Students will demonstrate ability to communicate the contextual ideas of their casebooks by hosting a mock post-performance talk-back between an \u201caudience\u201d (classmates) and a dramaturg (themselves.)<\/p>\n
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“The Big Candy Jar”<\/p>\n
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Place \u201cThe Big Candy Jar\u201d [which is quite large and holds regular-sized candy bars] on a table or desk at the front of the classroom. [Alternative: cookies, brownies, Krispy Kreme donuts, etc.]<\/p>\n
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Note: The teacher may choose to allow students to volunteer, be called on, or to sign up on a schedule to present their talk-backs. If necessary, the talk-backs will continue into the next class meeting.
1. Introduce the talk-back process:
During the talk-backs:
o Each student will introduce him\/herself as the dramaturg of [title of play, and who the play was written by].
o Each student will then take questions from the audience for a period of 5-7 minutes. The talk-backs will be timed; at 5 minutes the instructor will give a silent signal that there are 2 minutes remaining; at 7 minutes, the instructor will invite the dramaturg to close the session.
\u00b7 During each talk-back, the student leading the discussion will call on people who volunteer by raised hand to ask a question. (If necessary, the teacher may choose to ask the first question to get a talk-back started.)
o Each student will close his\/her session by saying something like, \u201cWe are out of time\/Our time is about up\/etc. Thank you for attending our talk-back of [title of play].\u201d Alternatives of this basic closure are acceptable and preferred.<\/p>\n
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Review\/assessment: Students will display their casebooks for their classmates and participate both as a dramaturg and an audience member in a mock talk-back.
Briefly review with the students what constitutes audience etiquette: listening, raising hands and waiting to be called on, no talking out of turn or amongst each other, applause at the close of a performance [without cat-calls].<\/p>\n
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2. Casebook presentations
o Students will display their casebooks on tables or desks for their classmates to examine.
o Students will circulate around the room and briefly examine each of the casebooks. They are recommended to make notations about questions and\/or observations they may have about each of the casebooks. They should each be prepared with at least one question that specifically addresses\/relates to each play (although there will not be time to get to every question from every student); these questions are in addition to the 4-5 questions they wrote on their lists in the previous class. During the actual talk-backs they may ask other pertinent questions as they come to mind; the writing exercise is to engage students in the world of each play. Allow 10-20 minutes for this activity, depending on the number of casebooks being examined.<\/p>\n
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3. Mock Talk-back: Students present a mock talk-back of their plays to the class.
o Each student will present and moderate a mock talk-back following the guidelines introduced at the beginning of class.<\/p>\n
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4. Casebook Submission
o At the end of each mock talk-back, students will hand in their casebooks for evaluation and final grading.
\u00b7 At the close of class, each student who has presented a talk-back may choose something from \u201cThe Big Candy Jar\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Objective Students will demonstrate ability to communicate the contextual ideas of their casebooks by hosting a mock post-performance talk-back between an \u201caudience\u201d (classmates) and a dramaturg (themselves.) Materials Needed “The Big Candy Jar” Lesson Directions Anticipatory Set\/Hook Place \u201cThe Big Candy Jar\u201d [which is quite large and holds regular-sized candy bars] on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1535\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}