Drama Club - 4/30/08

I've been totally slacking with my blogs. So I'm just going to crank these out as best I can. On Wednesday's Drama Club, I recall that I was having a little bit of difficulty. Mainly because I wanted to try something new. The reason I wanted to try something new was because I was feeling a little bit lazy. But I also wanted to see what the kids were capable of. I had them break up into groups and learn a few lines of Juliet's speech on their own. I wanted to see if they could work together and do my job for me. I monitored the situation closely. I split them up between the boys and girls because you can't mix genders in that situation. Way too much tension. Also, the boys are learning a different speech. I'll start with the boys. They actually did rather well but that was because they had learned a large part of it in the Young Men's Club. Only one of them, Jourdan, was being a complete and total asshole about the whole thing. Seriously, the kid is an asshole. Everyone else was actually making an attempt to learn and he was doing everything he could to be a distraction. This included dancing, going over to the girls side, and sitting out and pouting. On the girl's side, that was just a mess. Basically, the whole thing consisted of one long power struggle. They simply could not work together for 5 minutes. One girl, Javelina, was so upset because everyone wouldn't just do whatever she said. They all had the nerve to have their own ideas. I hate to sound sexist, but the whole thing was really catty. And at such a young age. It ended with me giving up on this idea and going into a group rehearsal. This was then completely derailed because of a huge cockroach/waterbug. Everyone freaked out. Clearly my years of experience in Drama could not compete with the appearance of a large insect.