Monday, May 30th: Memorial Holiday
No School
Tuesday, May 31st:
Presentations of
Rough Draft by Underclassmen:
Sarena: Young Nigerian who has come to the States.
Kimberly: Fifty-seven year old African leader, educated in the U.S. He is giving a speech to his people telling them they must turn away from the old ways. He is not going to leave an heir to rule after him for he wants democracy for his country - not a monarchy.
Akili: Transgendered youth at a poetry slam. Tragic, difficult childhood - father dead, mother an addict.
Kimberly: Fifty-seven year old African leader, educated in the U.S. He is giving a speech to his people telling them they must turn away from the old ways. He is not going to leave an heir to rule after him for he wants democracy for his country - not a monarchy.
Akili: Transgendered youth at a poetry slam. Tragic, difficult childhood - father dead, mother an addict.
Final Presentation by
Graduating Seniors:
Gus Rodriguez: speaking in front of the judge begging for custody of his son. Never had a family as a child. Most passionate wish has always been to be part of a family so it is vitally important that he be allowed to keep his son.
Wednesday, June 1st:
Presentations of Senior Finals:
Katia: struggling young woman complaining to a counselor
that she cannot pay for her college tuition.
Karla: helper, plays the college counselor
Tania: (rough draft – reading from script) a model who is
emotionally closed up and cannot open up to people.
Sarena: helper, plays the photographer
Justin: (rough draft – reading from script) Iraqi leader
speaking to an assembly of his subordinates urging them to turn away from
violence and towards peace.
Thursday, June 2nd:
Thursday, June 2nd:
Presentations of Photos and Rough Draft:
Elizabeth D.
Daughter giving a eulogy of mother she didn't appreciate until many years later.
Daughter giving a eulogy of mother she didn't appreciate until many years later.
Akili – rough draft of poem, transgendered
youth
Final Senior Presentations:
Franklin - mourning a dying love
Typed monologue, presentation
Typed monologue, presentation
Ivette - confessing to Dad about the truth of where the college money went and why she isn't graduating.
Typed monologue, presentation
For tomorrow:
The following graduating seniors need to do their final presentations:
Karla
Pamela
The following students need to do their photo, biographical information, and rough draft of monologue:
Chynna, Emily, Jazzmyn, Kimberly, Miriam, Sarena, Tanny, Whitney
Friday, June 3rd:
Typed monologue, presentation
For tomorrow:
The following graduating seniors need to do their final presentations:
Karla
Pamela
The following students need to do their photo, biographical information, and rough draft of monologue:
Chynna, Emily, Jazzmyn, Kimberly, Miriam, Sarena, Tanny, Whitney
Friday, June 3rd:
Initial Presentations:
Whitney: photo, biographical details, no
monologue
Young twenty-one year old woman with a
tough childhood – didn’t know parents, lived in foster care. Now living in a penthouse apartment
thanks to a much older boyfriend. Suggestion: She is speaking to her boyfriend
at two a.m. after her birthday party. The party, which didn’t go as well as
planned, brought up a lot of old issues: feeling unworthy, issues of
abandonment.
Luiza: photo, biographical details, rough
draft of monologue – very good!
Letter to her little brother upon
graduation from high school
Olivia’s parents divorced, mother fell
apart after the divorce, and took to drink and boyfriends.
Olivia defended her little brother against
one of her mother’s boyfriends and accidently killed him. Mother sided against
her and sent her to her father who clearly didn’t want her. Gave her money to
leave country to hide in Europe, where she became a photographer. Her mother has since died from an
overdose. Olivia, now living as Maya, has heard that her much loved brother is graduating
and wants to see him again and ask for forgiveness.
Suggestion: Olivia is in the same room with
her brother. She has taken an enormous risk to enter country to see her brother
again to ask forgiveness. This may be the last time she will ever see him.
Final Presentations for Seniors:
Karla – unhappy medical student who is
clearly not cut out for a career in medicine. She is in medical school only to please her father who is a
doctor. Spends all of her time either working or studying and even when she
studies, she doesn’t get what she’s studying.
Helpers: Justin and Pamela as her parents.
Pamela – stripper in a club. Tragic
childhood – father killed, mother fell apart and became a meth addict. The meth
eventually destroyed her mother’s mind and the daughter had no choice but to
put her in a nursing home. Was
brutally raped by a customer at the club. Now she is leaving the East coast and
moving to California for a fresh start. She is talking to the kindly club
owner, a woman, who is her mentor and mother figure. She allowed Pamela to live at the club when she had no other
place to go.
Powerful performance!
