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Hello everyone!  Welcome to Speech and Theatre Arts, commonly called "Drama" class around the hallways of Marie Murphy School!  I'm Mrs. Roche, and I'm so glad that you've taken the time to visit my blog.  Whether you are a parent, student, or community member, I look forward to our educational partnership this year, and I'd [...]

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The 2011 MMS Spring Play will be..."There's A Ghost in My Locker," by Christopher Barruto.  It's a fun little comedy about how three wishes can turn a bad situtation...worse!
All MMS students are invited to audition.  There is a significant time commitment after school to the rehearsal schedule.  Rehearsal schedule and audition information, along with the [...]

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Oscar Nominees were announced last week!  Each Spring, I hold a contest in each class period to see which student can pick the most number of eventual Oscar winners.  Students--start doing your research!
A list of the Oscar nominees can be found here at the Oscar website:  Oscar Nominees

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The 7th grade drama students celebrated the close of a challenging film study unit with a film festival in which all movies made as a final project were viewed.  The movies were enjoyable, high quality, and demonstrated advanced film techniques.  Students were encouraged to take part in voting for  winners in four categories:  1)  Best [...]

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In 8th grade, we are finishing our Shakespeare unit.  We have learned about Shakespeare's life, his language, his theatre, and studied his sonnets and the play, Much Ado About Nothing.  As part of our unit, the students memorized and prepared one of Shakespeare's sonnets for an oral interpretation performance.  Here are some examples of some [...]

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We've been talking about verbal and nonverbal speaking skills all last week in class, and then, over the weekend, I was alerted to a real-life public speaker who gave us a lot to talk about in class.
Check it out:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/politician-phil-davison-freaks-out-during-speech-11600742

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Hi there!  Welcome to Speech and Theatre Arts, commonly called "Drama class" around the hallways of Marie Murphy School!  I'm Mrs. Roche, and I'm so glad that you've taken the time to visit our blog.  Whether you will see me in class first or second semester, you can be assured that I'm very happy to [...]

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The 8th graders officially graduated last night.  Congrats!  We wrapped things up last week in drama class with some of the best dramatic performances to date.  Not only that, but many students who struggled in the past with shyness, gave triumphant performances of personal power.  Well done, everyone.  Here's one excellent example:
"Rehearsal," authored by Mary [...]

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It's been a great semester in 6th grade!  We have wrapped things up for the year with some fun comedy sketches.  We talked about what makes things funny and worked on implementing that into scripted scene work in larger groups.  Here are the videos of our performances!  Enjoy!  To my 6th graders:  it's been so [...]

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