Product: How easy or difficult is it to come up with something off the top of your head?
Bell Work: How easy or difficult is it for you to express yourself without words? (3 sentence minimum)
Class Activities
The students started the day off by learning three new terms:
playwright - one who writes plays.
mime - the silent art of using body movements to create an illusion of reality.
pantomime - the use of mime techniques, acting without words, to tell a story.
Playwright is the only theatre career vocabulary word that we learned today. Mime and pantomime tie into what we are currently working on in class. The students learned what mime is by explanation, pictures, and example. Afterwards, the students played a game called "What Are You Doing?".
You play by someone being onstage and miming something. Then, someone walks onstage and says, "What are you doing?" The person onstage replies with, "I am __________." The response can be anything but the action that they are miming. Once the person that was miming responds, they exit the stage. The person who asks what the other was doing then begins to mime the action that the other person responded with. Confused? This might help:
(A is miming playing basketball. B enters the stage.)
B: What are you doing?
A: I am cooking breakfast.
(A exits the stage still miming basketball. B starts miming cooking breakfast.)
"What Are You Doing?" was played for the rest of class. We will continue our work with mime and pantomime next week!
Student Planner: Vocab! Vocab! Vocab!
Important!
For those students and parents that keep up with the blog, here is a little hint for class on Monday. There is going to be a pop quiz on all the vocabulary that the students covered this week on Monday, September 19, 2011!
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