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The film is around 1:00 at the Harvard Exit on
Broadway on Seattle's Capitol Hill... we are
going out
for tapas afterwards... about 11 socios... our
smallest, most relaxed event is the chapter annual
film festival outing. Be there or be square.
Contact
Edu Tobar if you want a ticket or two,
etobar@ospi.wednet.edu.
II. WAFLT ONLINE NEWSLETTER AVAILABLE TOO
If you know of someone at your school who's a
WAFLT
member, but not a member of our egroup and might
like
to be, please have them email me to this effect
at
myanna@raincity.com.
Thanks!
Myanna Gregory
WAFLT Correspondance Secretary
III. TPRS STORYTELLING WORKSHOP:
Melinda Forward, Inc.
Summer 2001 TPR STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS
Come get great ideas at these exciting workshops!
Join the fun and excitement!!!
Come see how you can teach your students:
Long-term language
internalization
Grammar without
frustration
Fluency through
stories
A sense of humor
in a foreign language
Real-life language
skills
High-interest
material to ALL students
TPR Storytelling meets the needs of ALL skills
for ALL
students at ALL levels!!!
Learn how to keep your kids coming back year
after
year!!!
Fort Worth, Texas July
18 - 20
Brighton, Michigan July
30 - August 1
Grand Rapids, Michigan
August 6 - 8
Seattle, Washington August
16 - 18
Day One: The Science of TPR Storytelling
Learn the basic steps of TPRS and how it works
from a
student and teacher
perspective. This beginning workshop will
teach you
all you need to know to
apply TPRS to your personal teaching situation.
Hands-on lesson planning
will prepare you to teach a lesson to your own
classes!! Come learn some
NORWEGIAN and experience the power of TPR Storytelling
for yourself!!! If
you have attended this workshop before, come
back for
a new set of Norwegian
words and a new story!!!
Day Two: The Art of TPR Storytelling
See how TPRS applies to intermediate and advanced
classes while keeping TPR
interesting year after year. A sample lesson
will
show TPRS in action
teaching the past tense in Norwegian. Topics
include:
advanced play,
teaching advanced grammar, teaching tenses with
TPR,
and extension
activities for a TPRS classroom.
Day Three: Beyond TPR Storytelling
Go beyond TPRS with ideas for teaching grammar
with
the Verb Timeline,
organizing your classroom, managing your classroom,
evaluating, grading,
applying TPRS to a text, and creating brain friendly
instruction.
For more information contact:
Melinda Forward
phone/fax (866) 750-1181
mforward@eaze.net
www.melindaforward.com
About the Presenter
Since 1995, Melinda Forward has been training
teachers
nationwide in all
aspects of TPR Storytelling, and Organizing and
Managing a Language
Classroom. Her classroom experience includes
elementary, junior high, high
school, university, and adult education levels
in
Michigan and Texas. The
author of several TPR Storytelling books and
a first
year TPRS series for
secondary grades, Melinda is also the author
of the
French Verb Timeline
which is a tool used to teach French grammar
visually.
Dedicated to the
development of teacher-friendly materials and
inspiring workshops, Melinda
continues to train teachers and develop foreign
language materials while
living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Conference Fees
All workshops include extensive handouts, refreshments
and lunch.
April 20th 21 Day Advance
On-site
One day $139
$179
$199
Two days $239
$279
$309
Three days $299
$339
$369
SPACE IS LIMITED! REGISTER EARLY!
Special discounts: (one discount per participant)
10% discount for groups of three or more teachers!
10 % discount for returning participants who
have
previously attended a two or three day workshop!
30% discount for student teachers!
Limited Scholarships available.
All workshops are scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to
3:00
p.m.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
Curriculum and other materials will be available
for
preview and purchase.
University Credit Available!
What did teachers have to say about Melinda's
2000
summer workshops?
"I am excited about introducing this
to my
students. I feel I will have
more energy at the end of my teaching day and
will
move out of my comfort
zone into the 'fun zone.'"
Sandra Paxton -
Anchorage, AK
"Can't wait to try it! Thank you!!"
Jennifer
Marglin - Walla Walla, WA
"I feel full of energy and new ideas."
Anne-Marie
Canis - Seattle, WA
"I am anxious to start the school year and
start the
process of
implementing TPRS. This is one of the best
workshops
I've ever attended!
Thanks Melinda! Your enthusiasm is a delight."
Stacy Massey - Traverse City, MI
"Loved it before, love it still!"
Gala Daftary
- Slidell, LA
Summer 2001 Registration Information
Two ways to register fast!!
