Play!! 11.2

Class Activities/ Notes: 

Lets break it DOWN nowwwww!


Peter and the wolf/zoo
Dramatic Play:

• Imitation -(imitating the tranquilizer gun-courtesy of Tahj) hehe
• Repetition
• Movement-(move like wolves)
• Sound/Music
• Language-English to French (Mme Koppera)
• Ritual Routine
• Conflict (getting the cubs to a safe place)
• Story Narrative (Peter and The Wolf)
• Role Character (Village/Zoo Keeper)
• Change/Transformation
• Objects/ Props (backpack and a scarf -used as wolf) (letters and maps that us "villagers" created)
• Costumes (hats and sunglasses-transforms the character)
• Limits (well, as hard as the village people tried, we couldn't kill the wolf haha)

Creative Drama: 

• imagination
• no right or wrong
• depth of involvement
• offer learning opportunities
• creative power

This activity helped with our intro lesson to dramatic play because in some cases, we had to be really dramatic and work through this improv. There were no skits and so it was just whatever the imagination brought to mind. Working with the class was fun to see all the ideas everyone brought to the table and one could just jump off from that idea and just GO with it. extremely fun. Also it was so fun to see everyone work together to compliment one idea. For example, if one person saw the wolf move, the class would act on it before Tahj shot another tranquilizer at it haha. Today was fun.

READING: E-Reserves Drama As A Teaching Tool

• one of the most effect resources is theatre
• private schools often offer opportunities in arts but usually as minor subjects 
• theatre of the oppressed - Should art educate, inform organize, influence, incite to action or simply be an object of pleasure? i believe art can and/or should  be able to do all of  those things. Being pleasurable brings focus to it so that it can educate inform, organize, influence, etc. However without being pleasurable, it can still be focused upon. And i tend to think a lot of times when someone is being challenged by a subject, they are learning more. Theatre of the oppressed brings out those challenging emotions from/for their audience.
• when players are stimulated and freed to make full use of their creative powers they produce work that is not only is satisfying to them but communicates to others. Again, i agree with this because when we as a class started getting into the village people, as more people got into characer, it made it more believeable not only as a class but we were into it ourselves! i strongly believe the way we answered those letters and plotted out maps for the cubs, if it were a show or an extreme reason for doing it, we could have made someone believe.