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AcTIvITy 4.9
drama Games: connecting the Mind and body
LeArNING STrATeGIeS:
Drama Games, Rehearsal, Brainstorming, Role Playing
Introducing the Strategy: Drama Games
Games can be a fun way to learn. Drama games are a form of role playing. Performing a role helps you make meaning of a text and understand it
from the viewpoint of both a reader and a performer. Drama games require imagination, teamwork, and rehearsal. They also require a sharing of ideas to help make a text come alive in a visual way.
Literary Terms
A tableau is a purposeful arrangement of characters frozen as if in a painting or a photograph. The arrangement should convey information about the characters and their relationships.
Learning Target
• Collaborate and perform a series of drama games to explore how tone, facial expressions, eye contact, and other elements contribute to the overall success of a performance.
Word coNNecTIoNS
Roots and Affixes
Pantomime contains the Greek roots -mime-, meaning “mimic,” and pan, meaning “all” or “entirely.” Knowing the Greek root -mime- can also help you understand the meaning of the word mimetic (characterized by imitation). Knowing the Greek prefix pan- can also help you understand the meaning of the word panacea (a remedy for all disease or ills).
My Notes
Game 1: Accept-Change-Pass
1. Stand up and form a circle of four to five students.
2. The student whose birthday is closest to today’s date becomes the first actor. He or she should hold up an imaginary box and pull out an imaginary object.
3. After setting the box down, the actor should pretend to use the object without speaking or making a sound. Each person in the group should have a chance to try to identify the object.
4. Once someone correctly identifies the object, the actor should place the object back in the box, pick the box up, and pass it to his or her left.
5. Repeat the process until all group members have had a chance to play the actor’s role.
Game 2: Shadowing
1. Stand up, form pairs, and label yourselves Y and Z.
2. After your teacher calls out an action, the Y students should begin to silently pantomime the action while the Z students copy them. Students Y and Z should look like reflections in a mirror.
3. At the signal, switch roles. This time the Z students should choose their own actions to pantomime as the Y students copy their actions.
Game 3: The Cycle of Life
1. Stand up and form a circle of four to five students.
2. Plan a tableau and then brainstorm ways to role-play the five stages of humans: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. Use sounds—but no words—and imaginative props to enhance your performance.
3. After planning and rehearsing, return to your seat.
4. When it is your group’s turn, form a tableau of ages, mixing up the order. Freeze for a count of ten and then come to life, one by one, with sounds and props. After you perform your role, the class will guess which age you represent.
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