Magnet Newsletter
October 6th, 2023
From the Desks of the Magnet Directors
Vocal Magnet Director- Ms. Daniel
Upcoming Rehearsals
Trouveres Tuesday 4-6
Performances This Week
Outstanding Choral Students Auditions Thursday 4-6
Lee High Representatives
Leeya Shoulders
Miriam Bentley
Timothy Perkins
Current Projects
Fall Festival Performances/activities
Trumbauer Competition
All State Auditions
Winter Concert
Thank you to all students and parents that performed/supported AAMU HOMECOMING! Permission slips have gone home for the All City Festival field trip. Please sign and return those ASAP. Thank you!
Instrumental Director- Mr. Pearson
This past week, Instrumental Magnet focused on All-State requirements. We currently have 6 scales learned with percussion and woodwinds playing 2 octaves. Students also received their All-State audition solos as well as their individual performance solos. The individual performance solos will be used to build their repertoire and perform at a possible fall and spring recital. We are also excited to announce that we will begin our string program on Monday, October 9, 2023.
Technical Director of Theatre- Ms. Campolongo
Hello Theatre FamiLee!! I hope you all had a restful Fall Break and are ready to get back at it! As Trumbauer is coming soon, we are ramping up work calls and rehearsals so we can meet our deadline and be ready for performances and competition. In class, we will be focusing on finishing the build for the One Act and continuing work on our IEs. I'm listing here the upcoming Work Calls to build the One Act.
Mon Oct 9: 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Tues Oct 10: 4:00 - 6:30 pm (parent volunteer opportunity)
Wed Oct 11: 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Thurs Oct 12: 4:00 - 6:30 pm (parent volunteer opportunity)
Fri Oct 13: 4:00 - 6:30 pm
Sat Oct 14th: 2:30 - 5:00 pm (after the Fall Festival, but students can be in the shops working during the festival.)
Additionally: We have our upcoming Fall Festival where we will collaborate with Academy for Academics and Arts and help promote our respective Magnet programs. We will need student volunteers to help work the event. (this will be an hours' opportunity for tech students) More details will be given during class.
Dance Magnet Director- Mrs. Hunkapillar
Parents-please remind your students to keep up with their notebooks. Each turn in counts as a test grade. Upcoming events in DME- The Major company will be performing in the Magnet Fall Festival on Saturday, October 14. All DME students will be teaching hands-on activities at the festival. We will begin working on the activities after fall break. The festival is a grade and it will also count toward the extracurricular requirements for each magnet student. These logs were given to the dancers as a hard copy to keep in their dance notebooks. The notebooks and the logs are part of the first semester’s final exam. I posted the logs on their Schoology Group in case they need to make another copy.
In class this week, the dancers have started their group choreography projects. All students are required to work in collaboration with their groups to create a student piece for the fall concert performance. This includes choosing and cutting their music, deciding on their costumes, and designing their lighting ideas. The fall concert is; “Ignite the Fire” November 16 and 17 at 7:00 pm. I will send very detailed information at a later date. All dancers are performing in our finale and will need to purchase something pink to wear for their costume. As always, if you have any questions, please email, call, or text me. ~Hunk
Creative Writing Magnet Director- Ms. Sisson
Students are diligently working on multiple contests each week:
PTSA Reflections - school competition in October
Trumbauer - playwriting - district in November
Poetry Out Loud - original, social issues, and anthology - school competition in December
All classes have decided our theme for Harmoniouslee vol. X will be "Lost in Translation." Art and literary pieces can be emailed to lhsharmoniouslee@gmail.com. All students have access to InDesign/ Photoshop and are learning design while choosing their best pieces for their personal and school literary magazines.
Our literary analysis focus this month will be the authors/professors: Kris Whorton of UTC and Sam Moe of UAH. We were gifted class sets of their books by the UAH English department. Dr. Whorton will run the authors' masterclass and critique session at UAH on October 24th.
Visual Arts Magnet Directors- Mrs. Johnson and Ms. Radowski
VA I Magnet is finishing their Dia De Los Muertos Infographic and glazing their pinch pots.
VA II is glazing their pottery pieces and will start looking at the pottery skulls they will do when we come back from Fall Break.
Visual Art Magnet III are developing research posters in groups to help educate the community about Dia de los Muertos. They are also creating a ceramic skull to honor someone who has passed. They will use traditional day of the dead symbols and personal symbols to help communicate.
Students needed to submit their Self-portrait still life this week. This is a major project grade for their first quarter report card.
Photography Magnet Director- Mr. Willmarth
Students are building the skills in order to be creative using Photography as their medium of expression. As we have laid the groundwork for technique, students will begin to create content. Beginning and proficient students have learned how traditional photographic mediums work and are now working on darkroom printing. Many students have a film camera to shoot with over Fall break. Advanced students have transitioned to using digital tools (Photoshop and Lightroom) to create unique compositions and will be using studio lights to create portraits this fall.
Film and Video Director- Mr. Lee
Students have completed production on Welcome to the Leegion Podcast, Season 2, Episode 1 which releases on October 1st. You can find the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Older episodes are available on Youtube. This October, we will release seasonal podcast and video content on Feature Fridays! Please visit our Youtube channel and subscribe for updates.
Links Below:
Fall Arts Festival
Please join us for our Fall Arts Festival on Saturday, October 14 from 11am-2pm. The festival will feature interactive activities designed by visual and performing arts magnet students & instructors as well as a Q&A session with current magnet students. This event is free! Please come to the theatre entrance.
