Hey Everyone!

Today for Creative & Media Diploma our first lesson was dance. When everyone got to dance and got settled in, our teacher was not really that pleased with us. It was because none of us did our homework and all of us had a detention that day to catch up on it! The homework was to research a dance movie that uses props and also bring in props like umbrellas, hats, gloves, scarves etc. . We wrote down what we were supposed to do and that it was due on Thursday. After we got that understood, it was time to start the lesson with a quick game - Freeze Tag!!! After 20 minutes (which actually felt like 5min.) of playing around it was time to get to serious business.

We did what we usually do: we got into our groups and Miss taught us some new moves to put into our dance. We started by putting on our gloves and after that we put on our scarves and got into a straight line. Once we got into the straight line Miss told us to stop right there. Then she added some more moves where you had to be higher than the person in front of you. Like for example, lets say there is 3 people in the line, the person in front would sit down, the next person would kneel down, and the last person would stand. So after everyone got that dance move into our heads she told us to make up two movements but still staying in the line. My group decided to have the first person put their right hand and right foot out of the line and second person put their left hand and foot out of the line, the third person in line put their right hand and right foot out of the line, and so on and so on. That was our first movement. For our second movement the people that were on the right side alternate to their left side and rub their hands together and people on the left side alternate to their right side and their hands together as well.
When we showed the teacher what we had done, she was very pleased. After that it was time to put that into our whole entire dance piece. We had to finish our storyboard. The storyboard is just a sheet of paper with writing on it explaining the dance moves your group is doing. So after finished it we rehearsed our dance moves. But not before the media class interrupted us by taking pictures of us for their class work! After we finished rehearsing it was time to film our dance. When we finished with that it was time to pack up and leave and get ready for drama.
In drama we were given a little bit of time to study our lines because we were not allowed to have our scripts when we are doing our run-through at the end of the lesson. After that it was time to rehearse our plays. We spent a while on it so we could perfect it more. Then the teacher told us it was time to perform to the class. After when both groups went, the teacher pulled us all onto the floor and we had a talk. We talked about when we will actually be performing to the primary schools. It's the week after the next and we also talked about what we will be doing for costumes. For my costume I will be wearing a suit with a hat. For the dance piece in our play everyone will be wearing a t-shirt and leggings. After that it was time to get our stuff and leave.