Drama Club - 4/14/08

There are good days and bad days. Today was definitely a bad day. It started out promising enough. I felt like I was in a pretty good mood. I found a new game to play with the kids. I also felt that since they've been doing such good job with the speech that I would spend most of the club playing games. Unfortunately, they hated the game that I chose and tuned out of it immediately. And once I lost them in the beginning, that was it. I also didn't have much of a backup plan because I thought they would love this game. So then I went to rehearsing the scene again and added some new blocking. That, unfortunately, didn't go so well either. They had to go back stage in order to make their entrances. They took that as permission to act as if they were in, "The Lord of the Flies." So after a few rounds of time outs and yelling, I finally just gave up on them. I just couldn't take it anymore. I told them all to just have a seat and do their homework if they wanted to. I was just so sick of the whole thing. On top of that, there was only one kid that actually showed some semblance of good behavior. She's also one of two kids that has actually shown some interest in drama. In the show, there's going to be one separate speaking role. It was in this moment that I chose to give it to the one girl who was behaving. Unfortunately, the other girl took it very hard. She was so devastated that she started crying profusely. I told her that I would find another role for her to play. So basically, I am the worst teacher in the world.