Season Storytelling Activity
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Goals:
- Encourage students to collaborate effectively as a group to create a presentation using visual and performing arts to represent the season of their birth.
- Give students an opportunity to creatively use words, movement, images, and sounds to express themselves.
- Foster a team building environment.
- Demonstrate how the audience can interpret a performance without text.
- Creative problem solving.
- Learn to work with symbols and metaphors.
- Incorporate all types of learning, those with special needs
Activity Preparation:
Discuss group work, brainstorming, and collaboration etiquitte and the role of an audience with the class. No good ideas, bad ideas, just ideas. Brainstorm had no boundries, everyone was free to share their ideas in their style. Do warm up Improv Activities
Materials:
- For students
- Paper
- Markers
- Props in room
- Your own bodies, clothes, and voices
- For facilitator
- A camera to take pictures and/or video of group presenations
Activity Prompt:
What words, images, sounds, and movements can your group use to represent your season?
- Step 1: Explain to students they will be working in groups to collaboratively construct a presentation that would represent the season of their birth. (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer)
- Step 2: Sort students into groups by the seasons of their birth.
- Step 3: Every group has 10-20 minutes to brainstorm, develop, and rehearse their presentation. Length depends on needs of students and desired outcomes by facilitator.
- Step 4: At the end of the 10-20 minutes, each group will have two minutes to perform their presentation for the class.
- Step 5: At the end of each presentation. The class can give feeback on what they thought of the presentation and/or guess what season the group was presenting. Audience can give evidence of their interpretation.
- Step 6: Reflection, discussion, learning and leadership styles. Compare and contrast presentation styles, specifically whether there is dialogue, storytelling (linear or elliptical)
Group Presentations
Teaching Artist Institute, November 7, 2009 at Cal Shakes Rehearsal Hall in Berkeley Videos available here:
Winter
Video available here: http://oerarts.ning.com/video/season-storytelling-2
Fall
Video available here: http://oerarts.ning.com/video/season-storytelling-1
Spring
Video available here: http://oerarts.ning.com/video/season-storytelling
Videos and photos from other trainings available on the OER ArtsCollab
Teaching Standards:
Subjects:
Multi-media, performance art (elements of surprise, narrative, character development, different approaches), science,
Variations of groups:
Perceived birth order, temperment, animal you identify with, geometric shape, favorite rainbow color,
Activity Modifications:
- Other themes for presentations: Animals, landforms, text from a book,
- Groups create a short film using props, editing, lighting, pacing,
- Adding cultural elements (holidays, festivals)
- Mask making and costume creation
- Incorporating creative writing
