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Ideas for using drama in basic skills
Murder is a warm-up game Michele uses with her students. The group stands in a circle. One person stands in the middle and raises their hand as if holding a weapon and walks towards their chosen victim. The victim needs to make eye contact with someone else in the circle who them has to call out their name to save them before the murderer reaches them.
Hot seating is a way that students can try out a character they might be considering as a role in a play. A chair is placed in the middle of the room. When student sits in the chair, they become the character they want to play.
Using improvisation is a good way of getting students to act things out. For example, standing in a circle and giving students an object. As the object is passed around, each student acts with the prop to demonstrate what they interpret it to be to the rest of the class.
A play… start with an idea
When her students asked Michele if they could do a play, Michele searched the internet for material using key words such as 'drama' and 'lesson plan' and 'free scripts'. Michele considered the interests of the students in her class when it came to deciding on a play. When one of her students was very keen about the film, Titantic, Michele decided to look at it as an idea for a play.
"When we started working on the script, sometimes the lines didn't work, so I encouraged the students to re-write them. We did this as an in-class lesson in writing."
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