Arts in the Schools

My goal for organizing this opportunity is to ensure that every student from Montevideo High School has had at least one high quality, entertaining, professional live theater experience before graduating, with hopes of creating theater lovers and future audiences for theater in our state. AP English: Students will write personal responses evaluating the experience, relating the experience to their initial visions of the play and its themes. They will also write AP style essays in preparation for the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Exam in May at a passable level. English 12: Students will use information from the experience to add to their "genre and convention" worksheets (Shakespearean Comedy"). 1) Students will see professional theater, many for the first time. In the evaluation survey, I will collect data on the number of students who see professional theater for the first time, the number of students who would attend a theater event in the future, etc., and I will solicit personal reviews to include in the community involvement piece. 2) I will hold informal conversations with students on the bus ride home, in school the next day, and thereafter to elicit personal responses to having seen professional theater and encourage them to become lifelong theater attendees. Further, I will encourage my colleagues to ask the seniors about their field trip experience (in classes other than English).