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ilovebdt
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 Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:01 am Post subject: Plays |
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Has anyone ever taught a lesson based around a play?
I want to get my kids out of their seats and was thinking about them reading and acting out a short play.
Any ideas?
Will swap my lesson plans for any ideas 
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:17 am Post subject: |
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I've thought about (but been to lazy actually to attempt) doing a scene from a musical. What I may try one of these weeks is first showing them the scene on a DVD, then going over the script and song lyrics, then trying to get the whole class to act it out. Munchkinland from Wizard of Oz or Fagin's Den from Oliver Twist come foremost to mind - something with a lot of supporting cast would be really good.
For our school music festival one class did the Doe Ray Me scene from Sound of Music and it worked really well. I could ask the class prefect for the file, as I'm sure she still has it, if you'd like to try that. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:19 am Post subject: |
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The bloody swear-a-tron bleeped out F a g i n ' s.
At least this site exists to remind me what I hate most about back home: political correctness. |
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Zack_in_Korea
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:56 am Post subject: Yes.. |
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I wrote a play for my students.
A novel didn't arrive so to fill those classes we rehearsed a short 12 minute play.
If you find writing a play hard then of course that's out of the question. I however don't, and it took me maybe 3 or 4 hours. I was able to incorporate themes and inside jokes into the mix too. It was an amazing experience, it really got the students interested and made me look very good. Bottom libe though, really it was a rewarding experience. I say go for it. The key is to get the students motivated. If you can find something they will like then you have a good way to use your time. If they don't like what you are doing it will make class time even worse. You will need their co-operation. If Korean kids are excited about something then they can do incredible things. |
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mswiftansan
Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: plays |
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I am hoping to do a play with some of my elementary students.
I found some good short and fairly easy ones on www.pbskids.org
Good luck, let us know how it goes! |
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ilovebdt
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Thanks for the ideas kids. Not sure how manageable it is going to be with 40 kids.
Anyone know a play with 40 parts?  |
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idealjetsam
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| ilovebdt wrote: |
Thanks for the ideas kids. Not sure how manageable it is going to be with 40 kids.
Anyone know a play with 40 parts? |
Put them in groups and have them be responsible for different scenes.
After showing my kids the Romeo and Juliet movie, we performed it, but this was an extended exercise that took a few weeks. And it was an elite all-girls school.
What I have found more manageable is taking scenes from certain movies and having the kids prepare and perform the scenes as skits. Sometimes I had them relieve each other after scene/act changes but the kids always had more fun performing the same scene and trying to outdo/outshock each other. My first experience with this was with the Matrix and nowadays my middleschoolers love taking on The Incredibles.
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| ilovebdt wrote: |
Thanks for the ideas kids. Not sure how manageable it is going to be with 40 kids.
Anyone know a play with 40 parts? |
Put them in groups and have them be responsible for different scenes.
After showing my kids the Romeo and Juliet movie, we performed it, but this was an extended exercise that took a few weeks. And it was an elite all-girls school.
What I have found more manageable is taking scenes from certain movies and having the kids prepare and perform the scenes as skits. Sometimes I had them relieve each other after scene/act changes but the kids always had more fun performing the same scene and trying to outdo/outshock each other. My first experience with this was with the Matrix and nowadays my middleschoolers love taking on The Incredibles.
Cheers. |
The skits sounds like a good idea. Do you have any lesson plan you would care to share?
Thanks a million |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
I've thought about (but been to lazy actually to attempt) doing a scene from a musical. What I may try one of these weeks is first showing them the scene on a DVD, then going over the script and song lyrics, then trying to get the whole class to act it out. Munchkinland from Wizard of Oz or *beep*'s Den from Oliver Twist come foremost to mind - something with a lot of supporting cast would be really good.
For our school music festival one class did the Doe Ray Me scene from Sound of Music and it worked really well. I could ask the class prefect for the file, as I'm sure she still has it, if you'd like to try that. |
That sounds like a possible. Yes, please
Thanks a million
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