1) BY MAIL
Detach
this registration form and mail payment
or a purchase order to:
Melinda Forward, Inc.
PO Box 21847
Albuquerque, NM 87154-1847
2) BY FAX
Purchase
Orders may be faxed to: (866)
750-1181
Please
make payments payable to: Melinda
Forward.
Terms:
To be eligible for early registration discounts,
registrations must be postmarked by the deadlines
listed.
All workshop registrations are transferrable,
substitutions may be made at any time.
Cancellation of an accepted registration may
be made
up to 30 days prior to the workshop.
Registrants canceling after that date are responsible
for the entire registration fee.
It is expected that all purchased orders will
be paid
in full within 30 days of workshop date.
All late Purchase Order payments are subject
to a 5%
monthly late fee.
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Summer 2001 Workshops
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___Fort Worth, TX
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Before the workshop, a letter of confirmation
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sent with details about the workshop location.
All dates and locations subject to change and
cancellation
2001 Summer Workshop Sites and Hotel Information
July 18 - 20
Courtyard by Marriott
3150 Riverfront Dr
Fort Worth, TX
817-335-1300
July 30 - August 1
Brighton High School
7878 Brighton Road
Brighton, Michigan 48116
810-229-5366
local hotels:
Courtyard by Marriott 810-225-9200
Holiday Inn Express
810-225-4300
August 6 - 8
East Grand Rapids Middle School
2425 Lake Drive S.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
616-235-7551
local hotel:
Days Inn - Downtown
616-235-7611
August 16 - 18
Holiday Inn - SEA-TAC International Airport
17338 International Blvd
Sea-TAC, WA 98188
206-248-1000
When making room reservations, mention that you
are
attending my workshop.
Groups rates have been established with most
hotels.
Would you like to be on my mailing list?
Just send an email to mforward@eaze.net and I'll
be
sure to send you updates on upcoming materials
and
workshops!!!
IV. NY TIMES ARTICLE: Mexico City Journal:
Pummeling
the Powerful, With Comedy as Cudgel
June 15, 2001
By TIM WEINER
Sergio Dorantes for The New York Times
Jesusa Rodríguez impersonating Martha
Sahagún,
President Vicente Fox's spokeswoman. Mexico's
elite
has never had it so bad.
MEXICO CITY, June 14 — When Jesusa Rodríguez
is on —
onstage, on camera, in the streets protesting
the
latest outrage — she may be the most powerful
woman in
Mexico.
She has embodied power night after night, for
20 years
running, playing Jesus, the Devil, Hitler, the
president of Mexico, the painter Frida Kahlo,
an array
of saints and sinners, hundreds of roles in hundreds
of plays she has written and directed. And every
night
she is on she provokes the kind of laughter that
serves as a deadly weapon against her declared
enemies: the rich, the powerful and the sanctimonious.
"I have to do this," she said backstage at the
Mexico
City cabaret she runs, El Hábito. "I have
to. I have a
job, which is living at the limits, expanding
my mind.
I need theater, opera, painting, cabaret, human
intelligence, justice and liberty."
She is, as a theme song of hers says, "an inconvenient
woman — or so the president told me." It goes
on,
"I'll never be named ambassador, since I never
wear
high heels — and anyway, diplomacy's not my strong
suit."
Flaying Mexico's elite is. Every work, every play
of
hers is a kick aimed at the seat of power.
She turned up on a television talk show the other
day,
impersonating Mr. Fox's culturally conservative
labor
minister, Carlos Abascal, wearing a pretty pink
suit,
a moustache and a beard, mouthing macho platitudes.
She led street protests when the richest man
in
Mexico, Carlos Slim, wanted to build a shopping
mall
next to the capital's oldest archeological site,
warning that Mexico's two most sacred ruins would
be
the next to go.
"What do you want to do — turn Chichén
Itzá into a
sushi parlor?" she shouted. "Sell TelePizzas
at
Teotihuacán?"
At El Hábito these days she is portraying
President
Vicente Fox's press secretary and sweetheart,
Martha
Sahagún, in a devastating sendup of the
new power
brokers of Mexico. The show is called "Mass at
Los
Pinos," the presidential mansion, where in Ms.
Rodríguez's twisted vision Coca-Cola is
holy water,
slim stacks of United States dollars are holy
wafers,
politicians rule through Prozac-fueled delusions
and
all that is sacred is profaned.
When the sclerotic old regime that ran the country
for
71 years lost the presidency to Mr. Fox last
year, it
might have been the sort of creative problem
for Ms.
Rodríguez that the end of the cold war
posed for John
le Carré.
