Suitable For A Classroom Setting
Included in this package is:
Air Raid Shelter - A Series of 3 Lessons
In these lessons the students will go through the emotional experiences of wartime families threatened by bombing raids. Optional teacher-in-role technique and use of sound effects.
Key Drama skills are improvisation, role and character, tableau, thought tracking,class discussion and reflection, mime and movement. Dramatic tension is also a key element.
Details of this lessons are:
Making configuration of the shelters and describing the atmosphere inside them.
Family tableaux awaiting the siren. Comparing family activities to the present day.
Thought tracking family members emotions.
Improvised family interactions - small scenes - before and after the siren.
Landscape of emotions on seeing the devastation. Use of thought tracking great technique to verbalise emotion.
Into Literacy - Describing experience of an air raid - inside the shelters and then outside. Good idea for presenting the writing.
Evacuees - A Series of 6 Lessons
It is recommended that your students have some introductory knowledge of the topic prior to taking part in the lesson.
Lessons work well following the Air Raid lessons as families and citizens emerge from their shelters to face the devastation. Students will understand the thought processes behind Evacuation from the physical activity.
Using tableau as way into the activity and responding to given sets of circumstances the students will learn to assess a serious situation, to empathise with others and to make contributions to helping one's neighbour.
The Lessons Details Are As Follows:
LESSON 1
Visualisation Circle Exercise Emerging From the Shelters - Setting Up Family Characters, Tableau, Thought Tracking, Reading Scenarios, Presentation Use Of Starter lines Group Improvisation and Discussion, Letter Writing To Friends and Relatives, Sharing Written Work
LESSON 2
Safety In the Countryside Discussion, Corridor of Thought, Exploring the Emotional Response To Evacuation, Packing bags, Making Lists, Using Real Examples of Clothing Lists, Comparisons To Present Day, Creating Confrontation Scenes as emotions run high.
LESSON 3
Going To the Station - Movement Section and Tableaux, Movement Presentation suitable for Assembly Piece (Video included), Use of Pre-Recorded Voice Overs to stimulate writing/improvisation tasks.
LESSON 4
Making and designing Posters, Host Family Scenes, Arriving In the Countryside, Responding To Problems, Use again of Voice Recording materials - Listening and Reading
LESSON 5
The New Family - First Impressions from all involved, Creating Tensions within Scenes, showing work and giving feedback.
LESSON 6
Listening and Scripting, Hot Seating, Discussion, Post card/letters- writing or improvisation. Going Home - comparing emotions.
VIDEO DEMONSTRATION AS A POSSIBLE ASSEMBLY OR PRESENTATION PIECE
CREATING DIALOGUES AND INTO LITERACY
Also in this package you will get voice recorded audio of possible Evacuee scenarios with the full dialogue text included and Into Literacy follow-ups.
Your students will have great fun creating their own voice overs for this - an excellent way to do something a bit different to consolidate learning and to really enter the worlds of with the child evacuees of the time.
There are 5 different sections of the Voice Overs as follows:
On The Train - Evacuees talking together - Into Scripting and Recording
At the Hall - Evacuees being allocated to families - Into Scripting and Recording
First Impressions - Into Diary Entries
Host Children First Impressions - Scripts
Evacuees Thoughts On The Host Families - Into writing Postcards
The Dialogues can be used as the basis for Interviews and even making a Radio programme.
Useful Links are also included.
DOWNLOAD TASTER EXAMPLES OF THESE LESSONS AND THE RECORDED DIALOGUES BELOW
