Oct 16, 2009
Session 3 Drama for Literacy
TIR using Forest Child
Imagination abandoned by Reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders. Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
Game Openers: Concentrator: Key words concentration. Rules. Step in count .if not done last week then Fizz Buzz. [1] VGI .5 senses. [2] Keeper of the Keys . [3] Trad picture examination. Small/big. Sims /diffs. Use the cover picture as base.
Read the story or, even better, tell it .
Spread out the blanket. Light the candle. Walk around the room and see each eye. Then sit and watch the candle. Start the story.
· In voice of a forest animal. Against the hunter.
· Make a list of the 5 main events: Orally
· Using the blanket: make the group into 5’s. Then ask each group to name the five main points of the story. Then ask each group to name the five most important places for the Forest child. Then each group names ONE. Write/Draw on PAPER and place it on the blanket. When each group has named one- then each person takes a slip of paper and makes the unmentioned things in the story. Unmentioned places things. Hidden things. Secret things. Like hidden or forbidden path.
In five groups.
1. Show or Make a map of the main events and where they happened. What were the special places for the FC.
2. List the Important scenes in symbol ( pics, not words)
3. Signs on the landscape: what would a traveller see as they pass through the Valley.E.g. Danger! ( where would it be put) Ask pupils to suggest others.
4. Time line with pupils drawn images cut out OR Comic strip;
5. Interior of cave ( One secret object or photo etc)
6. Man Village ( Mapping)
7. Hunters house( Mapping- character exploration)
Tableau Worst moment for the forest child: groups of 4. Building sympathy for the child. Read images as anti-hunter. Question the Child only –build up against the Hunter.
· Hot seat the hunter. Role Motivation: Concentrate on the way the hunter should or should not have behaved. Ask for questions in advance. Rehears how the participants will tackle him If he gets angry then we won’t find out-so how should we question him to not make him angry. Take suggestions: Indirectly, slowly in.
· Raise issues. Don’t reach a decision.
· How will it end? Five years time. First day at school
· Get into groups. Decide on a happy end or a sad one or a mixture.
· Make a play. Only one line each at the most two.
· Identify Themes, Underlying question, poss. other TIR’s
Imagination abandoned by Reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of their wonders. Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
Game Openers: Concentrator: Key words concentration. Rules. Step in count .if not done last week then Fizz Buzz. [1] VGI .5 senses. [2] Keeper of the Keys . [3] Trad picture examination. Small/big. Sims /diffs. Use the cover picture as base.
Read the story or, even better, tell it .
Spread out the blanket. Light the candle. Walk around the room and see each eye. Then sit and watch the candle. Start the story.
· In voice of a forest animal. Against the hunter.
· Make a list of the 5 main events: Orally
· Using the blanket: make the group into 5’s. Then ask each group to name the five main points of the story. Then ask each group to name the five most important places for the Forest child. Then each group names ONE. Write/Draw on PAPER and place it on the blanket. When each group has named one- then each person takes a slip of paper and makes the unmentioned things in the story. Unmentioned places things. Hidden things. Secret things. Like hidden or forbidden path.
In five groups.
1. Show or Make a map of the main events and where they happened. What were the special places for the FC.
2. List the Important scenes in symbol ( pics, not words)
3. Signs on the landscape: what would a traveller see as they pass through the Valley.E.g. Danger! ( where would it be put) Ask pupils to suggest others.
4. Time line with pupils drawn images cut out OR Comic strip;
5. Interior of cave ( One secret object or photo etc)
6. Man Village ( Mapping)
7. Hunters house( Mapping- character exploration)
Tableau Worst moment for the forest child: groups of 4. Building sympathy for the child. Read images as anti-hunter. Question the Child only –build up against the Hunter.
· Hot seat the hunter. Role Motivation: Concentrate on the way the hunter should or should not have behaved. Ask for questions in advance. Rehears how the participants will tackle him If he gets angry then we won’t find out-so how should we question him to not make him angry. Take suggestions: Indirectly, slowly in.
· Raise issues. Don’t reach a decision.
· How will it end? Five years time. First day at school
· Get into groups. Decide on a happy end or a sad one or a mixture.
· Make a play. Only one line each at the most two.
· Identify Themes, Underlying question, poss. other TIR’s
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