{"id":5984,"date":"2021-02-19T19:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2021-02-19T20:23:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:23:35","slug":"three-little-pigs-by-becca-cardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"Three Little Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Three Little Pigs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> \u00a0Becca Cardon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Objective:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will be able to revise and improve a scene by reenacting the three times the wolf tries to blow down a house in the story of the Three Little Pigs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>National Arts Standards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TH:Cr3.1.4.a<\/strong>Revise and improve an improvised or\u00a0scripted drama\/theatre work through repetition and collaborative review.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TH:Cr1.1.4.a<\/strong>Articulate the visual details of\u00a0imagined worlds, and improvised stories that support the\u00a0given circumstances\u00a0in a drama\/theatre work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Three-Little-Pigs-picture.docx\">Picture of Three Little Pigs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm Up: (5 Min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students will participate in the game, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d To play, form two single file lines with the ends facing each other (so the two people in the front are facing each other, and the other people in the line are behind them.) One person starts by pantomiming a simple action (for example, brushing their teeth). The person across from them asks \u201cwhat are you doing?\u201d and the person who is pantomiming has to say anything other than \u201cbrushing their teeth\u201d.\u00a0Whatever the person says their doing, the person who asked must start pantomiming that action.\u00a0 The previous pantomime goes to the end of their line and the next person asks \u201cwhat are you doing?\u201d and the rounds continue.\u00a0 Keep going until everyone has had a turn or two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson: (30 Min Total)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Begin (5 Min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Begin class by showing the picture of the Three Little Pigs (see above for attachment). As a class, analyze the picture.\u00a0 What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Probable answers will be that the students observe that a wolf is blowing down houses, that the houses are made out of different materials, and that the brick house is the only one that\u2019s standing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, we will be reenacting the story of the Three Little Pigs in our own way.\u00a0 As a class, we will be trying to create the greatest, most coolest, house on earth that is absolutely indestructible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting into role: (5 Min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Take a moment to let the students get into role.\u00a0They will be taking on the part of a pig.\u00a0 What is their pig\u2019s specialty?\u00a0 Are they a brick layer?\u00a0 Do they know a lot about wood?\u00a0 Did they go to college? How can they help with the house building?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once everyone has a specialty, go around the room and listen to what everyone does.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Building the house: (7 Min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right off the bat, give the students a chance to create an indestructible house.\u00a0 They can do it as an entire class or, if the class is larger, split them into groups of 5-8 students per group.\u00a0 Tell the students that they must collaborate together to think of strong materials that will keep a smart wolf out of their house.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Once they\u2019ve decided on what they\u2019re building their house out of while using their specialty, they will pantomime building their house.\u00a0 They are required to have a specific material they\u2019re building it out of and one \u201ccool feature\u201d within the house (like a built in movie theatre, swimming pool, or indoor basketball court). Ask the students questions about their house as they\u2019re building it.\u00a0 Be careful to avoid offering suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Tell students that they will need to sit down once they have completed their house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teacher in Role: (3 Min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As the Big Bad Wolf, the teacher will go around to the different houses.\u00a0 The students for each house will describe their materials and then the teacher will try to blow their house down (or do something else to bring the house down like burn it or something.\u00a0 The goal is to have the teacher destroy each house this round)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reassess and rebuild: (10 Min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully, the teacher was able to take down every house one way or another.\u00a0 Take a minute to talk as a class on how things could be improved.\u00a0 What was their weak point? Can they strength it somehow?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let the students get back into their groups (or it could be fun to have the entire class work together for this revision.\u00a0Use your best judgement&#8230;) to build another, even better house. Again, you can go around and ask questions as the students are building the house. This time you can even offer suggestions if needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The teacher will go around again as the Big Bad Wolf and won\u2019t be able to take down these houses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Students will be assessed on their ability to collaborate with one another, create a character with a specialty, and revise their house from one point to another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will be able to revise and improve a scene by reenacting the three times the wolf tries to blow down a house in the story of the Three Little Pigs.<\/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":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"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=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6051,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/6051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}