WEEK 1
Kavin: Week one was quite hectic for myself.. Especially with having summer school in the afternoon, it made it very difficult for me to help Johnson with planning and completing the homework for Randy. During our first session with Randy, it was surprisingly quite short because Johnson took the initiative to finish up the homework that Randy had ask us to do for that week (Thanks!!) We talked about picking the dates and times for our sessions, and talked about what the staff would be doing during our program session. Our first meeting with our volunteers on Friday July 10th was also quite progressive. We discussed about the progress that we had so far since the first week the Summer Youth Projects started. We made a big change with our title of our project! (From Dramatic Drama to The Dramatic Effect) We also had to make changes to our program plan because we realized together that making the participants memorize a script that they might not even be interested in would be impossible in 2 sessions and have them present that script on the 3rd session. We changed it so that the participants would be allowed to create their own scripts based on the ideas that we give them as the overall theme. This week was definitely very hectic, but successful in getting the assignments in on time. I just hope to add a bit more of my participation into our project in the weeks to come! See ya next week!
Johnson: This week went a little bit smoother in my opinion. All the planning went well because we changed the overall program planning sheet. The reason was we want to fit everything our volunteer had to say!! So a name change was a must, so say good bye to Dramatic Drama to The Dramatic Effect!! Also we had decided that giving them scripts was a bit hard. So we all decided to give them themes. Than the children can develop it to something they all like. The themes we all decided was something related to high school. Something that was a hit hard was we had to change 4 sessions to 3 sessions. Having us kicking down a subject that was fun, stage fighting. Thankfully the sessions was cut and we didn't have to do that. Because our group decided it could be a bit dangerous and scary for them. All because of one reason, their trust among each other wasn't as strong as Kavin and I. Well Kavin and I should have been asking each other to make sure our schedule would fit that amount of sessions we wanted in the first place.
WEEK 2
Johnson: This week went well. All the planning we did was finalized. We finalized the age group that we are running the program with; eight year olds and older. Also Randy told us the location of where we are running our program; Charles Dickens Elementary School. I am really happy we got to know all of these two week in advance. We also talked about how many children we can have; 8-10 people. A little smaller than expected, I was hoping there was more people would take our program. Our program would happen
on Wednesday twenty nine of June, fifth of August and the twelve of August. And good news everyone!!! The children who is into drama has to sign up!!! That means no one would be left out because everyone who picked like drama!!! Yes!!! We made a poster and it looked nice! The poster had all the information about our sessions on them. Week 2 definitely went really smooth. Hoping next week would go well!!
Kavin: Week one was quite hectic for myself.. Especially with having summer school in the afternoon, it made it very difficult for me to help Johnson with planning and completing the homework for Randy. During our first session with Randy, it was surprisingly quite short because Johnson took the initiative to finish up the homework that Randy had ask us to do for that week (Thanks!!) We talked about picking the dates and times for our sessions, and talked about what the staff would be doing during our program session. Our first meeting with our volunteers on Friday July 10th was also quite progressive. We discussed about the progress that we had so far since the first week the Summer Youth Projects started. We made a big change with our title of our project! (From Dramatic Drama to The Dramatic Effect) We also had to make changes to our program plan because we realized together that making the participants memorize a script that they might not even be interested in would be impossible in 2 sessions and have them present that script on the 3rd session. We changed it so that the participants would be allowed to create their own scripts based on the ideas that we give them as the overall theme. This week was definitely very hectic, but successful in getting the assignments in on time. I just hope to add a bit more of my participation into our project in the weeks to come! See ya next week!
Johnson: This week went a little bit smoother in my opinion. All the planning went well because we changed the overall program planning sheet. The reason was we want to fit everything our volunteer had to say!! So a name change was a must, so say good bye to Dramatic Drama to The Dramatic Effect!! Also we had decided that giving them scripts was a bit hard. So we all decided to give them themes. Than the children can develop it to something they all like. The themes we all decided was something related to high school. Something that was a hit hard was we had to change 4 sessions to 3 sessions. Having us kicking down a subject that was fun, stage fighting. Thankfully the sessions was cut and we didn't have to do that. Because our group decided it could be a bit dangerous and scary for them. All because of one reason, their trust among each other wasn't as strong as Kavin and I. Well Kavin and I should have been asking each other to make sure our schedule would fit that amount of sessions we wanted in the first place.
WEEK 2
Johnson: This week went well. All the planning we did was finalized. We finalized the age group that we are running the program with; eight year olds and older. Also Randy told us the location of where we are running our program; Charles Dickens Elementary School. I am really happy we got to know all of these two week in advance. We also talked about how many children we can have; 8-10 people. A little smaller than expected, I was hoping there was more people would take our program. Our program would happen
on Wednesday twenty nine of June, fifth of August and the twelve of August. And good news everyone!!! The children who is into drama has to sign up!!! That means no one would be left out because everyone who picked like drama!!! Yes!!! We made a poster and it looked nice! The poster had all the information about our sessions on them. Week 2 definitely went really smooth. Hoping next week would go well!!