The use of drama to interpret poetry/prose Exploring Teaching

Strategies

Interpretation of Poetryof the Emotional character

poetry Give opportunity to students to enjoy emotionally Emphasise the role of reader as interpreter. Choice of poetry.

Structuring of Drama Activities

Convention The approaches used in the exploration and creation of character and can emphasize various theatrical possibilities.

Description of the lesson

Level: Form 4 and 5 students (QWERTYUIOP short story). Language learning aims: Reading: The prose Speaking: asking questions, describing characters and their appearance, life experience, problems and worried, wishes and plans.

Writing: Suggested writing task Lucy short message to Ms Broome A description of Lucy's appearance. A magazine article (The Haunted Typewriting) An entry in Lucy's diary.

Lesson. Silent Reading

Students read the poem on their own and then the unknown vocabulary was explained.

Students in Role
Group Work Role play

Diary: Writing a role

All the students in the role of a character

Still image
The students were divided into groups and each group prepared a few still images depicting some crucial moments.

Hot seating
Involves taking a person out of a dramatic fictional situation and placing him/her in the hot seat so that he/she can be questioned about the events of the story.

Meeting
The students got together and, through discussion, they tried to find some solution to the problem.

Writing activities
The homework that resulted from the lesson was to write a newspaper article which could appear either in the quality press.