Week 8 Teaching Drama

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Lyon College

Secondary English Methods

Fall 2011

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Shakespeare

Folger Shakespeare Library

Play-by-Play

Web English Teacher Play-by-Play

Elizabethan Age

The Globe Theater

Sonnets

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

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Connect personal experiences to events in the drama(teachers can help by using good questioning techniques).

Visualize the characters as you read stage directions.

Evaluate characters' words and actions and determinewhat motivates them.

Notice character changes. Compare characters.

Make a three column chart - label the left column, character 

1; the middle column, shared traits; the right column,character 2.

Fill in the chart as you read.

Analyze monologues and soliloquies. Read the play aloud.

Identify the setting.

Evaluate how the setting affects the play's mood.

Identify major and minor conflicts.

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"The Power of Readers Theater," Scholastic

Instructor 

Literacy Connections: Readers Theater - lots

of links!Readers Theater Scripts and Plays

Aaron Sheppard's and other's stories/readers

theater productions of various cultures

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Teaching Drama

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Veterans’ Day 

“In Flander’s Field” 

Discuss meaning of symbol of poppy flower

Thanksgiving

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Your Wiki/Portfolio

Have we set up a Delicious/Diigo account?

In-Class Teach

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Enjoy!