Today was my last day in the classroom with the students. I am really going to miss interacting with them and watching them get excited for drama time! It has been so rewarding to see the progress that they all have made over the course of our time together- from little to no drama experience to really enjoying and thriving in this artform and creativity. Watching them get so involved in this final project has been the best part of this whole experience. I am really proud of the quality of work that they have created and I’m so excited to share their work with you! (To see these final projects click on the final projects tab) So, today the students finished up any last minute changes that they wanted to make on their scripts. Some of the students were missing on days that we had been working on the scripts during class time so unfortunately some of the students didn’t get to completely finish during our time together. However, all of the students did get a chance today to do a reader’s theatre of sorts of their scripts as a performance. I decided that because there were so many students (there are around 30 students in the class) a formal performance of each script would take up way too much time, so from the beginning of this project, I chose to focus less on a performance and more on the process of writing for the students. I still chose to allow them to see their scripts in action in a reader’s theatre of sorts like I mentioned before. Each student was able to see their script in a dramatic reading by other students in the class. This was achieved by putting the students into groups and having them read and rotate through their scripts. I was pleasantly surprised by how much initiative some of the groups took to utilize some of the acting concepts that we have talked about over the course of our time together to add to their reading. Some groups chose to incorporate staging techniques, some choose to incorporate different voices for their characters, and some chose to involve movement in their readings. It was so fun to see their creativity come to life! I am so proud of these students and their willingness to be creative and have fun with the work we are doing! Here are some pictures of our last day together!
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