High School Musical
High School Musical
English SBA
Non-print/ Fiction
Name of student: ______
Class: ______
Teacher: Ms Chow Suk Yin
1) Pre-viewing activity:
i. Definition:
What is a musical/ musical theatre?
Look at the website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre
Can you write your own definition of a musical or musical theatre?
ii. Look for the meaning of the words below. They may help you understand the film more:
1. high school
2. musical audition
3. homeroom
4. detention
5. scholastic decathlon
6. Einsteinette
7. callback
8. composer
9. audience
10. D-day
iii. Understanding of the plot:
Put the events in each episode in the diagram below.
(Sentence strips are given to groups of 3-4 students. After re-arranging the strips, they need to compare their answers with the other group which has the same situation and then report their part of the story to the rest of the class.)
Remind the students to connect their stories with the following words:
At the beginning,Then,
Afterwards,
Unfortunately, (they have a problem)
To their surprise,
Finally, they solve the problem.
Luckily,
Scene 1
Troy and Gabriella get detention from Mrs Darbus.
Troy goes to a ski lodge for a New Year Eve Party.
Troy is fond of Gabriella but she soon leaves him.
Troy meets Gabriella again at East High.
Troy sings with Gabriella in a karaoke contest.
Scene 2
Mrs Darbus hears them and gives them a callback.Troy and Gabriella go to the musical audition.
Mrs Darbus does not allow them to sing in the audition.
They are too shy to sing in front of Mrs Darbus.
Troy and Gabriella help Kelsi and they sing her song.
Scene 3
Troy explains and apologizes to Gabriella.Gabriella is angry with Troy.
Chad and Taylor do not want their friend to sing in the musical.
They decide to sing in the callback.
They make Troy say something bad about Gabriella.
Chad and Taylor tell Troy what they have done.
Scene 4
On the D-day, Gabriella sends a code by computer so the basketball game cannot go on.They can sing in the callbacks.
Sharpay asks Mrs Darbus to change the date of the callbacks.
Troy and Gabriella cannot join the basketball competition and the decathlon.
Gabriella boils a dangerous chemical to stop the decathlon.
Sharpay does not want Troy and Gabriella to sing in the callbacks.
Scene 5
Troy tells Gabriella to look at him.Troy and Gabriella get the leading roles in the musical.
Troy and Gabriella are late for the callback.
Gabriella is too shy to sing in front of a lot of audience.
A lot of students go into the theatre to support Troy and Gabriella.
Mrs Darbus does not allow them to sing.
2. While- viewing
Before listening to the song, guess by looking at the name of the song:
1. what the song will be about?
SongsStart of Something New
Get'cha Head in the GameWhat I've Been Looking For
What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)
Stick to the Status Quo
When There Was Me and You
Bop to the Top
Breaking Free
We're All in This Together
After listening to the songs, try to explain the background of each of them:
2. who is (are) singing?
3. when
4. where
5. what is s/he doing? What are they doing?
6. why is s/he so excited/ upset/ nervous/ embarrassed/ annoyed etc?
7. what does the song tell you?
You can add in your comments to the following:
8. do you like the song/ dance/ music?
9. is the song (particular the meaning of the lyrics) appropriate/ suitable to the situation?
Write down your comment and then tell your group members your opinions. For example,
Content / Feeling of the singer / Your commentsTroy and Gabriella sing the song when they join the karaoke contest on New Year Eve. / At first, Gabriella is rather shy but later both Gabriella and Troy enjoy the singing very much. They like each other. / I the song because both Troy and Gabriella sing very well and sweetly.
I think the song is suitable and meaningful because it is the starting point of their new friendship
Content / Feeling of the singer / Your comments
Self-evaluation:
Did you do well in your mini-presentation?
Watch the video clip and learn the necessary skills for making the presentation.
http://www.hkedcity.net/article/project_sba_eng_present/main/
What are the main skills that you need to develop in presentation? Jot down the main points.
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What are the skills that you need to develop/ improve? Name two.
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Do you have any plan to improve these skills? What will you do? How often will you do it?
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Post viewing
a) Do you still remember the story? Let’s see if you can arrange the different parts in the correct order.
A / At that moment, Gabriella slips and accidentally spills her lunch all over Sharpay's shirt. Sharpay tells Ms. Darbus that Gabriella did it on purpose and tries to convince her that Troy and Gabriella are trying to destroy the musical.B / After feeling guilty about ruining Troy and Gabriella's friendship, and noticing that they are no longer interested in the basketball game or the decathlon, Chad and Taylor decide to tell them the truth. Chad, Zeke, and Jason explain everything to Troy in the greenhouse and offer to support him at the callbacks. Taylor and the scholastic decathlon team tell Gabriella what they did, but she is still angry and hurt because of what Troy said, convinced that he meant it.
C / A week later, Gabriella's mother is transferred and Gabriella begins classes at East High in New Mexico and Troy is so happy to see her in homeroom. Since he calls her on her cell phone, Troy gets detention, with Gabriella; his best friend and teammate Chad, scholastic decathlon captain, Taylor McKessie, as well as Drama Club co-presidents Ryan and Sharpay Evans.
D / Troy skips basketball practice during free period to go for the auditions, which Gabriella also attends. However, both are too shy to come forward, so they hide themselves as Sharpay and Ryan perform their version of "What I've Been Looking For". When Gabriella finally decides to audition, Troy offers to sing with her, but Ms. Darbus says it is too late.
E / Later, Kelsi Nielsen, the composer of the musical, trips and drops her notes and piano music. Troy and Gabriella rush to help her, and she offers to let them hear how the song was originally supposed to sound. Troy and Gabriella then sing the slower version of the song, "What I've Been Looking For". Ms. Darbus hears them from behind the auditorium entrance and gives both Troy and Gabriella a callback.
