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Last Thursday, February 24, I took a group of 7th graders to Food & Friends for our service learning work.  It is always amazing to see the kids out of their normal element and interacting with the larger world.  The students were asked to write sample fund-raising letters requesting support for Food & Friends.  They [...]

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We added sound tonight! That means the band is in, and we’ve starting mic’ing up the actors. Sound check took a while (around 90minutes!) but we’ve been running the show from the top and things are sounding great! We’ll get through Act I and Act II tonight, and then do Act III tomorrow, as well [...]

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You read it right, it’s 11:51am and we’re just about 2 hours in to rehearsal for “The Boy Friend” at Burke! Today we’re starting with something called the Costume Parade. This is when the director gets to see all the actors in each scene in costume together. The costume designer and crew are hard at [...]

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In order to not bury the lede… if you haven’t already, make sure you go see Touch, a funny, poignant, and well, touching, play produced by The No Rules Theater Company.  This is its last week at the H Street Playhouse. It’s a portrait of what it takes to rebuild your life in the wake [...]

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Middle School thespians did a great job in the play this past weekend. There was music, dancing, singing along with some fabulous acting. Obviously, our students had worked very hard to produce the play and their work was terrific. Congratulations to all our actors and stage technicians! The pictures are in the Media Gallery on [...]

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This is a scene from Star Wars Episode III, presented in Quenya (the Elvish dialect I teach during lunch periods). Visible are Jacob Bernhardt, Allie Segal, Noah Gladstein, and Nick Connolly.

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[Click to read earlier Chapters of Losing the Bronze] 11 The story so far… Jerzy Kocerka is a retired Polish boxer and WWII veteran living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in the mid-1990s. Though Jerzy and his son don’t get along anymore, his grandson and namesake, Jersey, practically worships him, partly to get back at his own [...]

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Our bodies are a constantly operating factory, continually processing the food we eat, breaking it down into its useful constituents, and getting rid of the waste.  There are many moving parts to this efficient machine, and the food we eat travels through clearly defined stages.  Initially, food is chewed and partially digested by saliva in [...]

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This past November, 7th grade science students created fantastic science expo projects. The students posed questions subject to experimental testing, such as “Do dairy foods affect speech?” and “Are dogs affected by music?”  The students came up with the questions, then progressed from these initial seeds through development of experiments, conduct of experiments, and presentation [...]

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I’ve gone back to high school and it’s not nearly as traumatic as I remember it the first time around! Theatre was an important part of my personal development as a young adult, and my high school drama experiences turned me toward a rewarding life in the arts; I am always eager to pass on [...]

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It Doesn’t Feel Like Christmas from the incredible Sam Phillips from her Xmas EP Cold Dark Night.  More about Sam Phillips later. Burke.Word hopes it’s feeling like the holidays for you!  

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