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Assignment #3 slides- Swing Rhythm Cheesecake

For my cross-genre translation, I adapted my theatre mini lesson on the elements of tableaux to be a recipe card. This conversion actually worked extremely well, and as it turns out, could be a useful tool for my classroom. There are a lot of drama activities and concepts that would translate well to a recipe card format (eg. large scale concepts like “Creating Character” to more specific micro-skills like selecting acting tactics) and having these cards available for students to reference in class could be a valuable learning and review resource for students when they’re working!

I think a recipe card could even work well as a graphic organizer if ever I wanted the students to take their own notes in class (which is uncommon in drama). They could build their own “Drama Recipe Box” with categories like “games,” “warm-ups,” or “creation tools,”  which would give them a personalized, visual representation of the drama repertoire they had built throughout the course.

Top-Notch Tableaux Recipe Card

Update: Someone mentioned I should throw up the template. Here’s the pdf file — I tried to get up the pages file but it’s not supported by the blog. Feel free to email me if you’d like it.

Concept Recipe Card Template

Because I’m fancy I used a font called “Buttercup” for the template text.

If you’d like it, you can download it here: https://www.dafont.com/buttercup.font

Here’s my IFEA instruction manual for teaching musical phrasing!  Enjoy!

Frasenmaker

This way of creating simple, use friendly step by step instructions was very useful for distilling what in real-time is a very subjective, sense-based, internalized process for students in a way to create access to this skill.  This idea could be continued into other content areas within music (use of metronome or tuner, making program notes) as a fun and “known” way that could be handed out to students as a template to follow when learning a new skill.

Characterization Graphic Organizer

Short Story – Nancy Lee Johnson

For the literary device of characterization (direct & indirect) I decided to create a picture. I used my graphic organizer (attached above) to guide my visual character creation. I made choices while creating this that reflect her character as she is characterized in the short story: I decided to depict her race, her confidence, and a few of her interests.

I found that, although art and English are very different disciplines, I learned more about the character from creating this picture than I did from reading the story. The act of thoughtfully depicting Nancy Lee Johnson using her characteristics described in the story gave me an idea of a well-rounded character and what characteristics are important to describe/depict.

Newcastle March – Johnnie Vinson

https://youtu.be/vyGziWBEzGI

History and Characteristics of a March: Sonnet

Upon the hill the drums wait for their cue;

The bugles stare down on the field below;

The heartbeats match a tempo felt in two;

The sounds will lead with army near in tow.

The music in the park fills up the air;

The brass, the flutes, and drums beneath the arch;

A crowd begins to cluster ‘round and stare;

Familiar rhythms of a Sousa march.

A football field of padded, tall brigades

The halftime show permits the band to shine;

New Orleans streets are bustling with parades;

A funeral progression second line.

Percussion are the pulse, our steady beat

That keep a feel for march beneath our feet.

The Berlin Airlift & Containment

     After the Soviets cut off surface traffic to West Berlin on June 27^th 1948, the United States believed they had a right to be in Berlin, including the right to access. The Soviets however did not agree. Shipments by rail and road came to a halt. A desperate Berlin, faced with starvation and in need of vital supplies, looked to the West for help. President Truman, wishing to avoid war or a humiliating retreat, supported an air campaign that sent over two million tons of supplies in approx. 270,000 flights to Berlin. At this time, a man by the name of Gail Halvorson, better known as “Uncle Wiggly Wings”, from Utah, dropped a bunch of candy to children of the blockaded city. This is a recipe of Cold War Containment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmanS-4nc4Y

The Berlin Airlift Student Activity

https://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/berlin.htm

KUED. (2013, 12 6). Inspiring Story of The Candy Bomber. Retrieved 05 27, 2019 from Google Sites: https://www.kued.org/pressroom/kued-tells-inspiring-story-the-candy-bomber

Map of Berlin and Allied Nations

Recipe of Containment- Operation Vittles (Food)

Materials/Supplies

1. Communist- USSR (east Berlin)
2. Capitalists- United States and Allies (West Berlin)
3. Candy Bomber Pilot, Gail Halvorson (Uncle Wiggly Wings)
4. Hungry Children in East Berlin
5. Berlin Tempelhof Air Field
6. Chocolate and Candy donations
7. Media for publicity
8. A Loaded plane
9. A Dropzone
10. A Map

Directions

1. First you need a US President willing to help prevent the spread of communism in Europe and the word. In our case, it’s President Harry S. Truman
2. Next you need to take action and help rebuild Europe. Send $13 billion of aid to communist USSR
3. For a PR boost and to support the hungry children of East Berlin, find a pilot from Berlin Tempelholf Air Field
4. Collect as many chocolates and candy that you possibly can to deliver to children of the blockade
5. Load your plane with tons of food and supplies including the chocolate and candy
6. Instruct Gail Halvorson, “Uncle Wiggly Wings” to drop the Candy in East Berlin near the blockade zone
7. Contact media for some good ol’ media and public relations
8. Locate the blockade dropzone on your map
9. You will then experience Happy German children shouting for “bon bon”
10. Wiggle Gail’s wings and release the candy to the children
11. Continue from the top from 1948- 1949 to fulfill containment and lift the Soviet blockade