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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Last week during my visit, I started working on the final project for the semester with the students! I decided that this project would be centered around playwriting. In thinking back on all of the lessons that I taught, one of the drama concepts that the students had the most fun with during our time together was playwriting. The students got a taste for playwriting in the multiplication lesson I taught a few weeks back. If you'd like to refer to that lesson plan click here: The students had a blast with this and came up with so many creative ideas! I think this was the lesson that I was able to engage all of the students in for the entire lesson, simply because they loved creating their own scenes. So, I decided that I wanted to take that a step further and have them write their own short play and perform them for each other in a reader's theatre style on our last day together. This project will be spread out over the remainder of my time with the students, which is 4 more lessons. Last week, I didn't have a lesson plan written out like I have in the past, we simply just filled out the first 3 pages of the playwriting journal that I created for them to help guide their creativity. Please refer to the document below to see the full journal. I am so excited to continue this project, and I think that the students will come up with some really fun and creative short plays!
Last week was my fourth visit to Mrs. Adamson's class! I have so much fun with these students every time that I am in the classroom. This week the students were learning about circuits, so that's what my lesson was focused on. The students were able to create their own scientist characters to investigate different kinds of circuits. To see the full lesson plan as well as the supplemental materials, click here: The students really latched onto creating their characters and came up with some really fun designs for their lab coats. They liked it so much that Mrs. Adamson kept their worksheets for them to continue working on them for a future writing project. The only regret I have with this lesson is not allowing enough time for the students to fully investigate the circuits. That section of the lesson was cut shorter than I would have liked. Overall, I think that the students really enjoyed this lesson.
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