Dada Play Quarter 2

Assignment/Activity Title— Dada Play                                     Year— Freshman

Skill—Writing, creative, public performance                  Portfolio Category— Social Awareness

           

For drama this year, we had to use our creative minds to write a script for our own Dada performance. Dada is a type of art form, popular in the early 20^th century. With Dada, artists have the ability to make whatever kind of art they want to, using different images to create a scene that is not “normal”. Dada is a very creative art, and requires students to think outside of the box. We had to choose groups to work with, and I worked with Elizabeth Cove. We knew that we could work well together, and we both had great ideas to contribute. Our first goal was to research a topic that was controversial, or needed changing. Elizabeth and I looked at variety of problems, for example, bullying, gun violence, and problems with the environment. We researched these issues and brainstormed how we could incorporate our acting skills to

Interdisciplinary Quarter 1

Assignment/Activity Title— Interdisciplinary Project: The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era

Year— Freshman

Skill—Writing, research, group dynamics          Portfolio Category— Media and Communications

                 

For the first CAP interdisciplinary project, we had to work in groups to research a time period, create characters for a narrative, and do a number of pre-writings and scripts for the final presentation, where we would perform our narrative. The time period of focus was the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. We had one week, including one day for the presentation, to work on it diligently with our group of three or four classmates. In the end, my group of Leah Savage and Lucy Kelliher performed a successful narrative that we wrote ourselves. As a whole, my group and I were pretty stressed out in the last two days of working, but we managed to do well overall. After this first major project, I changed my work habits for