Alexander Elementary/Liberty Technology Magnet High School Black History Month Collaboration: “The Magic School Bus Flash Back Through Time” A Black History Program February 24, 2012

FIRST MEETING LIBERTY STUDENTS MET THEIR CAST FOR THE FIRST TIME, SHARED SCRIPTS, AND REHEARSED LINES WITH EACH STUDENT.

CHARACTER ACTING, SCRIPT WRITING, AND SCENE COMPREHENSION STANDARDS Students were assigned to do research on specific A.A black history figures. With the research, students created scripts to share with Alexander students.

CHARACTER ACTING, SCRIPT WRITING, AND SCENE COMPREHENSION STANDARDS Liberty students demonstrated characterization by showing students how to act and move like their Black history figure.

DIRECTING Student directors practiced lines with their partner during each visit to Alexander.

DIRECTING Liberty students practiced transitions, pacing, and speech presentation with each student.

DIRECTING Liberty students coached Alexander students on maintaining focus, staying on task, and team work.

SCENE DESIGN & SCENE COMPREHENSION Liberty students created all props and costumes to add visual effects for the audience.

SCENE DESIGN & SCENE COMPREHENSION All props and costumes set the time period for each African American figure to portray their character.

CHARACTER ACTING, THEATRICAL PRESENTATION & CONTEXT Liberty students with Harriet Tubman, Crispus Attucks, Red Coat soldiers, and Benjamin Banneker

CHARACTER ACTING, THEATRICAL PRESENTATION & CONTEXT Liberty students with George Washington Carver, Madam C.J. Walker, and Frederick Douglass

CHARACTER ACTING, THEATRICAL PRESENTATION & CONTEXT Liberty students with Matthew Henson, Dr. Charles Richard Drew, and Garrett Morgan

CHARACTER ACTING, THEATRICAL PRESENTATION & CONTEXT Liberty students with Rosa Parks, a protester, Jackie Robinson, and Wilma Rudolph

CHARACTER ACTING, THEATRICAL PRESENTATION & CONTEXT Students, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the bus driver

CHARACTER ACTING Garrett Morgan with traffic signal and gas mask

CHARACTER ACTING AT A BUS STOP WITH CRISPUS ATTUCKS, RED COATS, AND STUDENTS ON THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS

CHARACTER ACTING & CONTEXT Students displayed the final presentation in a live performance complete with songs and reenactments.

PARTICIPATING THEATRE ARTS STUDENTS: Kelsea Anderson Natasha Cole Richard Dilbeck Brooke George Sharee McKinney Rachel Montgomery Sierra Robinson Alisha Pettigrew Tyler Robinson Annabeth Rose Brittany Stewart Kenny West

THEATRE ARTS STANDARDS… COMING TO LIFE! STUDENT REFLECTIONS…