American Mosaic

Mosiac is a student outreach progam in partnership with the Chicago Public School system. Mosaic connects over 700 students with the script and production of Welcome to Arroyo's.

Kelvyn Park's Favorite Characters

Well, seing as everyone in my class was working on the play, I decided to walk around and ask some of my fellow classmates what their favorite characters from the play were and why. At first it didnt go out too well, no diversity y'know, but my pal Jorge changed that. WOO! GO Jorge!!
 
Q: What is your favorite character and why?
 
Lisa D: I like Molly because she's bad.
 
Yaritza M: I like Molly because she speaks what she feels, she speaks whats on her mind.   
 
Rosario R: I think Molly has an awesome attitude.
 
Jorge: I like TRIP and NELSON becuase they're radical.
 
In my personal opinion, I definitly agree with Jorge on that.
WOOOO!!!!!! Excellent choice Jorge, excellent choice. 

 

Roosevelt Represents

Right now, the set and graffiti group is looking at colors together.  Together they are deciding on what to do for Molly's tag, from the scene when Molly punches Derek Jeter in the face.  "We're happy," Joseph L., one of the tag artists said.  "We're doing good and working really hard," said Ivan R. from the Set and Graffiti Group.

It's amazing how our class has progressed.  Everyone is involved and not only working hard but having fun with it.  The Set and Graffiti Group plan on working on the tag, picking out how they want it and figuring out what colors they're gonna use - colors that they think best fit Molly's personality.  They said that Molly's not too girly or too boy-ish.  So they think she's a tom-boy.  They think blue is a good color.  Joseph said, "I think this is a good idea!" and his group agreed.  All of them are on it.
 
From the Music and Sound Group:
"We're picking cues for each scene."
-Priscilla P.
 
From the Costume Design Group:
"We're doing pretty good and trying to get some more ideas out."
-Laureano R.

"We're trying to do the best designs."
-Edgar R.
 
-Salena M., Blogger
8th Period

Announcements from Amundsen

Well, for us at Amundsen high school 1st per. we have people working on everything -- we’ve made groups, so we get things done faster. Actors are in the hall while backstage crew is in the room working with their design teams.  Melvin is tagging our ensemble name BME (Big Money Entertainment)on to a paper for the play. Stephanie and Lily are working costumes. Propose is getting their music together.  Me, as you could have guessed already, I’m recording the process of the class.

–Julio, 1st period

 

Our music crew are talking about the music for our scene – they’re trying to look for hip-hop music and trying to choose from their list.  The set group are going to the library to get pictures of things they’ll need and the light crew are talking about when the lights need to change in our scene and why by looking at the script.  They’re drawing tables, seats, etc. for the sketch of the set.  Costumes are cutting out pictures of good costumes.  Michael, from the music crew, is going to breakdance with the hip hop music (Big City Lights).  He doesn’t use power moves, but it should still be cool.

–Desiree, 3rd period

Roosevelt Rolls Along

April 26, 2010

Today, I was in a group with the characters Al, Molly and Nelson.  They were planning out the characters music, deciding which song is right for each of their characters.  I heard them make a lot of comments about their songs, such as Al (played by Ricardo P.), his choice would be "Simple Man" originally by Lynyrd Skynyrd- it's a very good choice because he said Al is an uptight person, he's protective of Molly.  Molly (played by Jessica G.) was next but didn't pick a song yet, they started suggesting rock songs because she's hardcore or something hip hop because of Reina Ray and where she grew up.  Nelson (played by Jose R) picked the song "Over" by Drake and he chose that song because Trip and Nelson are hip hop artists, they love music, and they are DJ's- they want to do something in life with music.


April 27, 2010

Today I watched the groups- Sound designers, Costume designers, Set/Prop designers, Graffiti Artists.  When I talked to the Sound group they came up with pretty good music from the '90's.  When asked for comments they all agreed things would go perfect, saying it's a good story and they can now see how music interacts in the play.  The Costume designers both agreed that it is pretty fun but it's also hard to find specific clothing for each character.  The Set/Prop designers said it was pretty hard to find the exact props but mainly fun because they get to choose what designs to use.  The Graffiti Artists had strong comments on why they like graffiti- because it's easy and it's everyday life to be tagging.  They think it's a good story and that it's very interesting.

-Ashley P.

7th period

Kelvyn Park Drops a Bomb

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Student designs for Molly's tag on the police department back wall. 

News form Mr. Tuggle's Class
Groups actually work together without having a quarrel.  Talking and passing ideas around the table to figure out one great decision.  The design group seems to be eager to mess around with their thoughts.  The music group has many mixed and crazy beats but need to expand.

- Benjamin M.

News from Mr. Higgin's class:
For the past few days we have been in the auditorium.  The class was divided into two groups.  One is the production and the other is performance.  Both groups are doing their best on making the play as perfect as possible.  We still have a couple of days here.  If we keep this up, we are going to do great.  This project is never goin to go away form our heads.

-Erik G. and Jose P.

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Shannon and Jose present costume designs

Photo by: Erik Gonzalez

Roosevelt Rises Up

Today our group (Performance) went over the script.  Our group did pretty good today!  We need to work on everybody getting here (coming to class).  But other than that, learning the lines is going pretty good.  Over the two weeks that we have been working on this, our group has shown lots of progress, which is great because that's what we need!  Me and my classmates didn't know we would be in this.  But since we started, it seems like everyone has been enjoying it.  We all look forward to practicing and doing this.  Timo and Amanda make things a lot of fun.  They're really nice and funny people.  And I love the way they act and read the script.  Especially when they rapped.  But.  Yeah.  It's a lot of fun and an easy grade- so why not?
 
-Salena M.
8th Period

Kelvyn Park Keeps it Real

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Kelvyn Park is hard at work!
 
Check out what Mr. Higgins 6th period is saying about their experience!
 
"I think this is an awesome project, I am a stage manager, and I am learning about culture and hip-hop."
-Somaira
 
"I am playing the character Lelly, this week I have been practicing my lines and I'm learning how to add more emotion and frequency to my character."
-Janella
 
"I have been designing the bar, I think the play and  being set designer is pretty cool."
-Lizbeth
 
"I have been drawing the kitchen.I am thinking about putting the sink on the right side.I am excited to design the kitchen because it's one of the main scene. I learned that design affects how the character reacts on a scene."
-Reyna 
 
"I have been designing the bar along with Lizbeth. I think this project is the best way to put my point across in design. I am learning how to get my ideas on paper to become real."
-Vanessa
 
"I have been fooling around but for some reason my personality goes with my character, Trip. I am learning how to connect to my character and how to improve my acting."
-Mireya
 
"I am hearing songs and trying to find good downloads."
-Edgar
 

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Clemente Cries Out

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"So far, for us the design team, we have been working on lighting and stage set up. On stage set up it wasn't really exciting, but it was productive for our class and skills. The lighting section was pretty cool. Our instructor (Terracne)  showed us how we can create an illusion of police lights moving. The project so far has been exciting. It certainly would probably continue getting better. I can't wait." 
-Fabian G.  

Tight Testimonials!

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Adrian E. works on a tag.

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Teaching artist, Aaron Henrickson works with Sammy J. and Beatriz D.

 

The students at Kelvyn Park are hard at work rehearsing and producing their scenes from Welcome to Arroyo's.

 Check out what they have to say:

"I have half my lines memorized"

-Crystal B.

 

"The Music gets you in the mood for fun."

-Sound Design Team

 

"I like it cuz of graffiti. I get to show people what I got."

-Luis A.