Friday, October 05, 2007

Oops!! I forgot to talk about my second workshop. In the afternoon, "Creating Basic Drama Templates Across the Curriculum" took the book "The Lonely Scarecrow" by Tim Preston and guided us through basic drama strategies and techniques that could be implemented in the classroom: teacher in role, freeze and tableau, soundscape, chant, voices in the head, hotseating, elements of movement, get in - do something -get out. In groups of 4, we were asked to walk towards something scary, then freeze. This particular example of a tableau was to help students understand a section of the story where all the animals slowly walked up towards the scarecrow to investigate him. It was interesting to see the different tableau's our group of teachers came up with. We were able to express curiosity, being scared and friendship. If anyone is interested I have a copy of the handout to share.

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