Disco Lives

The band is progressing. Concert next week.

Winter 2014-15

Probable Winter Concert repertoire.

SHS Band

1. Star Spangled Banner………………………………...………..arr Michael Sweeney
2. Disco Lives………………………………………………………….…….arr. Johnnie Vinson
3. A Closer Walk With Thee………………………..…...adapted by Michael Brown
4. Ammerland……………………………………………………………………....Jacob de Haan
5. All About the Blues…………………………………………………………...…….Peter Blair

SHS Choir:

 1.    Adoramus Te…………………….………….…...Palestrina, arr. Russell Robinson

 2.    Ave Maria……………………………..………….....Arcadelt, arr. Russell Robinson

 3.    Homeward Bound……………………………….....Marta Keen, arr. Jay Althouse

4. One Note Samba………………………….……..A.C. Jobim, arr Roger Emerson
5. Afternoon on a Hill.................................................Neil Ginsberg

Annie Evaluation

Annie was a success

Yes	36	100%
No	0	0%

I learned a lot about myself and others by doing Annie

Yes	32	89%
No	4	11%

The best performance was

Thursday dress	0	0%
Friday	26	72%
Saturday	10	28% I now understand what it takes to put on a HS play. Yes 35 97% No 1 3% I think SHS should do a musical every year. Yes 35 97% No 1 3%

Backstory

We are doing Annie and I assigned everyone to write the backstory of their character.  Where were they born?  What makes them tick?  I hope to publish all of them on a bulletin board and put a few in the Playbill.

Kate came to the orphanage when she was four years old. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, had been higher middle class, and had died from the flu. Since Kate had no other family besides her baby sister, social services had no choice but to put Kate in Ms. Hannigan's home and her sister Carrie in a different home for younger children. Kate wants to be a journalist when she gets older, as well as be adopted and reunite with her sister. She also wants to live in the countryside.

Band

We have a few new additions to the SHS Band.  We added two flute players, a sax, trombone, percussion, and two clarinets.  We also have a beginner trumpet.


I was happy with our first day reading.  Now, we have a long way to go, but we READ the music.  We played the tune.

Google Classroom

I was able to get a preview of Google Classroom  and in the beta form it looks MUCH easier to work with than the old method of assigning folders.

When you can assign, comment, grade, and review all from one portal.  It shows who has turned in and all the normal google stuff is there.  It is basically on top of the Google Drive structure.

I wish it had more of a messaging capability and some of Edmodo's quiz and poll stuff.  I also wish we could get some iTunesU content involved.  Until then I think I need a melding of all three.

Model Assessments

Have you done the model assessments or something similar?  I do think this is an important area.  I imagine some districts use this.

It would be nice to have a system of sharing this data.