First Aid Class Starting...

I will be teaching this class to girls, ages 11-13 on Wednesday afternoons January-March 2013.

Please click on the tab above called First Aid + more to register and read a few more details.

Public Speaking Class Week 1

Hello Families,

I had a wonderfully fun time with your daughters at our first public speaking class. I hope the girls shared about the Greek orator Demosthenes of Athens and all the struggles he had as a youth preparing to one day become a great speaker.

I barely had time to say something about elocution but fear not, we will cover more of that at Week 2. 

The girls had the opportunity to discuss the meaning of Poise, Eye Contact, Locution/Elocution, and Persuasiveness. The girls also critiqued two youth on the dvd program who gave thier opening speeches.

On Tuesday the  18th (week 2)  the girls will need to be at my home right at 12:30 so they can begin giving their own Self-Introduction speeches. I will be recording the performances (I hope) and each girl will receive a dvd at the end of the 12 weeks.


Please help your daughters prepare. The more time spent practicing, the less time is spent looking down at the outlines while preforming.

Cooking Class for Girls...ages 10-12...Starting in September

I am offering a cooking/science with food/fun with food class for girls, ages 10-12, starting Monday, September 17th 2012.
Classes will meet for 2 hours 1:00pm to 3:00pm every 1st and 3rd Monday. (3rd week in September)
We will make recipe binders with lots of creativity, write recipes, share recipes, learning safety skills, cook, catapult, and learn a little science too.
Cost: $5

Dates and Subjects:

September 17th Veggies that change colors...how and why
Recipes to exchange and collect: veggie dishes and sauces
Science: potatoes and squashes
Cooking: pesto sauce, squash casserole?, fresh flour noodles.

October 1st  From Scratch
Recipes to collect: treat and desserts
Science: measurements and conversions/ baking soda-v- baking powder
Cooking: pancakes and syrup, cookies?

October 15th Comfort Foods?
Recipes to collect: grains, soups
Science: ph testing? work of recipe books, thickeners
Cooking: rice/veggie soup

November 5th Knead the Dough
Recipes to collect: doughs and mixes,
Science: gases and elasticity/ catapulting
Cooking: whole grain bread, sour dough mix

November 19th Foods that Medicate/Thanksgiving-Colonial
Recipes to collect: main dishes, miscellaneous
Science: tastes of the tongue
Cooking: raw vegetarian

No classes in December.

My daughter Mattia, age 11, will be my assistant and fellow student.

Public Speaking Is Fun....Class begins....Tuesday, September 11th 2012

If you're a girl between the age of 11 and 14 and you want to improve  your public speaking skills then this 12 week class is for you!

Register Here 

If you said yes then...

I'm ready to hold 12 weekly 1 1/2 hour classes on developing the ability to speak more comfortably and confidently the next time your called to give a talk at church or asked to stand and share your beliefs on a given subject.

This course will cover...

1st Week Sept. 11th: Delivery & Self-Introduction Speech Preparation/Overcome Obstacles-Demosthenes

2nd Week Sept. 18th: Self-Introduction Speeches/Practice Your Delivery-Patrick Henry

3rd Week Sept. 25th: Preparing a Narrative Speech/Be Yourself-Elizabeth I 

4th Week Oct. 2nd: Narrative Speech Polish/Find Your Humorous Voice-Will Rogers

5th Week Oct. 9th: Narrative Speeches/Make It a Story-Marie Curie

6th Week Oct. 16th: Preparing a Descriptive Speech/Use the Power of Three-Paul

7th Week Oct. 23rd: Descriptive Speech Polish/Build a Logical Case-Susan B. Anthony

8th Week Oct 30th: Descriptive Speeches/Paint Pictures in Words-Tecumseh

9th Week Nov. 6th: Preparing a Persuasive Speech/Focus on Your Audience-Gandhi

10th Week Nov. 13th: Persuasive Speech Polish/Share a Vision-Martin Luther King Jr.

11th Week Nov. 20th: Persuasive Speeches/Change Minds and Hearts-Mark Anthony/Call for Positive Action-Lincoln.
12th Week Nov. 27th: Last speeches and a pizza party.

The participants will learn:

To critique speeches that are prerecorded as part of the training for the four types of speeches they will be giving. Self-Introduction, Narrative, Descriptive and Persuasive. Give four speeches, receive evaluations from students in the class, discover skills used in great speeches given from history, and learn to develop and use an outline to give a speech.

The tools I'll be using are:

Speech Boot Camp by Andrew Pudewa

The Art of Public Speaking: Lessons from the Greatest Speeches in History
Surprise guest speakers

Each student will receive trainee materials.

The cost will be minimal.

Tuesdays

12:30-2:00pm

The end for now...

 Three weeks ago I finally learned what I think might be the reason for my tiredness. A vitamin D deficiency. I decided to cut things short by three meetings.  I'm not sure we are going to be able to get the video cleaned up because of the type of file it is. But I will burn it onto cd's and send it to everyone.

Belinda and I really enjoyed hosting this first encounter of Shakespeare with your children and our children too. We are considering training next summer for the Shakespeare Conquest.

We heard from a few of our children that they really want to do"the real thing" next year.

The Tempest might come...

We have about 5 weeks left before this class experience finishes. I and Belinda have learned a few good lessons the past three weeks. The kids decided they wanted to act out The Tempest. All lines. The next week we did a lot of cutting and more acting and last week we decided it has to be geared to little children which will be the majority of the audience and I don't want it to run longer then 30 minutes. So the kids voted and decided to rewrite the play to be performed in about 20 minutes and then they will talk about what they learned, show things they made, etc..

