Memphis Youth Symphony Program

Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre Group

Harmonic South String Orchestra, Inc.

AngelStreet has an all girls community based choir that rehearses and performs around the city of Memphis. The girls rehearse weekly and participate in performances across the city. We perform at both private and public events, as well as host a community spring concert each year.They are able to increase vocal ability, develop confidence and courage through performances, and participate in unique experiences that give them the opportunity to form lasting relationships with caring adults that can impact beyond the AngelStreet experience.

Choir auditions begin in the Fall of each school year.

Online learning can be challenging. With students having so much screen time it can be hard to engage them fully through the long school day. These quick guided theatre exercises can be used to recharge students’ bodies, voices, and imaginations. Whether to jump-start a class period or infuse a brain break into the learning process, theatre games and warm-up activities can springboard engagement, joy, and collaboration with your students; creating an optimal environment for learning.

Video Tool able to be used at Educator's discretion

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlgiHcEhYUMHqFpsGC1NR7YzJGRRxVfuJ

https://orpheum-memphis.com/learn-engage/virtual-and-in-person-field-trips/

Shasta Blue, Manager of Education Administration

Virtual Student Matinee Series: A Kids' Play About Racism

A Kids Play About Racism is based on the book A Kids Book About Racism, by Jelani Memory, and is an online performance, geared for Grades K-5, that explains what racism is, how to know it when you see and experience it, and ideas for what you can do about it. The play was produced for the public at the beginning of August and received such a positive response that we wanted to share with our educator community. Getting access to our virtual student matinee is easy! Follow this link and fill out the form to bring A Kids Play About Racism into your classroom! We are thrilled to provide this program completely free of charge, made possible through the support of generous funders. We want to share how students are impacted by the work with our supporters. Please take a moment to share with us student quotes, art, and activities related to A Kids Play About Racism. Anything and everything will help us continue our programming. You can email your students’ reactions to us at education@orpheum-memphis.com with the words “AKPAR Student Reactions” in the subject. Educators who are interested in this play will receive an Active Educational Audience Guide with post-show activities and tools for Grades K-5. These tools will help facilitate and continue the conversation around racism in the classroom, provide tips on how to take action, and offer ideas for your own curriculum surrounding the topic of racism.

https://www.akidsplayabout.org/educators

https://orpheum-memphis.com/all-events/education/field-trips/a-kids-play-about-racism/

Shasta Blue, Manager of Education Administration

Broadway Basics Interactive Field Trip

These Interactive Field Trips introduce 3rd-12th grade students to music and movement from Broadway musicals. Interactive Field Trips build students' speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills and are a fun and engaging experience for all ability levels.

Now through May 21, 2020

This workshop can be in person OR virtual - meeting educators wherever they are!

Tennessee Fine Arts State Standards
D.P1.B Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation/performance/production.
D.P2.A Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for performance.
D.P3.A Express meaning through the performance of artistic work.
D.R1.A Perceive and analyze artistic work.
Tennessee English Language Arts State Standards
L.KL.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
L.VAU.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
RL.KID.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
SL.CC.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with varied partners, building on others’ ideas, and expressing one’s own ideas clearly and persuasively.
SL.CC.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.

Shasta Blue, Manager of Education Administration

ACTivating Emotions: Social-Emotional Learning, Literacy, and Theatre

How do we give students permission to feel? In a moment of unprecedented stress and anxiety, young people need tools to name, express, and regulate complex emotions and feelings. Actors are experts at using the tools of body, voice, and imagination to walk in a character's shoes and express emotions. Infusing literacy standards and texts currently being studied in your classroom, an OTG teaching artist will guide students through building an emotion vocabulary, telling stories to understand emotional responses, and standing in a characters’ shoes to imagine the causes behind feelings and reactions.

Now through May 21, 2021.

This can either be in person or virtual - meeting educators wherever they are!

Tennessee English Language Arts State Standards for Grades 3-5
FL.PWR.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text.
FL.VA.7a Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
RL.KID.1 Read closely to determine what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL.KID.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
SL.CC.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with varied partners, building on others’ ideas, and expressing one’s own ideas clearly and persuasively.
SL.CC.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
Tennessee English Language Arts State Standards for Grades 6-12
L.KL.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
L.VAU.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate.
RL.KID.1 Read closely to determine what a text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RL.KID.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
SL.CC.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with varied partners, building on others’ ideas, and expressing one’s own ideas clearly and persuasively.
SL.CC.3 Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.

Shasta Blue, Manager of Education Administration