How about a little Drama?

Guidelines:

What's the value of using drama?

Source #1 and ESL

Source #2

Source #3

Source #4

Dealing with the issues of group work and "acting"...

* Dealing with Disagreements
* Making the room safe to "act"
* Rehearsing or practicing
*Check vocabulary / pronunciations
*No accents

I. Role Playing

A. Meet the Press: How bad was slavery, really?

Directions for role playing

Analyze the Source

Note Taking

Debating Slavery

 

The Abolitionists

Walker
Garrison
Douglass
Grimke
Truth

Pro Slavery

Calhoun
Robinson
McDuffie
Hammon

B. Town Meeting: American Revolution

Notetaking

Video: Declaration of Independence

 

II. Reader's Theater

Martin Luther King, Jr.

*Immigration Experience

Power Point: Immigrants from ggorospe

*Declaration of Independence

*Declaration of Sentiments
Video: Bad Romance..Women's Suffrage

*Mexican American War: small group theater

Improvised Drama: Debates (pair sharing)
e.g. women rights, worker-boss rights, etc.