INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA

What is drama?

In literature, a dramatization is the depiction of anecdotal or non-anecdotal occasions through the exhibition of composed discourse (either composition or verse). Dramatizations can be performed in front of an audience, on film, or the radio. Shows are commonly called plays, and their makers are known as "writers" or "producers."




A structured Approach to Teaching Drama

Here are some steps to follow to get a class about drama.

  • The first step is to get in agreement about the rules that every child will follow the behavior, and the use of the three C’s that are concentration, cooperation, and communication. 
  • The second step is warm-up, doing some teamwork activities, for example, to get in pairs with a similarity between students’ clothes. 
  • The third step is a focus, with some activities like showing images of the scenes with the characters. Students can analyze each one.
  • The fourth step is development; it is about creating small parts of the performance that are going to develop at the end. 
  • The fifth step is visualization; imagine everything that can take part in the drama activity like different sounds, characters, and things. 
  • The sixth and seventh steps are soundscape and bodyscape; they are about creating the sound of the environment that is going to be in the scene and creating body shapes according to the settings like trees.
  • The eighth step is the performance at this part, the purpose of the scene is the one, which leads the motivation to do it. 
  • The ninth step is frozen scenes and thought tracking, this is about making everything to act, for example doing the lines, which character is first, and what are the settings needed. 
  • As the final step, evaluation, this one is important to know the weaknesses and strengths that students want to achieve next time.



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