We want to collectively explore pivotal moments: major, life-changing events that have placed us on the course we are on in our own lives today. The narrative of those pivotal moments usually starts with loss and fear. Then, from that fear, sacrifices are made, choices are made, and we come out with more insight and knowledge than before. In short, some things are found through pivotal moments just as some things are lost through them. We want to collectively explore the theme of loss, and how pivotal moments either bring us to, out, or through that feelings of loss. We also want to explore the idea of being found after being lost, and how those pivotal moments helped us to find certain aspects of life, or to be found ourselves. Within this exploration, we also want to explore the orbits of our life in connection with others. What are our individual pivotal experiences? How are they unique and different from one another and show our individual loss/found development? How are they similar to each other and show our collective narrative of loss and found-ness? How do current pivotal moments that we experience together (such as Covid-19) collide, gravitate, or separate us to each other and ourselves?
Creating with Words: Blackout Poetry This form of poetry would be exciting to implement into a unit about script analysis. After performing a thorough reading and analysis of a play, the students choose a page of the script to do blackout poetry that illustrates a main theme of the play Creating with Images: Emoji Story An emoji story could be used to assess if students understand the plot to a play we read in class. Additionally, it can be used when rehearsing monologues to show which tactics or actions the student will use with each sentence. Creating with Sounds: Song Catching During a unit on devising, the students research songs by asking their peers outside of class what songs they think of when given a specific theme or emotion. For example, if the devised piece is about over-use of technology, they could ask their friends what songs they think about when they hear the word "FOMO" "anxiety" "techno" or "overwhelming." And then th...
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