Body Objects Lesson: Creating Settings with Details
Overview: students collaborate with a partner using negotiation strategies and applying concentration, imagination, imitation, and transformation skills.
Objectives: students collaborate with a partner using negotiation strategies; apply concentration, imagination, imitation, and transformation skills; identify story elements.
Students transform their bodies into objects and then into settings with a team of other actors for the story B.J.’s Journey. Students work alone, with a partner, and then with a team to use a variety of collaborative and planning strategies to complete the story. The students focus on C.I.T.I. (concentration, imagination, transformation, imitation) competence and work with the actor’s tools (mind, body, voice) to prepare them for integrated work. Download B.J.'s Journey from our story library to complete the materials. When teams are ready to decide who on their team will play B.J., remind them about the Ask, Don’t Tell rule from our Introductory Lessons as the beginning negotiation strategy to use when making a decision.
This FREE drama lesson can be used with one of these additional stories to create a drama: The Dreamer, The Sacred Scarab Root or The Mountain.
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