Working on this final project with these students has been so fun! I am continually impressed by their original and creative ideas and the way that they are bringing these ideas to life. Just like last lesson, the students spent some more time working through their playwriting journals in preparation to writing their first draft of their play. For reference again, click on the following link to see the playwriting journals that I created for them to organize their ideas.
Just like last week, I didn't have a written lesson to follow, I just wanted to allow the students the freedom to write and create their characters. As a class, we learned about the basic structure of the story of their play and what elements were part of that structure (exposition, rising action, climax, denoument). And we talked about ways to create characters and character relationships. The students are just coming out of a creative writing unit in English, so a lot of these concepts are meant to help reinforce the knowledge that they have already gained from that. (See the final project tab for the full project objective and learning objectives for both English and Drama).
Taking these past few lessons to just let the students work and create based on the knowledge that they have of both English and Drama from our time together has allowed so much space for creativity and individuality. I have loved getting the chance to work individually with students and guide them in their creativity. That was something that wasn't as possible in my previous lessons with these students simply because of the size of the class (30 students!). But by giving them this opportunity to just work and create, I have been able to gain that one on one time with each of the students, and I feel that it has been beneficial to me to understand not only the way that different learners interact with this kind of material, but also to help create that desire to be creative and challenge these students to do something that most of them have never done. I am so excited for the students to start working on their first drafts of their plays and I am so excited to share with you some of the fantastic work that they will create very soon!
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