Multimodal Portfolio- Dance and Drama

RE: The create your own civilization through various objects activity 13 most important thinking tools that have been recognized as evidence of creative thought! Observing Imaging (recalling or creating images) Abstracting (paring down complicated things to simple principles) Recognizing patterns Forming patterns  Analogizing (realizing that 2 apprarently different things share important properties) Body Thinking (thinking that occurs while moving muscles) Empathizing (losing yourself in things they are studying) Dimensional Thinking (taking from a 2D to 3D to more)   Modeling (making small sketches to create a larger piece of art, creating etudes to create a choreography etc.) Playing (challenging limitations, childlike joy, irreverence for conventional procedure) Transforming (process of translating between one too for thinking and another; between imagination and formal languages of communication) Synthesizing (an integration of knowledge where above tra...

Nations/ Europeans Activity In this activity, we explored different points of view through the use of role play, brainstorming and tableaux. This activity integrates social studies because it explores the complex relationship between First Nations and Europeans. Through drama, students critically reflect on this relationship and perspectives of the two different points of view. This lesson begins with groups being assigned the two roles: European and First Nations. Groups are then asked to outline a person on a large sheet of paper. They will reflect on the feelings of the character and write words associated with feelings inside the character. Whereas, they will write about outside influences to the character in the outside portion of the character. After students have time to reflect on each character, they will come together to create a tableaux whereby they will depict a scene between the two. Each student will take a character and once tapped by the teacher, the s...

For my practicum, I was placed in a Core French Grade 7 classroom. I had started a food unit and I noticed that majority of the students were sitting at their desks. So, I wanted to find activities for them to do that moved them out of their chairs. I wanted them to communicate in French which I found many did not want to do because they were not confident in their French speaking ability. So, I thought back to drama as an excellent tool to get students to participate and engage with each other as well as the French language. The lesson I found was from the edugains website. They use the drama technique of role playing to get students to practice French vocabulary and expressions through the role of greeting people in a market, shopping and selling goods. In this case, drama enhanced my lesson by providing students an opportunity to practice their speaking and listening skills. Click picture to access resource (Edugains) The learning goals for this lesson were: (LG's ta...