Prescribed Learning Outcomes
It is expected that students will:
- describe their feelings and ideas to be used in a dramatic work
- demonstrate respect for the contributions of others
- identify aspects of a dramatic work that evoke a response
- demonstrate co-operative effort in dramatic work
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Suggested Instructional Strategies
- Invite students to explore and share different ways of moving through Movement Journeys. Narrate a journey related to a theme or story being studied in the classroom (e.g., while studying life on the prairies, narrate a journey through the snow in a horse-drawn sled) as students respond through movement and sound. Then ask students to describe how they felt at various points during the journey. As a class, discuss reasons for their different responses. Have students role-play various aspects of the theme or the story.
- Ask students to play "Hoop-La" (see Appendix F), miming ways of moving from place to place (e.g., as sailors fleeing pirates at sea, a mouse family fleeing a cat). After the game, students respond to questions such as: How did you help each other? How did your ideas and the ideas of others contribute to the group work? How did you feel about what you did?
- Have students play "Observation" (see Appendix F) to develop co-operation and observation skills. After the game, ask questions such as: What clues helped you to discover what was different? Did you try to help your partner guess? What is the difference between how you observed your partner and how you usually look at others?
- After watching or participating in a dramatic work, have students describe what they observed and respond to questions (e.g., How did the drama make you feel? How did you feel about what happened to the characters? What do you think is going to happen next?) As a class, discuss what aspects of the dramatic work evoked the responses.
Suggested Assessment Strategies
- When students participate in and discuss their Movement Journeys, look for evidence that they:
- willingly share their feelings and ideas
- describe how they felt at specific moments in the journey
- develop a vocabulary of words and phrases that they can use to describe increasingly specific feelings
- recognize that different people react to the same event in different ways
- support and respect their classmates' feelings and ideas
- After students have participated in "Hoop-La," use questions such as the following to gather insights into their ideas about the activity:
- How did your group get along? Did you enjoy the activity?
- What were some problems your group had to solve? How did you solve them?
- What part of the activity was most fun?
- What ideas do you have that you could use the next time we play "Hoop-La"?
- As students work together, look for evidence
that they:
- speak respectfully to one another
- offer supportive non-verbal cues to one another
- support and praise one another's efforts
- volunteer to help one another
- are willing to include all students, not just their friends
- Provide prompts for journals or learning logs such as:
- In drama, I like it when ---------- .
- I had a lot of fun when we ---------- .
- I wish we could ---------- more often.
- I'd like to try ---------- .
Invite students to show their ideas by writing, sketching, or using pictures provided by the teacher.
Recommended Learning Resources
Print Materials
- Building Plays
- Center Stage
- Christmas On Stage
- Creative Drama in Groupwork
- Drama Guidelines
- Dramathemes
- In Role
- Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers
- Story Drama
