Drama Reflection

I definitely enjoyed this unit! I guess I always thought that incorporating drama into the classroom takes a lot of time, but it doesn't take much more than you would usually use. Plus, it gets the students active so they will actually remember what they learned about. It's hard to decide which activities I will use the most in my classroom. I have really enjoyed the progressive story exercises where everyone comes up with a portion of the story. They help with creativity and flow of a story. I also enjoyed some of the process drama activities. I don't know that I would do as many activities as we did in class for any one book, but I think one or two activities makes the book for fun and memorable for the students. There are many different reasons for incorporating drama into the curriculum. It makes learning more memorable for the students, it exposes them to different types of drama, and it gives them something different to experience and work with.

The process drama activity was a lot of fun. I actually did most of the work for my group. I told them about Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot and they thought it sounded like a good idea so I got the book, but because I was the only one with the book, I was  put in charge of coming up with the activities. The other girls in my group did help me with lesson plan outline, so that was very nice. I loved all of the other group presentations! They all picked really fun books and had really fun activities planned!