{"id":6015,"date":"2021-02-18T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=6015"},"modified":"2021-02-18T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T15:36:41","slug":"introductions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?page_id=6015","title":{"rendered":"Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Introductions<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Katelyn Tullis<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Objective:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will introduce themselves to each other and to some basic theatre principles such as saying \u201cyes, and\u201d and using our bodies to tell stories by playing collaborative games and introducing themselves through objects and tableaus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Prior Experience:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This unit is designed for students with no experience in theatre. Designed for the first day of class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Class Style:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Live Virtual Call.*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>National Standards:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH:Cr2-I.b. Investigate the collaborative nature of the actor, director, playwright, and designers and explore their interdependent roles in a drama\/theatre work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Big Ideas:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stories can be told with our voices as well as our bodies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good theatre makers are collaborators.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Enduring Understandings:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will practice working in a group as they develop the skill of collaboration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will practice communicating ideas or feelings with their body instead of using their voice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will learn to build on the ideas of others (use Yes, And).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Essential Questions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does \u201cgood\u201d collaboration look like?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can I tell stories besides using my words?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Materials<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoom or other online feature with which to communicate virtually<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students need space to stand up and move around<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INTRODUCTION (10 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction of self<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction of what the class will look like<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief introduction of units<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduce class website since things will need to be posted online<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Class expectations (for a drama classroom)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/categories\/201146643\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief tutorial on how to use an online learning device, such as Zoom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and etiquette expected for classroom behavior<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muted during class, camera on, show how to use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115001286183-Nonverbal-feedback-during-meetings\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the hand raise feature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, how to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/203650445-In-meeting-chat\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comment into the chat<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOTE: If you go into Zoom and open the chat, you as the host have the ability to make it so that participants can only chat with the whole class publicly. I think that this would be smart. You open the chat, then click on the three dots to the right of the text bar and a drop down menu shows up.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortunately, Unfortunately Activity (20 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most important things in drama is learning to build on the ideas of others and the story that you are telling. This concept is often referred to as \u201cYes, And.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will play a game of Fortunately, Unfortunately <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamegal.com\/2011\/12\/03\/fortunately-unfortunately\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(rules here)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 As we play, make sure that you build on the ideas of your peers rather than shutting their ideas down.<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possible starting sentences:<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day, my parents bought me the dog I\u2019ve always wanted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One day, I learned that I could fly!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focus on working together, saying yes, and!!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Play two or three rounds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discussion<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you make any discoveries? What?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What observations did you make about saying \u201cYes, And\u201d?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was easy? What was hard? Why was it that way?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What general ideas might one learn from this exercise that\u2019s applicable to collaboration in theatre?\u00a0 Or to life in general?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Object Activity (20 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since this is our first day of class, I want us all to introduce ourselves to each other! We will be working together a lot, so it\u2019s important that we know each other. However, we are going to do this differently than you\u2019ve probably ever done it before!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction of Self<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brainstorm 2 things about yourself (what you like to do, something you like about yourself, a personality trait)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then find an object in the room that you are in to represent that thing.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, I love baking and I might have a cookie, so I could show that to you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure to mute your microphones while you are looking for your items.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brainstorm\u00a0<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Microphones off for 3 minutes, while students find their objects.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Share around the room<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comment into the chat what you think the objects are representing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teacher will ask you to tell us what the objects were representing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tableau Activity (20 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another way we can share about ourselves is through our bodies. In drama, our bodies tell just as much of a story as our words do. A common tool that we use is called a tableau, or a Frozen Image. You simply freeze your body to tell a story. It can be something literal like posing as if you were brushing your teeth to demonstrate your morning routine, or it can be something more abstract. You can use the shape of your body to demonstrate feelings. Something curled up and small might show that you are afraid or turning away from something. Both of these tell stories.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are going to create a tableau together as a class.<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brainstorm with class for 1 minute&#8211;how you would like to create a tableau to express your feelings about starting a new school year.\u00a0 While all the students have been assigned this common theme, each individual is creating their own tableau and together they all create one big tableau.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360000005883-Displaying-participants-in-Gallery-View#:~:text=To%20switch%20from%20active%20speaker,9%20people%20at%20a%20time.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure that everyone is in a gallery view in Zoom, or something similar depending on the platform being used.\u00a0 Explain how that works.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We want to be in gallery view so that we can see the entire class rather than just the person who is speaking.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone make your tableau and freeze for 15 seconds, I want to see what everyone looks like together.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discussion<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What did you learn about storytelling from using your body rather than just your words?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you choose to make a literal or figurative image?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did you come to a decision of what you were going to do with your body?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does this give you ideas of how you can make your own tableaus?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will now work in a group to create a story of loss with tableaus. You will have 7 minutes to come up with 3 tableaux as a group. Everyone will do the same tableaus within your group. Make sure that everyone knows what your three tableaus are and that you practice them and your transitions between the three. When you show them to the rest of the class, I will tell you to show us the first tableau and freeze and then when to move on to the next tableau. It will be easier if you work together as a group to decide what kind of story of loss you want to tell. Remember to say \u201cyes and\u201d!<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walk them through what <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/206476093-Enabling-breakout-rooms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a breakout room<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> looks like and explain your expectations.<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be working. You will check in on the rooms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure that video is always on and that you are listening to each other and saying \u201cYes, And\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work with your group to create a series of tableaus to tell a story of loss.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PERFORMANCE (15 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have students share their tableaus with the rest of the class.<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have everyone who is not showing their tableau turn off your video so that we can focus on those who are sharing their tableaus. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.zoom.us\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360021921032-In-Meeting-Controls#:~:text=Mute%20Participants%20on%20Entry%3A%20Automatically,their%20video%20is%20turned%20off.&amp;text=If%20video%20is%20turned%20off,your%20name%20or%20profile%20picture.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as to how you can hide the non-video participants if you would like to.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Call out the group name of each group before they perform. Tell them to perform their tableau and then talk as a class about their interpretation of the story and what happened.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discussion<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What makes the images from each of the groups interesting to look at? You were looking at a series of images this time around.<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possibly the difference of literal and figurative tableaus<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possibly the mixture of shapes (tall and low, scrunched and extended)?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did you make your decisions about how to shape your tableau?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What other discoveries did you make about telling stories with your body?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductions By Katelyn Tullis \u00a0 Objective: Students will introduce themselves to each other and to some basic theatre principles such as saying \u201cyes, and\u201d and using our bodies to tell stories by playing collaborative games and introducing themselves through objects and tableaus. \u00a0 Prior Experience: This unit is designed for students with no experience in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"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\/6015"}],"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=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6016,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6015\/revisions\/6016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}