COD 2011 - PS79
Drama & Playwriting as Literacy Tools
Teachers from third form through High School. No theatre experience is required.
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sessions, start: 12-Jul
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2011
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Berlfein
ESSARP Schools
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Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
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Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 July 2011 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Daniel Berlfein
Teachers from third form through High School. No theatre experience is required.
Participants will explore and examine practical and effective drama and playwriting tools to be used in the classroom. These strategies will stimulate students' literacy (writing, reading and speaking) and critical thinking skills- from a dynamic approach.
1) Warm Up Activities:
- Name Games.
- Literacy and alliteration games such as: Name and an adjective that describes you.
- Alphabet Race.
2) Energizing and Focusing Activities that Stimulate Literacy Skills:
- Concentric Circles to get to know each other.
- Cross the room as if participants are in different environments… real stories, fables or folktale worlds (forest, jungle, park/ boat/ etc), pretending to be the characters of classic stories, or dealing with different issues that take place in the story.
3) Strategies:
A- Drama Strategies
- The Individual "Still Image".
- Examples and definition.
- Ask participants of one side (one line) to show a still image.
- "Still Image" controllers: Picture & Action.
- Group "Still Image".
- (Examples: on a Roller Coaster/ the Beach).
- "Still Image" literacy components Thought tracking & Caption.
- Processing questions: Differences Between Individual & Groups.
- Application of the "Still Image" to literacy
Working in small groups, participants will apply the "Still image" to a text (story, folk tale, poem, etc). Teachers will read analyze and present their work to the rest.
Application of controllers, etc (Picture/ Action/ thought tracking).
- Explore the many uses of "still image" to motivate reading, writing and speaking.
B- Playwriting Strategies
- Based on simple dramatizations, participants will create: Animal, Object and people biographies.
- Through simple creative writing and improvisation exercises participants will: write animal, object and people biographies; create comic strips; invent object-monologues; write one minute plays; develop a character based on a picture, write dialogues, conflicts; explore scene work and its elements; do improvisations that motivate writing, rewriting and editing.
- Adaptation of writing exercises for younger students.
- Hand out exercises for teachers to use in their classroom.
- Name Games.
- Literacy and alliteration games such as: Name and an adjective that describes you.
- Alphabet Race.
2) Energizing and Focusing Activities that Stimulate Literacy Skills:
- Concentric Circles to get to know each other.
- Cross the room as if participants are in different environments… real stories, fables or folktale worlds (forest, jungle, park/ boat/ etc), pretending to be the characters of classic stories, or dealing with different issues that take place in the story.
3) Strategies:
A- Drama Strategies
- The Individual "Still Image".
- Examples and definition.
- Ask participants of one side (one line) to show a still image.
- "Still Image" controllers: Picture & Action.
- Group "Still Image".
- (Examples: on a Roller Coaster/ the Beach).
- "Still Image" literacy components Thought tracking & Caption.
- Processing questions: Differences Between Individual & Groups.
- Application of the "Still Image" to literacy
Working in small groups, participants will apply the "Still image" to a text (story, folk tale, poem, etc). Teachers will read analyze and present their work to the rest.
Application of controllers, etc (Picture/ Action/ thought tracking).
- Explore the many uses of "still image" to motivate reading, writing and speaking.
B- Playwriting Strategies
- Based on simple dramatizations, participants will create: Animal, Object and people biographies.
- Through simple creative writing and improvisation exercises participants will: write animal, object and people biographies; create comic strips; invent object-monologues; write one minute plays; develop a character based on a picture, write dialogues, conflicts; explore scene work and its elements; do improvisations that motivate writing, rewriting and editing.
- Adaptation of writing exercises for younger students.
- Hand out exercises for teachers to use in their classroom.
Young Playwrights of New York exercises, Creative Arts Team DIE (Drama in Education) strategies, and Daniel Sklar's Playmaking techniques.
- The Art of Dramatic Writing - Lajos Egri.
- Teaching Young Playwrights - Gerald Chapman.
- Aristotle's Poetics - Francis Fergusson.
- Playmaking- Daniel Sklar.
- Teaching Young Playwrights - Gerald Chapman.
- Aristotle's Poetics - Francis Fergusson.
- Playmaking- Daniel Sklar.