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- Hi my name is Ms. Toyia Tynae Taylor.
I'm the executive director of WeAPP
We Act, Present, and Perform.
And we have an amazing program called Speak With Purpose
which we are happy is the only public speaking program
offered in Seattle Public Schools.
This is my amazing team, Ms. Sophie.
- Hey there.
- And Ms. Krystal.
- Hi.
- And today we are going to learn about body movement.
Now why is body movement important
in a public speaking class?
I'll tell you why.
Because in WeAPP we talk about the whole instrument.
Your body is this amazing instrument that you use
to speak with purpose.
All right.
So, what are some of the parts of the instrument?
- Our voice.
- Absolutely.
- Our arms.
- Arms.
- Our face.
- Face.
- Legs.
- Our minds.
- Minds.
- Hearts.
- Our hearts.
And our facial expressions.
Our eyes, when we look at people it says so much about us.
So, today we are going to use
our whole body with our voices.
Okay.
So, we always do heroic stance.
This is where your feet are shoulder width apart.
Your shoulders are relaxed, your sternum is high
and your chin is like so.
All right, body movement.
We are going to teach you how
to really just get comfortable with your body.
With one of our most popular activities
called Super Simon Says.
Now, you might be like "Simon Says I haven't played
"that since I was a little kid."
You never played Super Simon Says though.
All right.
So, usually with Simon Says you have to repeat.
Or the person will tell you "Simon Says do this."
We don't do that in Super Simon Says.
You learn a signal that is connected to a movement.
Sounds complicated already, right?
This is how it works, okay.
If I clap my hands.
That's the signal to stop your feet.
So if I clap, you stomp.
Clap, stomp.
See it's super already.
So, what were going to do today is teach you the signals
and moves to Super Simon Says.
And then if I do a signal,
you do the wrong move, you're out.
So you always wanna do the right movement
to the right signal.
Okay.
Standing up, you ready?
Learn the moves with us.
Here we go.
I'm going to do all of them, all right.
When I clap, you stomp.
Clap, stomp.
If I stomp, you clap.
Stomp, you clap.
If I do this, run this way.
This, run this way.
If I do this, slide to the left.
This, slide to the right.
If I do this, you're gonna duck down.
Get all the way to the ground as low as you can go.
If I swipe my hand on the ground, you jump up.
Jump as high as you can.
Swipe, jump.
(Swooth)
Get low.
(swooth)
You guys are staying low?
Why am I down on the ground?
Get low.
(laughing)
Swipe, jump up.
They're cheatin' you guys.
If I do this, circle up.
If I do this, run in place.
Get those legs up ladies, get those legs up.
Heroic stance, woo feel the burn.
All right, let's try it again.
Watch the signals, here we go.
If I clap, you stomp.
If I stomp, you clap.
(clapping and stomping)
Slide, to the left.
Slide, to the right.
Uh.
Run, uh.
Run, um.
Run in place, get those legs up.
Get'em up.
Circle up.
Ah, swipe in the air.
Uh, swipe on the ground.
Jump up.
And I missed one.
Do the snake, to the left.
Do the snake, to the right.
Used to be a Janet Jackson fan so I had to snake it out.
That was for you Janet.
All right, woo.
I think I need to breathe.
All right, Super Simon Says we're going
to do a practice run.
You ready?
Be someplace where you have space.
Here we go.
I'm just going to do the signals, I'm not going to say them.
Just do them.
(clapping and stomping)
(stomp stomp)
(clap clap)
Ha, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down.
Ha, stay down.
I know some of you jumped up.
Stay down.
Ha, stay down, stay down.
I'm gonna swipe the floor.
(Ra, Ra)
Run that way.
Run to the right.
Run that way.
In the middle.
Circle up, circle up.
Snake on them.
(mouth beat sounds)
(feet quickly pounding)
All right, here we go.
Practice run, not bad.
All right, you ready?
- Let's do this.
- You ready?
Heroic stance, you got this.
Get in your heroic stance.
Here we go.
(stomping and clapping)
Ah.
(mouth beat noises)
(Ra, Ra)
Get low.
Get low, stay there.
Jump up.
(feet quickly pounding)
(clapping and stomping)
Um, man I'm out of shape you guys.
That was amazing.
You guys, woo.
(laughing)
Feel like I'm sweatin' up here.
That was Super Simon Says and as you can see
now you know why it's super.
It's not your regular Simon Says.
This is what we do in WeAPP
to teach our scholars body movement.
It's a great way to learn listening, memorization.
What else?
- Learning new directions.
- Direction following, directions.
- Improv.
- Improv and having fun.
All right, so do it at home.
You could do with your friends,
you could do it with your parents.
Tell your teachers to do it with you at school as well.
That's the body movement.
These are the things you need to learn
when you are using a stage.
How do you use the whole stage,
using your whole body, the instrument?
So, thank you for joinin' us for that segment.
I'm Toyia Tynae Taylor executive director of WeAPP.
- I'm Ms. Sophie.
- And Ms. Krystal.
And we are happy you joined us.
Remember to always enjoy life.
Be true to yourself.
And do what?
Speak with purpose.
We'll see you in the next segment.
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