.	11/29/18
#32 Think of a song that really inspires you. What inspires you about the song? In one paragraph, explain your thoughts.	12/03/18
#33 I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. ~Oscar Wilde. In one paragraph, react to or explain what Wilde is saying.	12/05/18
#34 The actor is an athlete of the heart. ~Antonin Artaud. In one paragraph, react to or explain what Artaud is saying.	12/07/18
#35 Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul and you answer. Star Richés. In one paragraph, react to or explain what Riches is saying.	12/11/18