Again I'm not sure if we will make it to an actual play for families to view. It will all depend on how prepared we are.

What I have personally learned is that I don't think acting department is for me. I like the organizing and preparing the timeline events but the acting is so alien to me. I'm really glad to have Belinda helping me and showing me.

September 28th's class

We added history related to what was going on in London at the time of William Shakespeare to our time lines, did short monologues, discussed Act 2 of The Merchant of Venice, and did more acting which the kids really like doing. They were challenged with impromptu scripts trying to act alone and with a partner in a variety of situations.

For October 5th, We will discuss Act 3.  See ya then.  Our time line will focus on a couple items regarding the government.

Second week

We had a fun time with acting and using our bodies, but keeping our bodies and faces toward the audience.

We added family history to the time line and talked about the first Act of The Merchant of Venice. We also used the color coding technique that Belinda shared for the time line the first week.

More acting skills and notification by the participants if they watched , listened, or read any Shakespeare plays. before you knew it, 90 minutes passed in a flash.

This sounds a little boring and that is the case when you try to write four days after the fact. Sorry

First class, a nice success...

Nine youth attended our first day of Shakespeare this afternoon. Everything worked quite well. I am so happy to have Belinda helping me to make this a fun and educational encounter for the youth.

We held a getting to know you game that included the winning or losing of m&m's  as you answered the questions.

The kids did a fine job creating their personal time-lines covering the span of Williams life time.  We will use the binder each student received and the time-lines each week so do return with them every time.

A little impromptu acting, a short film of Shakespeare's famous plays as movies and as live theater.

Before we knew it the time was gone.  Wow. I enjoyed myself. I hope the kids will too.

ASSIGNMENT FOR the 21st:  Read the first act with all its scenes of The Merchant of Venice.

A 12 week outline for the Shakespeare class...subject to lots of changes as we feel inspired...

September14th:
Overview of Shakespeare's Professional Life,
25 minute video from the National Arts Foundation, (fun to see the clips of movies quoting lines)
Creating a Time-line,
Discussion of The Merchant of Venice using the Lambs or Usborne version or the equivalent. Not the actual play.
September 21st:
His Family
Begin The Merchant of Venice, the play ...
September 28th:
The City
Begin youth presentations
Week 4:
Government
Week 5:
World History during the life of Shakespeare
Week 6: 
Comedies, Tragedies, Histories
Week 7:
The Globe and building your own
Week 8:
Oh dear my notes are unclear
Week 9:
Famous of People of England
Week 10:
Play
Week 11:
Play
Week 12:
Production of the play

Hear ye, hear ye,

PALMS Jr. Presents

Shakespeare for Youth

an introductory experience for ages 10-14

Starting September 14^th through December 14^th

Wednesdays 1:30pm-3:00pm at Nickie's home

Mentored by Belinda and Nickie

Class size is limited to 10 students  Cost $10

Email Nickie at

veronnicaallen@gmail.com

This class is intended for youth who want to learn about the life and time of Shakespeare, who are willing to read, watch, or listen to the plays of Shakespeare, write, develop creative abilities, keep a time-line, and synergize with other youth to produce a Shakespearean play.

Changes are good...

I had to make a change with the direction of the Shakespeare class. I wasn't able to attend the LEMI training, however I am pressing forward with this desire to teach, share, and learn Shakespeare with youth ages 10-14.

I and Belinda B. will be mentoring a 1.5 hour weekly Shakespeare club starting after Labor Day. Our schedules with the special needs of our children must first be determined and then I will provide the day and time. We will hold the club in the afternoon just after 2 pmish.

I encourage those interested in participating in this event to start reading Charles and Mary Lamb's version of Shakespeare as it's a wise introduction before moving into the plays themselves.

I'm looking forward to this new learning experience. :)

Continuing my education...in preperation for the future...

I think it no coincidence that I received this email today. I'm bursting inside with excitement to be learning something I would never have thought possible for me to do. And now I can add to my learning by attending this  experience too. My good husband agrees that i should attend.
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This year the Utah Shakespeare Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary.  For half a century the festival has been bringing world-class live entertainment to Southern Utah and has become a summer destination for Bard-lovers from all over the globe.

This summer, we invite you to enhance your Shakespeare experience by attending inquisitive seminars and discussions by day that will shed additional light on the performance at night:

• Monday, July 18 - Midsummer Night's Dream   (more info)
• Tuesday, July 19 - Richard III                            (more info)
• Wednesday, July 20 - Romeo and Juliet           (more info)

Each day, the itinerary will include in-depth seminars and discussion from 9am-4pm (with breaks for meals) followed by the play at 8pm.

Attend one, two or all three days.  Seminars cost $120 per person per play ($310 for all three) and includes theater tickets.  Housing and meals are not included. The registration deadline is May 15.

For more information visit our website.

We hope to see you this summer!

George Wythe University

Shakespeare is Coming....

This conquest class will begin September 2011. For youth 12 and other.I may be one or two exceptions. Time will tell.
More to come...

LEMI Training

Crazy I know.  But you got to do what you feel moved upon to do and stop making excuses otherwise your children will be grown and gone and you'll realized what might have been.

So I'm taking the training for Shakespeare Conquest through LEMI in SLC on July 7-9.  I need to come prepared with The Merchant of Venice and the new book The Student Whisperer.