 My name is Miss Toya Tenay Taylor. I'm the executive director of WEAP, 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, Miss Sophie. Hey there. And Miss Crystal. 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 WEAP, 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. Arms. Our face. Face. Legs. Legs. Our minds. Minds. Our 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 what 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 stomp your feet. So if I clap, you stomp. Clap, stomp. See, it's super already, okay? So what we're gonna do today is teach you the signals and moves to Super Simon Says, and then if I do a signal, you do the roll 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 gonna 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. Swoosh, good low. You better stay low. Why am I down on the ground? You get low. Hahaha. Swipe, jump up. They're cheating you guys. If I do this, circle up. If I do this, run in place. Get those legs up, ladies. Get those legs up, hey. Hurrah, 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. Slide to the left. Slide to the right. Run, run, run, run in place. Get those legs up, get them up. Circle up, swipe in the air. Swipe on the ground. Jump up, and I missed one. Do the snake to the left. Do the snake to the right. Do the snake to the right. Do the snake to the right. Used to be a Janet Jackson fan, so I had to get on the snake it out. That was for you, Janet. All right, woo, I think I need a breathe. All right, super Simon says we're going to do a practice run. You ready? Be some place where you have space. Here we go. And I'm just gonna do the signals. I'm not gonna save them, just do them. I know some of you jumped up. I'm gonna swipe the floor, snake on them. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Here we go. Practice run, not bad. All right, you ready? I'm good. You ready? Heroic stance, you got this. Getting your heroic stance. Here we go. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. I'm out of shape you guys. That was amazing. You guys, woo. I feel like I'm sweating 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 when we have 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 can do it with your friends. You can 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 joining us for that segment. I'm Toya Tine Taylor, Executive Director of WEAP. 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.