Dramatic Activity

March 1, 2016
Brianna Brady
Title of Activity:
No you cant take me
Objective:
Teach students confidence, pantomime and critical thinking skills
Target Age:
K- Middle School [Will work for any age group, and will have varying sophistication]
Number of Participants:
At least two groups of 2+ at minimal, but can be played with a wide variety of
students.
Room Arrangement:
Any room set-up with room for a group discussion
Materials:
Notecards with assigned room, however, this is not necessary
Source: childdrama.com
Description of Activity:
Students will be split into groups
Each group is given a room in a house [kitchen, bedroom, living room,
garage, basement]
Each student in the group chooses an object that would be located in that
room and becomes that object
Students must brainstorm If-then statements that might occur if they were
taken away from their room
Join back together and one group as a time the teacher exclaims Look at all
this junk, (selects and object/student to take) and says Ill take this away!
Student then replies with No you cant take me! Teacher responds Why
and student then says if you take me then_________ or just
because___________
After all the students go then the audience or rest of the class must guess
which room and what those objects might be in that room.
Curricular Connection:
Creativity- When creating sentences and trying to figure out why they cannot be
taken away from that room children will use their sense of creativity.
Sentence Types- If-Then sentences and even about what makes a sentence
complete can be integrated into this activity.
Variations:
You can make variations with generalized categories using any subject area, and

alter it to meet that curriculum. You could do things such as body parts, rainforest,
books, immigrations, etc.