Drama Class: Which Way to Hollywood?
January 26, 2016
The lights flash on, the stage is set, the play commences, and the students become characters. This is what happens in Stroudsburg High Schoolai??i??s drama classes.
ai???I like teaching drama because unlike any other courses in Stroudsburg High School, it allows you to express yourself and become another person during the day,ai??? said English teacher Ms. Jennifer Batt.
In Battai??i??s sixth and seventh period drama classes, students read plays, watch the movie adaptations and perform scenes from the plays. Students learn drama in the auditorium and in room C-121.
The plays that areAi??usuallyAi??performed each year are Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon, The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. Every Friday students participate in improvisation day, which forces them to break out of their comfort zones and let their creativity flow.
The Drama I class is scheduled during the first semester, while Drama II Is held during the second semester. Drama I prepares students for Drama 2, where students imitate a real life theater experience. Ai??
Every student who participates in Drama II proposes a one act play. During this process, auditions take place and one student is appointed student director while all other class members are assigned a character. Throughout the semester, the students learn the rehearsal process of real life theater and in May the students perform in front of a live audience. Ai??Ai??
ai???Anyone who would like to gain self confidence and public speaking, anyone who has fun playing charades, anyone willing to take risks should take drama,ai??? said Batt.
To sign up for Drama I, students would have to wait until spring, when they can choose ai???Drama 1ai??i?? as one of their electives for the fall. If students choose to take Drama II, they would have taken Drama 1 as a prerequisite. The stage is always welcome to newcomers interested in becoming thespians for Stroudsburg High School’s drama class.
![A Promax Super Jumbo boombox (2014.270.2.1a) used as a prop by the character Radio Raheem in the Spike Lee directed picture, Do the Right Thing. The boombox includes a dual audio casette tape deck, an equilizer section, radio dial, coloured light display, and a pair each of 8 subwoofers, midranges, and tweeters. There are sections of red, yellow, and green electical tape with black ink text on the sides and top of the player. There are also rectangular black, green, and yellow Public Enemy stickers adhered to both the PR and PL side of the player. On the lower back of the boombox is handwritten text in gold ink reading [BROOKLYN, NY / 3/17/90 / To Gene / RADIO RAHEEM LIVES / LOVE, Spike Lee / FIGHT THE POWER]. There is a metal handle attached to the top of the player, around which two braided bracelets (black-and-white 2014.270.2.1b, coloured 2014.270.2.1c) and multi-coloured printed cloth (2014.270.2.1d) have been tied. The rewind button on the PR tape deck has fallen off but is stored with the boombox (2014.270.2.1e). The boombox had an audio cassette in the PR deck that has been removed (2014.270.2.2), titled JAZZ CLUB / Vocal. The cassette is off-white with black text and is printed with track titles, manufacturing information, and serial number. Date: 1980s. Record ID: nmaahc_2014.270.2.](https://shsnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG-2612-1-475x309.jpg)
Mr. Batt • Jan 26, 2016 at 9:15 PM
Mrs. Batt is the coolest!