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Charlie Challenge

The Charlie Challenge: Keeping the Story of Charlie Alive

Welcome to the Challenge.

Three challenges will be offered according to this schedule:

Challenge #1: Charlie’s Past February 4; due March 1

Challenge #2: Charlie’s Future March 8; due April 1

Challenge #3: Charlie’s Goals April 8; due May 1

 

 

 

Rules of the Game

  1. Each challenge consists of a written and a physical portion.
  2. Challenges are designed to be worked on as individuals. However, if you are going to work with someone, an explanation of why and how you will have worked with this person will be required.
  3. Points are accrued as detailed in each challenge. There are opportunities to gain more points, and/or lose them. Opportunity #1: if you work on the entire first challenge as an individual, you will receive a bonus point (1 point).
  4. While all who participate will win something, a leaderboard will be furnished at the end of the contest specifying the number of points gained and how they were gained.
  5. Deadlines must be honored, especially this second time around!
  6. At any point you can email for further clarification.
  7. One can choose to remove oneself from TCC at any time.

CHALLENGE #1: History of Charlie

February 4 (posted); due March 1, midnight

Written Challenge: Compose a creative piece of writing that shares the history of Charlie. Where he was born, to whom, the life he was born into, and what caused him to be left in the woods? Figure out how many other words can be made from the word Charlie? Identify six of these words and weave these into your historical story. Minimum word count: 400 words. Email Daniel by the deadline.

Points Earned: 10

Physical Challenge: In going back in time, we are going back and playing with time. Videotape yourself dancing Clap Hands, to the music you have learned the dance, starting from the last step first and finishing with the first step (the walks and runs). You are not turning the movement backward or reversing the actual movements, only executing the steps in the reverse order. Treat each step as a unit, meaning if a step starts to the right you can still begin it to the right. You are not changing or disrupting the movements themselves, only putting the sequence together in reverse order. This is not a 100% playing of the film in reverse (referred to as a retrograde). Find your own way to sew the movements together. Furthermore, in going back in time, much as in Merrily We Roll Along, we are also reverse aging. So that you begin the dance as an older figure and become younger as the dance continues, ending as a child. Use this guide to know where a moment begins:

  1. Start with ending, in lunge with arms shaking
  2. Do the turn
  3. Charleston steps (slow, then fast)
  4. Stumbles backward, forward, backward, forward
  5. Balances
  6. Skip Step Step
  7. Reaches/Shimmy/Drags/Turn
  8. Reaches High and Low/Paddle Turns
  9. Suzy-Q, etc..

*Note: for the taping of this physical challenge, you can enlist the help of someone to video. You can also work with someone to help figure out the challenge, but dances must be taped as soloists. Email Daniel a link to your video by the deadline. Can use One Drive or Google Drive. Video should be available for download.

Points Earned: 25

BONUS POINTS

Throughout TCC there will be opportunities to earn bonus points.

To know: the early bird gets the worm. Points will be given to all in the order in which you signed up for the challenge. These points will be revealed at the start of the second challenge. The difference between one person and the next is a tenth of a point (.10).