FIOLINA ELFAJRI (18018126)

KHAIRIYAH NADHIFA. AR (18018135)

IKHFA AZ ZAHRA (18018100)

Summary Of The Dramatic Method Of Teaching

CHAPTER 5

Harriet drew that the students really likes the Shakespear’s works. It was because they
know the good historical drama source, and they found it in Shakespear’s works with poetry,
songs, and music. Harriet said that it was the students who really excited to act the play, and it is
not the teacher. The students even bought the Shakespear’s book in order to act the play. Thus,
Harriet said that the male students like to play the historical drama, whereas the female students
prefer a romantical one. However, at first the students found the complete plays too lengthy for
their purpose and the wording too difficult. Then, once more, their ingenuity came to their aid
and they discovered how to abridge and adapt Shakespeare to their own use. They began with "
Henry V."
Harriet then told that there is a student who found his own source to complete their own
act. That student, Ernest looked very happy because he found it. As the result, Harriet concluded
that the fact of Ernest found a great at the same time difficult for students at that age is really a
great improvement. Also, the incident illustrates that the dramatic method of teaching shows, or
rather leads to, the right way of using the textbook as a book of reference, voluntarily
approached, rather than a book the contents of which have to be committed to memory in stated
doses.
Therefore, Harriet suggested that “If we can give the child a taste for good literature
while still a pupil in the elementary school, we shall have opened the door by which he can, if he
will, attain the highest. With a literature such as ours it is surely our duty to use such methods as
will bring about this result.
The fact that naturally the plays in school brought forth an accompanying handicraft and
art of their own. Hie curious part of the resulting drawings was the fact that they showed costume
and scenery as it ought to be, and not as seen in the make-believe plays. I fancy this brought
forth their ingenuity more, and had a greater educational value, than formal lessons in handicrafts
—that is, for elementary-school children. It set them experimenting at any rate, and thus they
found out their own weakness of method and ignorance of technique. It seemed, indeed, as if
dramatizing lessons touched some human interest which must express itself in every possible
form of art. Another point which was brought out more particularly in connection with the
Shakespearean plays, in which the children spoke the lines verbatim, was the habit of the small
children of the chorus in arming themselves with copies of the play in progress, and constituting
themselves " prompters."
 The advantages or the value of drama technique in the Shakespeare classroom has
become widely recognized. It prepares students to be better audiences. Studying Shakespeare is
important because his works are rich and they can enrich a reader's life in many ways. For
instance, his works are rich in the English language and are a good source of learning language.
In conclusion, Harriet said that the dramatic method of teaching makes a great
improvement in students initiative. We can see that in the way of male and female students
which are being really interested in Shakespear’s works can found their own source to complete
the act and also found their own costume to act their own play. Then, Harriet also suggested that
the more we give the best literature works to the students, the sooner they will get the best result
for their next educational improvement.

Comments:
So, the methods through Shakespearen Play in drama for teaching english is really
efficient because students assumed that through Shakespear's works, learning language
especially English is more fun.
Students are really excited to act and play the roles, wether it is a historical or romantical. The
male students prefer historical while the females students prefer romantical. According to Harriet
that suggested “If we can give the child a taste for good literature while still a pupil in the
elementary school, we shall have opened the door by which he can, if he will, attain the highest.
With a literature such as ours it is surely our duty to use such methods as will bring about this
result. Therefore, this method works well to the students.