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This resource guide enables teachers and leaders to explore drama as a mode of learning. Through this collaborative art form, teachers and students can act out, reflect upon and transform the story of Translations, allowing their individual experiences with the material to give them a better appreciation of the play. In addition, by engaging with one another, students utilize skills that are vital to communication and interpretive analysis.
Drama-in-Education seeks to synthesize the activities of creative drama, arts-based curricula and theater convention into experiences aimed at developing imagination, awareness of self and others, aesthetic taste and life skills. Often these goals are achieved through the examination of a particular theme or topic, which contributes to critical thinking about the world in which we live. By providing structures and contexts which both excite the interest of participants and call for creative problem-solving, Drama-in-Education promotes deeper thinking about a wide variety of issues.
This guide has been designed for teachers to utilize drama methods in an exploration of the themes and situations presented in the play. We encourage you to adapt these lessons and activities to your individual teaching strategies and curricular needs, and thereby discover the importance and power of drama in the classroom.
The following questions and activities are designed to help students prepare for the performance, and then to build on their impressions and interpretations afterwards. |
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