School started back up today! What a bitter-sweet occasion this is seeing as we have had such a great summer together. Every summer I feel blessed that I am able to spend such significant chunks of time with my family. That being said, I am very excited about my year and my schedule. I wanted to capture it here so we could look back and see what I was teaching in a couple of years (hopefully this internet thing sticks).

    1. Broadcasting: Knights Knews is back for a third year. This class has been a pet project of mine for two years now and any teacher worth his/her salt will tell you that it takes three years for any class that you are writing/developing to take off. This has been true for Knights Knews - and I look forward to this year's crop (and will miss the previous year's production team - I know you are reading!)

    2. Acting Improv: Appearing for the second time - this class culminates in a free evening of improv for our student body. The first incarnation, called "No Sheep Allowed" drew an audience of 75 people on a Friday night for some improv goodness. I look forward to this section's potential.

    3. Studio Honors (ACT 1): I am team-teaching this one with my boss and will be directing the students in an original play (again by my boss) called So Help Me God. I am really excited about this new component of my work life. We are prepping this show for the CCS stage in the middle of October and for competition at NCTC in November. This class will do much more but this is the gist of it.

    4. Introduction to Film Studies: This class has been with me since 2006 and I am doing my best to change it little by little. It is a fun little jaunt through the history of film, roles in film-making, and the film-making process. I get paid to introduce the students to movies that they should see in order to make them more rounded students. E-mail me if you'd like the list.

    5. A.C.T. 2 (Authentic Christian Theatre): The middle school version of class number three up there. We are doing a ton in there. Two shows: Drop Dead, Juliet and Mill Girls for competition in March and a 15 minute cutting of Godspell for a trip to Atlanta in January. Mixed in there is the Shakespeare recitation festival and a couple of other things.

    6. Directing You Can't Take it With You: This show goes up in May and I am excited to be doing my first ever dinner theater. It should be a really fun process but I can't really think about it right now.

Believe it or not, this is actually the least amount of stuff that I have been assigned in 3 years at the school. I am really excited about this schedule and look forward to what God is going to do in and among my students and myself.