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Mr. Dunne

14th January

Drama 2

Before we start  Let’s get your opinions. Concerning bullying,

finish the following sentences:

I think... I don’t know... I want to know...

Objective  This section is all building up to you creating your own

play with settings, dialogues and actions.  Today we are going to make actions fun.

Write this down:  When reading drama, we have to imagine the actor

saying the lines.  It is more interesting if that actor is moving while

talking, perhaps acting out the words.

Warm-up  Lines are going to pop up on the board. Students have to

read the line silently and then say it aloud while doing the action.

 Example: I put my hands up like a boxer to defend myself.

 He poked me in the eye. It really hurt so I put my hand

over it.  Somebody walked dog poop into the class. It smelled

really bad so I covered my nose.  She lost my pen. I could have killed her.

 He lost my phone. I was going crazy. Why do I lend

people things?  She found my pen and phone. I was so happy.

Through those samples  Students have displayed pain, disgust, anger, insanity

and joy.  You have placed actions unto words.

Our second play - Bullies  I am going to split the class into four groups.  Stryk

Kuff

Grynd

Boot.

 There are roughly 90 lines in this play, 22 per character, many

of which are single words.

 Examine your character’s dialogue. Write what he is doing

while saying these lines. Do this on the sheet. If you would like a second sheet, I have spares so do not worry.

Examples  Line one – “It’ll be great when the bus gets here”  Anything from: jumping up and down, arms folded,

bus driver dance.

(Not ‘standing normally’ however).

 Pg 18 – “Like a girl” – perhaps a difficult line.

 If you desire, look at the previous line “He’ll be crying” and be

inspired that.

 Pg 19 – “Me dad” – also hard. Maybe pointing, beating chest,

flexing muscles.

It is time to act.  Stryk

Kuff

Grynd

Boot.

 12 voleenteers – 4 students read each page then give the

next 4 a turn.

Question  Write a review of this play.

 Mention the wonderful actors, the story,

THE ACTIONS and what you thought. “Reference the dialogue / text / sheet”.

Next week’s play: Fish (page 6) Homework  Read the play and summarise it in five sentences.  Cast: Joey and Goldie.  We’ll be examining story structure next week.