This week proved to be a lot more productive than last.\u00a0 I would imagine a huge factor in that is the level of comfort in our students.\u00a0 Last week it seemed as though they were warming up to us and the idea of their acting in a play as a whole, which is something I can absolutely appreciate.<\/p>\n
I feel like our ability to effectively and comfortably communicate with our students saw a huge improvement between the first and second weeks.\u00a0 It became immediately apparent that we would not be teaching the students\u00a0Macbeth<\/em>.\u00a0 Instead, we’d be teaching them a really interesting tale about greed that is filled with “magic,” British royalty and action.\u00a0 What I mean is that we’ve realized how important it is going to be to frame everything we do in a way that we think will interest or excite out students.<\/p>\n This week we added another very enthusiastic student, though we are waiting for a few more.\u00a0 We’ve sort of rewarded those who have been committed from the beginning with the opportunity to choose roles before the others.\u00a0 Framing the roles in a fun and interesting way is as important as our framing of the action in the story.\u00a0 More than being interested with the plot and themes of the entire play, the students really only need to be interested in the role they are playing.\u00a0 It seems as though they started to recognize this as a possible opportunity for expression and some freedom and they are growing more excited.\u00a0 I am looking forward to what this upcoming week, and our newly added students, will have in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week proved to be a lot more productive than last.\u00a0 I would imagine a huge factor in that is the level of comfort in our students.\u00a0 Last week it seemed as though they were warming up to us and the idea of their acting in a play as a whole, which is something I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}