DRAMA REFLECTION 8

This week our drama course includes dramatization technıques.

Dramatization can creates a context, it can be from the real life. We do
improvisation in group work. In order to provide effective drama activities,
there are musts. These are characters, event and setting.

Characters must be defined clearly and we give role cards to students

acting out. And in these role cards, everything must be clear. And also we must
use opposite character, if the characters have special language patterns, it will
be great. Setting is also important. While doing an improvization, we can create
an original atmosphere. I mean it may not be necessary to cover all of the area
with special things. Sometimes a hat, a cloth, any object explain the setting.
There must be a balance between the setting and accessories. Event is also
clearly explained. Students can understand it, it must not be confusing.

We will have drama activities, so we talk about what we must to do or not.

For example; use role cards, use narrator, use accessories, don’t interrup the
activity ( I like this point very much.), while students are in a group work,monitor
them and have a control on all of them. We use this drama activities to teach
somethings to the learners but I really wonder how it is. Because the procedure
is not clear for me, unfortunately I couldn’t understand it very well. And also I
am the last student doing the drama presentation, I mean it may not good for
us. In fact I have a handout which explains this procedure and the teacher told
about it but If I watch one drama presentation, it is understood by me. I mean
I focuse on my visual intelligence.