I Teach Acting 110-Personal Narrative

Additionally, DCMS has been invited to be part of the International Thespian Society (ITS), which is the Educational Theatre Association’s highest student honorary organization. Since 1929. Needless to say, we are beyond excited about this opportunity! The ITS’s mission is shaping lives through theatre education by: honoring student achievement in theatre and enriching their theatre education

It was a beautiful evening in April, and the weather was finally starting to get warm again. After a tough and bitter winter, little buds were appearing on flowers and trees, and some color was returning to the world. Above, the sun was setting creating various shades of red, pink, and orange across the blue sky. Among an audience, darkness encompassed the room creating an anxious silence. Only after a few seconds the stars came out. The stage lights came on nearly blinding the audience, and the actress said her first line.

Cameron Academy, the place where it all started for me. The first ever school that I had gone to. It was the place where I learned to fear anyone older and bigger than you because the teenagers there were not above fighting kindergarteners. Where I learned that the safest place to be after school was the office because the fights between the police and the students that took place outside on the front steps of the school were too brutal for me to witness; at least that's what my mom told me. That school was the place where I learned to be ashamed of any art that I may produce, to always keep it to myself, lest I be laughed at by the teachers. Cameron Academy is where I learned that “bad” kindergarteners who were in Ms. Valorie’s class got beat up.

Magic carpet rides and genies have never seemed realistic to show “a whole new world.” Never would I think a children’s Disney production would help me realize how my talents and interests can change the world; however, when children are involved, their joyful innocence enlighten me to be a positive influence.

It has come to my knowledge that in order to join cross country I would need to go to the summer program. Due to being in summer school for Geometry(for two semesters), and my mother wanting to get the most out of the summer athletics program signed me up for tennis. This was due to tennis despite being right after summer school was in a time zone that I could attend, on the other hand cross country was held in the later half of the summer a time that my family dedicated for a mix of vacations and christian camps; and because of the various events would make it so I couldn't come to a good portion of the cross country program, making it the worse of two choices. However, because I am now unable to go to the summer program I was hoping if I

Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I have searched and searched for a talent that would give me a unique identity to make me stand out from my peers. When I was five years old, I was given the chance to be in a musical in our city's community theatre, PMT. This musical was "The Wizard of Oz", and I played the role of a munchkin in the Lollipop Guild. This initially sparked a great interest in theatre, and I fell in love with acting. I had an amazing mentor for my youth acting career, the late Jack Ewing. He played Harold Hill in PMT's production of "The Music Man", while I had the opportunity to play the role of Winthrop, the young boy that helps Harold Hill become a better person. (Jack later died a year before I had the chance to play the role of Harold Hill in my high school's production of "The Music Man Jr.") When I was about nine, PMT dissolved as an organization and therefore there was no community theatre around me for years, which put a setback in my interest and talent for theatre.

Our Drama Club is very active throughout the school year promoting drama activities including performances and special events. Any student who is involved with our Theatre Arts program or has a

In the previous years, I have made the decision to work concurrently with my education. I have been working as a waitress in a local restaurant for years. My parents were opposed to my working since they wanted me to focus on my grades, but I wanted to lessen the financial burden for them. Both of my parents never received an education and they wanted me to solely focus on school to secure myself a better future despite our poverty.

It has been a while since we last spoke in Boston. I hope all is well in America. I have just about had enough of China and am excited on coming home in a few weeks.

Before my senior year of high school, I was a very shy, closed-off individual. However, my last year I wanted to change that. The primary way I sought to do this was through participating in high school theater. If I was given $10,000 and 30 days, I, Jacob Smith, would put forth these resources towards the improvement of Roxana High School’s drama department.

First off, I would like to say how disappointed I am that I did not get to have you as an AP Literature teacher because you were such an amazing teacher last year I cannot imagine how much more I would have learned this year. Though I definitely did not appreciate the work it took, the poetry project you had us do last year is probably one of the few projects that I have ever looked back on and truly understood the deeper understanding I got for the subject because of it. However, as I am sure you can tell, I still have terrible grammar (because I have terrible concentration, not because you didn't do a good job trying to make me understand, but I do remember that a gerund is a verb that acts as a noun.

I feel privileged to mention here that I have felt accepted and encouraged by my theatrical colleagues in the U.S. I have been supported and welcomed by my fellow actors and directors as I performed a wide diversity of roles. I am really interested in studying at Yale's summer session and would especially value the training being offered by the Yale faculty in the fundamentals of acting. I believe that the teachers and students at Yale would enhance my awareness of my craft and its utilization in U.S. theater, television

I have been teaching students and newly qualified theatre practitioners as a registered ODP for more than 10 years and as a SODP for one year. Working with

The class I am tutoring is a 3rd grade classroom at Palmers Elementary. Mrs Keri Shivle is the teacher of the classroom. I tutor Tuesday from 12:30 to 1:30pm. The times i'm in the classroom the students are always reading or doing an language art activity. The times i have been in the classroom i been working with three students. One is Jakiey and Lavonta and sometimes i work with Angeli. I do different things with them such as helping them with homework or reading to them and then having them read it back to me. We also play games such as vocabulary ones, phonics.

In the agricultural community I live in, it was bound to happen. Against my father's will, I woke up at the break of dawn, along with my aunt and a few other women to go work in the field. I jumped out of bed and prepared my belongings. I wore an old pair of jeans and a flannel. To add to my look, I wore tennis shoes and tied a bandana around my neck. I wanted to look the part. My aunt loaded her truck with our lunch boxes and water and we were on our way to work.