DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT 11/11
NEA
Educators benefitted 4 third
5 4/5, 1 each K-2, 4 sp ed 1 library total 17 teachers
students benefitted 479
2000 Greatest accomplishment
5 original operas written, produced and performed by students
evening performance of presented 5 mini-operas to their parents. What a WONDERFUL experience!! First of all, the auditorium was PACKED -- standing room only!! one class did such a great job at sharing information about the opera process between each opera.
LARGE SCALE MURAL THAT COVERS TWO SIDES OF CITY BLOCK RETAIN WALL OF SCHOOL 4th grade students (65)
2000 lasting results
2000 reaction to activities colleagues & students
The ARIA Opera Program helped students by developing self-esteem (especially as performers), promoting exciting attitudes toward school and opera, interpersonal skills (as they worked together to learn about operas; then write and perform their own opera) and improving student behavior.
Our ELL and special education students need extra support in all areas of literacy: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Activities with our teaching artist as well as field trips, Adler Fellows visit and opera projects gave all students new literacy strategies and skills.
Our Principal wholeheartedly supports Aria. This year she had one-time funds through Prop A to pay for some of the extra hours teachers spent in opera PD. We were also able to use some of the PEEF Elementary Arts funds ).
Week 1 Sept. 14
Slide presentation of SF Murals, Name Game
Week 2 Sept. 21
Ceramic-working with clay, drawing exercise
Week 3 Sept. 28
Video, drawing exercise
Week 4 Oct. 5
Painting on tiles, painting ceramic pieces
Week 5 Oct. 12
Field trip to another mural (TBA)
Week 6 Oct 19
Drawing/collage exercise-design day
Week 7 Oct. 26
Design day-cut & paste, assembling the mural design
Week 8 Nov. 2
Fabrication, laying tile
Week 9 Nov. 9
Fabrication, laying tile
Week 10 Nov. 16
Fabrication, laying tile
Week 11 Nov. 23
Fabrication, laying tile
Week 12 Nov. 30
Grouting
Week 13 Dec. 7
Grouting
Week 14 Dec. 14
Grouting
Week 15 Jan. 4, 2011
Mural unveiling, students make presentations & receive certificates of appreciation
2000 challenges how address.resolve
few teachers didn't follow through on their commitment to the PD aspect of the program. If those teachers had followed through on their PD commitment, you would never have had to deal with the opera education department administration. Also, we prefer for issues and complaints about a teaching artist to be taken up with them directly, as soon as it becomes an issue,
2000 different approach what would have done differently
Assistance and support that would help might include:
Buses for the field trips.
Funds for supplies for costumes and sets
Publicity-arrange for news/TV etc to come to schools for events
Suggestions of possible grants we could apply to supplement scarce resources
Stipends for attending workshops
Books and media titles for school library
Suggestions of appropriate on-line resources for students (and teachers)
Template letters and articles for parent newsletters: Fall Welcome overview; Opera in Ballpark & Spring: calendar events like Adler & Scene shop activities; Opera events for families in summer. Schools can add name to template & translate.
Webinar for some of the workshops; on-line teacher resources: history of Opera in SF, Museum of Performance and Design, Bay View Opera House; SFPL history collections, etc.
Citywide day of student performances at Opera House!
APPLICANT ENCOURGEMENT AASL grant exploratorium Oct 2011; CSLA Magic Touch workshop Nov 2011
Suggestions
expenses
MC544LL/A IPOD TOUCH 32G (4TH GEN)-USA 10 $2,750.00
in kind
30 visits with each classroom, 9 PDs with educators, 10+ available opera resources, etc. Please know that our program is larger than any other in San Francisco. We hope that Robert Lewis Stevenson enjoyed the $19,300 grant that was received in order for San Francisco Opera to partner with 8 classes this year, our second year together.
corresponding materials.. mail
http://will2change.pbworks.com/w/page/44546017/Magic%20Touch%20Agenda
This is a reminder that this coming Sunday, May 1 at 2pm, we’ll all be viewing the SF Conservatory of Music’s production of The Telephone, by Carlo Menotti. I will be in attendance as well, so I’ll keep an eye out for all of you. The performance is free, so please be sure to show up slightly early…I suggest around 1:30pm. I plan on arriving at 1:15pm.
Afterwards, we’ll briefly meet to discuss a next meeting time for Opera Club. We definitely want to consider this opera for school visits next year.developed materials mail
thanks for last week/ let me know if you need more ideas...
I have been thinking about the curriculum & I have a few suggestions: 1. discuss telephone timeline..from Edison to iPhone; maybe they could reearch & make timeline...with annotations how things changed & evolved with phones 2. Edison's birthday in in Feb so could look into his bio..that he was not a great student etc.. 3. also research about trains/history of train transportation...esp. transcontinental for out here...kids esp. boys love trains...I think very few kids have been on train, even Caltrain...
4. older kids:what happened after the end of play... also develop a play with characters that were on the other end of the phone... 5. Some might be interested in bio of Menotti..that he was born in Italy, lived in Columbia, went to school in PA ..that he had 8 siblings, stuff like that for kids...Prizes that he won, when, where, why....they could do map of places that were important & why 6. Telephone was written in 1947...what else was going on that year/era? Just a few example of dates that still impact live today that happened in 1947 |
January
Nigeria gains limited autonomy.
