- the materials are a list of simple external
links pointing to encyclopaedic sites.
- The materials can be used for a variety of
purposes:
- additional study materials for your
class-based regular lessons
- incorporate some detailed knowledge into a
chat session you have been scheduled on by your teacher
- find prompts and inspiration for writing a
play yourself
- find answers to questions you've been asked in
a forum
- find useful quotes helping you understand
issues in human moral dilemmas
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- each link points to the biographical notes of
a famous author.
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- in the external page you will easily find
further references about the author's production and critical
articles.
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- you should start by listing up a series of
questions whose answers are plausibly likely to be found in the
external link.
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| WHAT QUESTIONS? |
| Apart from biographical
notes, you might find it useful to jot down the following list |
- what is the author's view on what the value of
drama is?
- what purpose should drama serve in order
to better analyse the human mind?
- what kind of audience is that specific
author's production addressed to ? why?
- in what respect is the production of that
specific author different from the contemporary production you know?
- what are the author's views on human nature?
- what specific themes does the author deal
with?
- which author do you like best and why?
- what are his/her peculiar characteristics in
drama making,
- what theatrical devices does he/she use?
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| METACOGNITION -
REFLECTION |
- Imagine you are a playwright, who
among the most famous authors you looked at would you most like to be
and why?
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- what do you think is the worst thing about
being a playwright today?
- what do you think is the best thing about
being a playwright today?
- do you think that living on-stage drama will
continue to exist in spite of TV and highly sophisticated reproduction
technology?
- if yes, why?
- if no, why?
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| WORKING OUT SOMETHING
NEW: COOPERATIVE RE-WRITING OF A PLAY |
- Ask your teacher to help you organize a
group of 6 pairs of students from the SCOUT classes to work on the
re-make of a play
- choose a play from a famous European
playwright (ex: L'Ecole des Femmes)
- get the script if you can find it online and
share the link with the other students
- make 3 teams of two people each
- take a week or two to read the script
- start a forum thread to give out roles
(Philinte - Alceste - Celimene etc)
- negotiate on who's playing who
- negotiate the new setting - time period -
types and costumes your new Ecole des Femmes should be set
- start re-writing your parts in modern teenage
language
- post your modified parts in progress in the
forum
- plan an online chat for adjusments
- find new incidents
- collect the new parts into a web page
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