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SEMINARS: High School 2009-2010 Chamber Singers Costume Design In Costume Design the students learn many of the fundamental ideas behind visual design. The course begins with a brief history of modern fashion, ranging from the Elizabethan era to present day. We look at classic costume images and examine how these images create or support a narrative. Each semester, the students read a play, learning to glean important information about characters that will inform their individual designs. The students then learn how to do visual research, gathering images that articulate their vision for the play. The goal of this course is to help the students develop a visual vocabulary for expressing ideas about drama, film, and dance. Previous plays examined: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Doll’s House. Egyptian Hieroglyphs This course continues the material covered in the past year. Students will continue to work through the later lessons in Gardiner’s Egyptian Grammar, 3rd ed. At the same time, they will begin to read selections from classical Middle Egyptian literature, beginning with The Shipwrecked Sailor, The Tale of Sinuhe, and excerpts from The Book of the Dead. Poetry Seminar This is a once-a-week course for middle and high school students interested in writing poetry. Students encounter an array of poetry and poetic ideas, and they work on weekly assignments to explore these ideas in their own work. In addition to reading the work of established poets, the students share their work with one another, learning how to think about and critique their own poems and those of their peers. Assignments focus on various poetic elements and modes of construction, ranging from couplets to sestinas. |
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