{"id":1229,"date":"2015-03-16T19:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedb-wp.byu.edu\/?page_id=1229"},"modified":"2015-05-15T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T19:47:12","slug":"stage-directions-twister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Stage Directions Twister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Students will demonstrate their awareness and skills of stage directions and audience by playing &#8220;Twister&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Materials Needed<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>painter&#8217;s tape<\/p>\n<p>floor space<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>**<\/strong> This activity will help your students develop an awareness of stage directions and where to go onstage.\u00a0\u00a0It will also help them break any closeness issues as Twister is a very close contact game.**<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Lesson Directions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Before Class:\u00a0\u00a0Using masking tape or painter\u2019s tape (it comes up easier), mark out nine squares on the floor.\u00a0\u00a0Each square should be about 2\u2019 x 2\u2019 and come together to form a grid like the picture. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, make labels that read \u201cAUDIENCE,\u201d \u201cUL,\u201d \u201cUR,\u201d \u201cUC,\u201d \u201cR,\u201d \u201cC,\u201d \u201cL,\u201d \u201cDR,\u201d \u201cDC,\u201d and \u201cDL.\u201dIf you have a large class or a class that is co-ed, you may want to make multiple grids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Show students the different positions on stage by placing the stage directions in the correct boxes\u00a0\u00a0based on where you place the \u201cAUDIENCE\u201d card on the outside of the box.\u00a0\u00a0Explain that stage directions always work from the point of view of the actor facing the audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have one student stand on each side of the grid.\u00a0\u00a0Place the audience card on one side of the grid.\u00a0\u00a0Be sure the stage direction cards are still in place.\u00a0\u00a0Call out different stage directions in Twister-like fashion such as \u201cRight Hand Up Left\u201d or \u201cLeft Foot Center.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0If a student goes to the wrong spot or falls, he\/she is out until only one is remaining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a few rounds, removed the stage direction labels and use only the \u201cAUDIENCE\u201d card.\u00a0\u00a0This will be more difficult, but students will soon become more aware.\u00a0\u00a0After each round or even in the middle of a round, you can move the \u201cAUDIENCE\u201d to a different side of the grid to make it more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Assessment<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Participation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This activity\/lesson could be followed up with some kind of &#8220;twister quiz&#8221; in partnerships or individually where a &#8220;route&#8221; is called out and enacted on the grid.\u00a0 Points could be awarded for each correct movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will demonstrate their awareness and skills of stage directions and audience by playing &#8220;Twister&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}