Grade 8 - Exploration and Imagination (Expression and Trust)
This sub-organizer contains the following sections:
Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources
PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES
It is expected that students will trust themselves and others in order to express and reflect on thoughts, feelings, and beliefs; to take risks within a dramatic context; and to express themselves through active engagement in drama.
It is expected that students will:
- demonstrate trust through collaborative drama
- demonstrate the unique ability of drama to unify a diverse group
- demonstrate an appreciation for the diversity of others and their various perspectives
- make choices among a variety of ways to express thoughts, feelings, and beliefs
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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
- Use a Get-to-Know-Each-Other sheet to promote group awareness; have students follow up with a guessing game (see People Bingo in Appendix G).
- Play Two Truths and One Lie (see Appendix G).
- As a group, brainstorm and make a web of the meaning and importance of key terms and concepts related to expression and trust (e.g., teamwork, respect, trust, imagination).
- Invite students to work in pairs to present stories about themselves (e.g., "My most embarrassing moment," "My hero is "), with one student speaking and the other doing the arm gestures.
- Develop dramatic work that explores solutions to common problems (e.g., loneliness, peer pressure) and promotes acceptance of individual differences.
- Participate in activities that develop trust and encourage risk taking (e.g., Circle of Trust, see Appendix G).
- Engage students in "change your tune" activities, providing opportunities for a student to speak, without extensive practice, on both sides of a contentious issue.
- Present contrasting scenes showing various physical and verbal ways to express frustrations, and make choices between them.
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
Teachers gather information about studentsą willingness to trust others and commitment to work together by observing group activities and reviewing their reflections about the activities.
- As students work together on trust-building exercises and improvisations, look for evidence that they voluntarily:
- offer their own ideas
- participate in group and partneractivities
- respond in ways that extend activities and build on the ideas of others
- seek response and feedback from others
- respond to others and their work in a positive, supportive manner
- Invite students to record (e.g., write, sketch, videotape) their reflections on activities. You may wish to provide specific prompts or tasks. Review their reflections for evidence that they:
- are increasing their level of trust in other students
- value the work done by others
- are interested in the points of view of others
- are aware of a variety of ways to communicate
RECOMMENDED LEARNING RESOURCES
Print Material
- 200+ Ideas for Drama
- Acting Games
- Christmas On Stage
- Comedy Improvisation
- The Complete Book of Speech Communication
- Creating with Shakespeare
- Creative Drama in Groupwork
- Drama 14 - 16: A Book of Projects and Resources
- Drama Guidelines
- Mime Time
- Now Playing
- Readers Theatre Anthology
- Skits and Scenes
- Someday: A Play
- Story Drama: Reading, Writing and Roleplaying Across the Curriculum
- Storymaking and Drama: An Approach to Teaching Language and Literature
- The Theatre and You: A Beginning
- Wings to Fly
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