January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
February
Percival Prattis becomes the first African-American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries.
February 10 – In Paris, France, peace treaties are signed between the World War II Allies and Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland. Italy cedes most of Istria to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
February 21 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
February 22 – Tom and Jerry cartoon Cat Fishin', is released.
March
March 6 – USS Newport News, the first completely air-conditioned warship, is launched in Newport News, Virginia.
April
Jackie Robinson, the first African American in modern Major League Baseball, signs a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
April 15 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball.
May
May 22 – The Cold War begins: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an Act of Congress that implements the Truman Doctrine. This Act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.
June
June 5 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe.
July
July 11 – The Exodus leaves France for Palestine, with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees on board.
August
The greater Indian subcontinent with a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, etc. formed by the Partition of India gain independence from the British Empire and retains the name India.
Louis Mountbatten becomes the first Governor General of India. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first Prime Minister of India.
September
September 13 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggests the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.
October
October 14 – The United States Air Force test pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager, flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound, the first time it has been accomplished
October 30 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is established.
November
In California, the designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. (The flight lasts only eight minutes, and the "Spruce Goose" is never flown again.)
November 6 – The program Meet the Press makes its television debut on the NBC-TV network in the United States.
November 29 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, which results in the creation of the State of Israel.
December
December 6 – Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello, which was based on William Shakespeare's play Othello, for a broadcast on NBC Radio. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.
The first practical electronic transistor is demonstrated by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley of the United States.
The Titanic
Scene 1: Boarding the Titanic
VENDORS ON STAGE
NARRATORS ON STAGE
ALL: 1912.
NARRATORS:
ALL: Her name was the Titanic.
NARRATORS:
ALL: The Titanic was unsinkable!
ALL: April 10th, 1912.
NARRATORS:
ENTER FAMILY -- DIALOGUE
ARIA 1 – PART 1 (sung by family and all)
(FAMILY)
It’s very big and beautiful
The rooms are all so grand
We’ll dress up in our fancy clothes
Then listen to the band.
Refrain – (FAMILY)
The Titanic is unsinkable.
It’s very unbelievable.
I’m so excited to be on this ship.
Refrain – (ALL)
The Titanic is unsinkable.
It’s very unbelievable.
I’m so excited to be on this ship.
ENTER FRIENDS -- DIALOGUE
ENTER BROTHERS -- DIALOGUE
ARIA 1 – PART 2 (sung by brothers and all)
(BROTHERS)
I heard it is unsinkable.
I wonder if it floats
I heard there is a swimming pool.
Are there such things on boats?
Refrain (ALL)
The Titanic is unsinkable.
It’s very unbelievable.
I’m so excited to be on this ship.
ENTER CREW -- DIALOGUE
ARIA 1 – PART 3 (sung by crew)
(CREW)
This is the first ship of its kind
The largest ever made
A scientific miracle
Her memory will not fade!
(CREW)
The Titanic is unsinkable
It’s very unbelievable
I’m so excited to be on this ship.
ARIA 1 - PART 4 (sung by all)
(ALL)
We’re here on her maiden voyage
Across America
We’ll cross the sea in record time
A brand new life for us!
(ALL)
The Titanic is unsinkable
It’s very unbelievable
I’m so excited to be on this ship.
END OF SCENE 1
Scene 2: The Night it Sank
SLEEPERS ON STAGE (DOWN LEFT)
CREW ON STAGE (CENTER BACK)
NARRATORS ON STAGE
ALL: Late at night - April 14th, 1912.
NARRATORS:
<PARTY ENTERS ON “Tonight”>
<SLEEPERS COME TO LIFE>
<CREW IN V FORMATION MOVES TO CENTER STAGE ON “the crew” AND LOOKS OUT.
ALL: No one could have imagined what was to come…
<CREW MOVES UPSTAGE>
<PARTY COMES TO LIFE>
PARTY DIALOGUE:
<BOOM! ALL “FEEL” BUMP.>
ARIA 2 – PART 1 (sung by party)
Did you hear that?
It was loud.
What will happen
To this crowd?
Was it an iceberg?
That scraping sound?
Water is rushing in.
Are we going to drown?
But it’s unsinkable
This is impossible
The Titanic cannot sink.
<DAD RUNS TO CABINS; BANGS ON DOORS>
CABIN DIALOGUE:
ARIA 2 – PART 2 (sung by all passengers)
Did you hear that?
It was loud.
What will happen
To us all?
Was it an iceberg?
That scraping sound?
Water is rushing in.
Are we going to drown?
But it’s unsinkable
This is impossible
The Titanic cannot sink.
CREW DIALOGUE
ARIA 2 – PART 3 (sung by crew then all)
(CREW)
It was an iceberg!
It’s torn the ship!
Seal off the compartments.
Signal for help.
(CREW)
Prepare the lifeboats
Are there enough?
Women and kids first
They must get off.
(ALL)
But it’s unsinkable
This is impossible
The Titanic cannot sink.
Cannot sink.
<STEP FORWARD ON “This” and “The”>
END SCENE 2