Beyond the Script Drama in the Classroom: Take Two. Storm Boy Lesson Plan Ideas (Draft Copy). He and his reclusive father 'Hide Away' Tom ( Peter Cummins) live in the isolated sand dunes facing the Southern Ocean. The teacher could easily prompt the walking in role activity, while students would be encouraged to ask appropriately complex questions for the hot-seating activity.Įwing, R. Mike ( Greg Rowe) is a lonely young boy wandering through the fierce deserted coast of South Australia's Coorong, near the mouth of the Murray River. Other possible activities that would help build students confidence with the characters in the play before taking on their roles would be hot seating activities and walking in role activities that draw on how characters might respond to certain questions to inform their personality in the play (Ewing and Simons, 2004). They may also read the entire story and then participate in a conscience alley activity that may in fact lead to students changing the ending of the story altogether. Some examples of how the play might be used in a Drama class could be that students listen to, or read, half the script/story and then write their own ending that they would act out. These themes could easily be interwoven throughout a term or semester into many KLA’s and be used as a stimulus or as a focus in subjects such as English, Art, PD/H/PE and HSIE.
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