That is the question.
I took a job where musicals were a yearly tradition and didn't do a musical...
In my defense I was a first year teacher teaching 10 classes
- 2 4th Grade General Music Classes
- 5th Grade Band
- 6th Grade Band
- Jr High Choir
- Jr High Band
- High School Concert Band
- High School Jazz Band
- High School Choir
- High School Audition Choir
Year Two
I might have worked out a way to pull off a musical this year.
In the past the used to have only one choir at the High School. Then the year before I got there the teacher split the choir into a General Choir and an Audition Choir.
See the Problem Yet?
With two seperate classes rehersals have to take place after school unless you could some how perfectly cast the scenes by class. Not happening.
You may say well then do after school rehersals thats not so bad. Well it is when over half of the studnets in the school are also the star athletes in the school.
So you have sports practices then play practice when do students do homework or sleep?
Short Answer? They don't
Not enough anyway. Teachers complained of studnets falling asleep in class and class work serverly lagging.
I could go on but I will suffice it to say that this pattern doesn't work, at least not in my district.
FFwd to this year.
We still have two seperate choirs. Audition and General Choir but....
The Audition Choir meets in a zero hour before school time slot and...
Everyone in Auditon Choir is required to be in the General Choir as well. This means that everyone is - back in one class - at the same time - during school.
Problem Solved?
Does this allow me to teach 10 classes and yet add a Musical back into the "tradition"?
Stay tuned and well find out together this year. :)
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