Creative Dramatics in the Classroom Special Activities

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Description:

Creative Dramatics in the Classroom challenges students to demonstrate what they are thinking in an immediate, relevant, and creative manner. This three-part unit encourages students to listen and comprehend, use effective body language, and imagine how other people think and respond. The final lessons challenge students to analyze, synthesize, and then dramatize.

Objectives include

• To exercise the imagination
• To practice, develop, and demonstrate communication skills: active listening, effective speaking, and meaningful movement
• To participate in and foster appreciation for all forms of expression: past and present, multicultural, and universal
• To engage in characterization To experience the creative process

Activities:

Activities prompt spontaneous, original, individual, imaginative, and demonstrative reactions based on ideas or feelings. Lessons teach students that human communication is a process of engagement between one mind and another, resulting in a creative response. The classroom becomes a language laboratory, with experiments in creativity expressed by voice and movement based on ideas and people found in literature and history.