Frist Drama Class and Last?




Even though this was a fun class and I like it a lot, the class was very disorganized and very confusing when she gave instruction. But I did, however, enjoy the best I could with my time there.
Last week she asks everyone to come in as fairy tale characters because we are currently studying characters and costumes. Also, we will be dressing up again for tomorrow's class. Once dressed she told us what to do, I will ask you to come up here and tell me a bit about yourself (your character). The goal is to be a character everyone recognizes.
Example “I love books and find it difficult to connect with the other people in my town. The person I love lives in a castle and has an obsession with a rose… he also has a bit of temper. Who am I?”
of course, know a lot about Disney I know right away, but she also made it easy. So I was the first to raise my hand and guessed Bell. And yes it was corrected, this part was a lot of fun. But at the same time frustrating because a lot of kids want to guess like me and raise their hands. Sadly some never even tried because first to raise her hand get to answer, I wish she did something different from this method. To prove my point how one kid could dominate the guessing I raise my hand two more times. Faster than anyone, sadly I was correct the first one to raise their hands gets to guess. The last time I raise my hand I also said you can skip me if you want, she did and did the next child. But to see this part being hard for not one child to speak but for a lot of children is not easy.
Next, she wanted to quickly slip in the assignment for our next class, little did she know it was not quick. She also said I was hoping to do this today but we ran out of time… I want you to teach pair up. This tells me more that she does not really plan ahead much, yes with a lot of kids and RL going I understand it is hard to keep on track but still, at least you have a plan.
The assignment is to create a little skit, It’s a very short type of play that usually takes place in only one scene. Like what she said kind of like a slice of life, which was nice to compare for understanding. But here where all hades broke loose, she asks us to all pair up with someone, then she will assign our group with a scene. She starts to assign the scene but was not even say the names or who it was belonging to. So it took an extra 30 or so minutes to get all squared out. In the end, that class was more stressed trying to figure the thing out than fun.
Suggestion for this class, try and make a small group of us, like a small group/team so we can do the daily assignment in the group. One it will be a little faster and two there be more chance for the kids to raise their hands and guess. Another thing is to try and give the assignment out please put it in a notecard and send it to everyone, let them read it. Then when we are ready you can go through a list of children and ask them who they will like as a partner then give them their part of the assignment.

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