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marlow
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 Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:13 am Post subject: Talent Show |
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I have to have a mixed gender class of about twenty students do a five minute talent show performance. Any ideas? They are mid-level middle school students.
Last time I did this I had my students perform "Pinball Wizard" from Tommy. They acted out the scene with props and did lip sync.
Other teachers had their students do songs or short skits.
I hate doing this. The educational benefit is minimal and it takes a lot of effort to pull it off. It literally is just for show. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: Re: Talent Show |
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| marlow wrote: |
I have to have a mixed gender class of about twenty students do a five minute talent show performance. Any ideas? They are mid-level middle school students.
Last time I did this I had my students perform "Pinball Wizard" from Tommy. They acted out the scene with props and did lip sync.
Other teachers had their students do songs or short skits.
I hate doing this. The educational benefit is minimal and it takes a lot of effort to pull it off. It literally is just for show. |
I love this sort of thing. I had to prepare a skit with some middle schoolers and it was great fun. Actually, I didn't have to do it - I wanted to do it.
I'd try to assess the kids' abilities and shyness vs. boldness and assign major and minor roles accordingly. They're Koreans so it doesn't matter how juvinile it is. Do something like the Three Little Pigs with lots of supporting characters and a song. The only problem is that you only have five minutes.
I disagree about there being little educational value to this sort of thing. Your group is too big, unfortunately, but you can still learn a lot. You can have high-intensity pronunciation practice with a few kids while the rest can take a break. They learn just hanging out and talking with you between rehearsing scenes. It's a great way to get to know them better. And best of all, they're really motivated because someone's going to be watching it (though they do have a tendency to leave the hard practicing til the last minute).
Go in it with a positive attitude and have lots of fun! |
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K-in-C
Joined: 27 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: Talent Show |
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How about doing something with a poem? Set up the stage as a cafe and do a poetry slam/open mike skit.  |
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marlow
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: Talent Show |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
I disagree about there being little educational value to this sort of thing. Your group is too big, unfortunately, but you can still learn a lot. You can have high-intensity pronunciation practice with a few kids while the rest can take a break. They learn just hanging out and talking with you between rehearsing scenes. It's a great way to get to know them better. And best of all, they're really motivated because someone's going to be watching it (though they do have a tendency to leave the hard practicing til the last minute).
Go in it with a positive attitude and have lots of fun! |
You're right. I'm just a little lazy. I've actually been thinking it over, and have decided to let the students make their own production. If they can't get anything going, I'll help them along.
| K-in-C wrote: |
| How about doing something with a poem? Set up the stage as a cafe and do a poetry slam/open mike skit. |
This sounds promising. |
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