"It was difficult for me at first," she said.
"Depressing." But the old regime and the new
are
pretty much Pepsi and Coke in her eyes, both
offering
people thirsty for justice "democracy lite,"
as the
new play says.
"I realized the new government was the same, just
worse," she said. "Same economic ambitions, but
different ideology — more dangerous, with this
perverse mix of religion and merchandising, this
mystical attraction to money and power."
And so the show went on.
Ms. Rodríguez is part of a tradition in
Mexico City
that reaches back almost a century, to the tent
shows,
known as teatro de carpa, and the political cabarets
that served as a kind of living newspaper, written
in
the language of parody — endless puns and wordplay,
savage caricatures and satirical songs.
In her youth, in the 1950's and 60's, that tradition
all but disappeared, folding under pressures
that
included the government's subtle censorship of
politically deviant art and its sponsorship of
creative artists who would work within acceptable
limits. But in the early 1980's, Ms. Rodríguez
and her
lifelong partner and creative collaborator, Liliana
Felipe, began to revive it and to test those
boundaries.
They became part of a generation of Latin American
women working, whether onstage, in the streets
or
writing alone in a room, against the men who
ran
things in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina,
Chile,
Cuba and other countries. Many are gathering
this week
in Monterrey, Mexico, for a 10-day conference,
led by
the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and
Politics
of New York University, called "Memory, Atrocity
and
Resistance." Ms. Rodríguez and Ms. Felipe
will be
headlining Saturday night with what they call
their
"Uncomfortable Cabaret"— entertainment made from
anger
and laughter.
Recognition like this has come slowly and sparsely
but
Ms. Rodríguez seems not to care for money
and prizes.
"I knew I had to retake and reinvent what was
lost
when teatro de carpa disappeared," she said.
"So I
started in cabaret, doing Shakespeare, and that
is the
mother of performance art."
She mounted Mozart in drag; "Donna Giovanni,"
or "Don
Giovanna," usually performed with an all-woman
cast,
played New York in 1987. Reviewing the work for
The
New York Times, John Rockwell called it a "sexy,
brilliant and illuminating feminist revision
of the
opera" and praised its "raw, communicative,
instinctual theatricality."
Ms. Rodríguez and Ms. Felipe returned to
New York last
year, staging an off-Broadway production of their
play
"Las Horas de Belén," which received an
Obie award.
Belén, now long razed, was a church sanctuary
for poor
unmarried women who lived out their days in enforced
servitude; the building later became a prison
pure and
simple.
El Hábito, which opened in 1990, is an
antiprison — an
anything-goes carnival, decked with eight-by-ten
glossies of faded Mexican stars. The shows change
with
the news; "A Mass at Los Pinos" savagely cuts
up Mr.
Fox's past life as Mexico's leading Coca-Cola
executive and what it calls "the coca-colafication"
of
Mexico's culture.
Ms. Rodríguez, as the adoring presidential
press
secretary, looks as if she were a drag queen
playing
Carol Burnett playing Marie Antoinette. When
Mexico's
poor, unseen offstage, protest Mr. Fox's plan
to tax
food and medicine, she suggests shipping them
"happy
boxes," a fast- food grab bag — an unveiled reference
to a still-unrealized Fox plan to give simple
survival
kits to migrants trying to sneak into the United
States. "Then you can die in the desert with
a nice
taste in your mouth," she natters.
This work literally comes from the gut. Ms. Rodríguez
says she draws from the cosmology of people who
lived
here before the Spanish conquerors, the Nahuatl.
They
thought the seat of the soul was in the liver,
but
that the soul of another person, the essence,
could be
stolen by someone else in a mask or disguise.
Thus, she says, she robs the people she portrays
of
their thoughts and experiences, inhabiting them
onstage. This is doubtless disquieting to the
people
whose souls are being stolen, and it tests the
limits
of taste and propriety, but it makes for good
theater.
"My experience," she said, "is that limits do
not
exist." And there may be no limit in Mexico to
the raw
material for her work, the daily passion plays
of
power and poverty, and the anger she channels
into
creativity.
"Something worse," she said optimistically, "will
always come along."
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Steven Green, President, sslgrn@aol.com
Ricardo Chama, Eastern V.P., cheetah101@earthlink.net
Paloma Borreguero, NW V.P., paloma@u.washington.edu
Oriana Cadman, SW V.P., ocadman@kalama.com
Jay Adams-Feuer, Secretary, jay@alumni.middlebury.edu
Alexandra Porter, Treasurer, dporter@universityprep.org
WATSP web page: http://aatsp.20m.com