F / After homeroom, Troy and Gabriella see each other again and as they start talking near the sign-up sheet for the winter musical auditions. When Sharpay sees them, she assumes that Gabriella is interested in signing up. Sharpay finds out that Gabriella is an "Einsteinette", and so she puts an article of Gabriella’s previous academic achievements into Taylor's locker to let her know about Gabriella’s talents.
G / After they sing, Troy kisses Gabriella on the cheek. In the end, Ms. Darbus decides to award the lead roles to Troy and Gabriella. At the basketball game, Sharpay accepts her defeat and tells Gabriella to "break a leg". After winning both the scholastic decathlon and the basketball game with Troy's last minute shot, the entire school gathers in the gym to celebrate ("We're All in This Together").
H / The next day, Sharpay sees the callback sheet and is furious. Once Chad and all the basketball players find out that Troy skipped basketball practice to audition for the musical, they are all shocked.
I / At lunch, everyone learns that Troy is doing something way out of a basketball players' nature, and the students start confessing their secret passions and talents ("Stick to the Status Quo").
J / Troy asks Gabriella to meet him at his secret hideout, the balcony of a greenhouse. There, she reveals that singing with him at the party was like meeting a new friend at kindergarten; she felt that he was like a best friend, although she hardly knew him.
K / Soon, Sharpay and Ryan overhear Gabriella and Troy practicing, and feel intimidated by the competition. Together, they convince Ms. Darbus to change the callbacks to the same time as the basketball championship and scholastic decathlon. Kelsi overhears their conversation with Mrs. Darbus, and when she tells everyone about this, they are devastated. However, the scholastic decathlon, the basketball teams and Kelsi work together to come up with a plan.
L / East High Basketball star Troy Bolton and math-whiz Gabriella Montez meet at a New Year's Eve party where they take part in a karoake contest and sing "Start of somethin new". They discover they are fond of each other and so they exchange their cell phone numbers.
M / Chad and Taylor decide that they need to devise a plan so that everything returns to normal. The basketball team tricks Troy into saying that Gabriella is not too important while she watches them through a wi-fi link. Gabriella is hurt and confused about where she and Troy now stand ("When There Was Me and You"). Troy tries to talk to Gabriella, but she tells him that she is not interested in taking part in the musical anymore and that it was never important to her.
N / On the D-day itself, Taylor and Gabriella send a code by computer into the system to disrupt the basketball game by shutting down the scoreboard, and boiling a hazardous chemical to stall the decathlon.
O / During detention, Taylor approaches Gabriella and invites her to join the school's scholastic decathlon team. Due to their detention, both Troy and Chad miss their basketball practice, and Coach Bolton, father of Troy, is very annoyed. Troy eventually takes part in basketball practice, but he cannot seem to stop thinking about Gabriella ("Get'cha Head in the Game").
P / As Troy and Gabriella then rush to the theater, Sharpay and Ryan finish performing their song, "Bop to the Top", and are confident that they will get the part. Troy and Gabriella show up after Ms. Darbus has called their names twice, and she tells them again that they are too late. Many other students start streaming into the auditorium to support them and Ms. Darbus has no choice but to allow them to perform "Breaking Free." Gabriella freezes when she sees everyone staring at her, but Troy tells her to look only at him, and she finds the courage to sing.
Q / That night, Troy goes to her house, but she pretends to be busy with homework. He then calls on her cellphone from her backyard, telling her that the guy she met on vacation is much more like him than the guy that "said those stupid things". He climbs onto her balcony and starts singing the harmony of "Start of Something New" in an attempt to persuade her to attend the callbacks with him. Gabriella then forgives him, and together with Kelsi, they start practicing for the callback at school.
The correct sequence:
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 910 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17
Pre-assessement task:
Fill in the table below. Share and discuss your answers with your group members:
What happens to XXX?
/Why does XXX do it?
/ Would you do the same thing if you were “XXX”? Why? If not, what would you do?Gabriella does not want to sing in the karaoke competition.
Mrs Darbus sends some school children to detention.
Sharpay sends the details of Gabriella to Taylor.
Mrs Darbus does not allow Troy and Gabriella to sing in the audition.
The friends of Troy and Gabriella do not want them to take part in the musical.
Troy says that Gabriella is not very important in the wi-fi link.
Sharpay convinces Mrs Darbus to change the date of the callbacks.
Gabriella sends a code to interrupt the basketball game.
Troy asks Gabriella to look at him when she sings.
Useful Words:
(Feelings)
Happiness / Sadness / Anger / Fear / Surprise / Doubtglad / upset / frustrated / afraid / amazed / doubtful
delighted / sad / annoyed / frightened / surprised / uncertain
pleased / unhappy / furious / scared / shocked / hesitating
(Personality/ Personal qualities)
supportive / keen on / responsible / negative / withdrawn / jealousdetermined / active / dedicated / nervous / aggressive / passive
hardworking / clever/ smart / smart / shy / proud / uninterested
calm / gentle / sincere / embarrassed / malicious / moody
humourous / shrewd / open-minded / bad-tempered / slow/stupid / calculating
understanding / lively / honest / suscipious / lazy/ tardy / evil
Assessment Task:
(Choose one of the questions below. You have one to two minutes to tell your friends about your ideas.)
1. Which part of the film is the most interesting/ impressive? Why?
2. Which part of the film could be deleted? Why?
3. Which part of the film could be put on stage at your school? Who do you think can be the cast?
- Write some comments about what the actors and actresses have done.
You have two minutes to tell your ideas to your classmates. Plan your ideas with a clear mind-map and don’t forget to support your opinions with examples from the film.