Drama Reflection 5:

Drama in Education Part 1

Agenda - Lessons to Improve our Understanding of Drama: 

• Tableau
• Writing in role: Hidden Letters
• My presentation week!

Getting Started: Arrival/Departure 

• In pairs:
• We create one tableau of a departure and one tableau of an arrival.
• We create a 4-count transition from departure to arrival, and back to departure.
• This was an excellent way to demonstrate transitions of scenes, and allows the students to have the power of choice within their scene.

Focus: Drama as a Social Art Form; The Elements of Drama 

• We spoke about Jason, Mary, and Rebecca, three character in the story we read as a class
• We made up a play enacting the different scenarios that might have occurred instead of the original story.

As educators, this is a great tool to utilize for our drama students. 

• I have seen in my own classroom in practicum the necessity for teachers to know our students: their interests, their experiences, etc., and apply these to concepts shown in the classroom. 
• Through creating drama as a social art form, we can enhance these experiences to one shared experience.

Writing in role: Hidden Letters

In Extension:

• We adopted the role of Jason or Mary, through a written letter to our partner. 
• You will hide this letter and your partner will find it after the departure. 
• What do you want your partner to know, to feel, to remember, to think about, during the absence?
• This is a great method to incorporate literacy cross-curricular expectations to the drama classroom.
  
  

 My Group's Presentation !!!

• Guiliana, Ashley, Michael, Nicole and I were in charge of presentations this week!
• Our presentation was about the Canadian Confederacy, with role play emphasis on the 6 (at the time) Provincial party leaders! 
• I really had fun with this presentation, as we were able to get creative with our thinking and with the majority of us, we have a shared passion in social studies. 
• In connecting this social studies aspect to the drama curriculum, I could see how this would create an opportunity for in-depth reflection that might not be with all students prior to this role play simulation.
  

Thats all for now! Until Next Week!