Drama: 2/27,28/13

Guiding Q

• How do we evaluate a performance?

Activities

• Begin performances for those who did not perform at Olustee.
• Next project begins - Story Telling
• Assign the following
• Informal research: Students may choose from among the following choices
• Story telling qualities, processes, techniques
• Role of story telling in society - primitive to current
• Specific story tellers
• Personal story
• Students are to create a story that is original with them. Should be over 1 minute long.
• Published story
• Students are to tell a published story in their own words as though they were the narrator or part of the story.
• This can be a short story, an excerpt from a book, a movie or other published work
• Notes
• The goal of story telling is to gain the emotion of the story tied to the quality of the story, and all the acting skills possible that will draw the audience into the story