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Students Rockin’ the Stage at Copper Canyon Elementary School
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They are having fun, singing their hearts out, and really rockin’ it, taking the stage at Copper Canyon Elementary School.
On this episode of the Supercast, meet 6th grade students who make up the cast of ‘School House Rock Jr.’ and find out how their Beverley Taylor Sorenson teacher is helping them to bring down the house during their performances of the energetic show.
Audio Transcription
[music]Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. They are having fun singing their hearts out and really rocking it, taking the stage at Copper Canyon Elementary School.
On this episode of the Supercast, meet sixth grade students who make up the cast of Schoolhouse Rock Jr. and find out how their Beverly Taylor Sorensen teacher is helping them bring down the house during their performances of this energetic show.
[music]We're here at Copper Canyon this morning with our BTS Theater Specialist and a few cast members for the production that is underway right now. Thank you very much for spending time with us. Introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what's going on.
Sheri Harrington:
My name is Sheri Harrington and I am the Beverly Taylor Sorensen Learning Arts Specialist here at Copper Canyon Elementary. We feel very privileged and honored to have you here. We were surprised at it. So we are getting ready to perform this week the production of Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr. We've been practicing this since October. It is a musical based on– a lot of parents might remember when they were young on Saturday mornings– the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons. I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill.
Anthony Godfrey:
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill if I'm not mistaken.
Sheri Harrington:
Yes, see what you learned from it.
Anthony Godfrey:
I do remember, yes I did.
Sheri Harrington:
Conjunction, junction, what's your function? And so what I love about this musical,
Anthony Godfrey:
Picking up wood and freezes and clauses.
Sheri Harrington:
See, you remember that from how long ago?
Anthony Godfrey:
Did I get it right?
Sheri Harrington:
Yes.
Anthony Godfrey:
Okay.
Sheri Harrington:
And how long has it been since you have heard that song?
Anthony Godfrey:
Well, let's talk about that. It's been a very, very long time. Decades, many decades. Back in the 1900s girls when I was listening to that.
Sheri Harrington:
Way back in the 1900s.
Anthony Godfrey:
So what made you pick this particular production that stirs so many memories for me and for some others? Now our elementary parents are a little bit young to remember some of this, which is a jarring fact for me to embrace this early in the morning.
Sheri Harrington:
Yes, me too. Some of them remember them and are familiar with them. But of course a lot of them are a little young.
Anthony Godfrey:
Even the concept of Saturday morning cartoons where cartoons were contained to one part of one day of the week, as opposed to being continually available.
Sheri Harrington:
Right.
Anthony Godfrey:
Even that concept is a little bit foreign to most people at this point.
Sheri Harrington:
Right. Well, one reason I chose this musical was because it integrates theater with all of our core subjects. The musical covers social studies and math and science and language arts. So it's not just a singing, dancing, fun musical. It's a musical that teaches students about conjunctions. It teaches students about how it works as a bill on Capitol Hill.
Anthony Godfrey:
Now it is a singing, dancing, fun experience.
Sheri Harrington:
Yes.
Anthony Godfrey:
But there is that side benefit of having some things bu