Today was the first day of doing Level 2 - Acting at
Westminster Kingsway College.
Practical Lesson 1:
Task One
The first lesson was practical work. We started with warm ups for our voice and body so that we would not injure ourselves. We then did name games so that we could refresh our memories from the induction day and get to know each other more.
Task Two
We then got into groups of threes and fours and had to do a spider diagram of 'Identity'. After presenting our ideas most students listed identity as politics, family, religion, how you dress and your sexuality.
Tutorial:
For our tutorial we went into the computer room and were given our usernames and passwords for logging into the college sites.
Practical Lesson 2:
Task One
In lesson we played more name games, but this time it was to help our teacher to remember our names.
Task Two
For this game we got into pairs and named ourselves A and B. Person A would put their index finger a few inches away from person B's nose. We would have to follow person As index finger. This game gave us more freedom to move our bodies as we were being controlled by them. We then switched roles.
Task Three (Skills)
In groups we created a spider diagram on techniques for drama. In my group we wrote facial expressions, clear voice and body movement.
Task Four
In groups of four we would then try to present something from a country that our teacher would assign us. e.g. If the teacher said America, one of the groups would do the statue of liberty. This exercise helped us working in teams and listening to each other.
Task Five
For our last activity we got in small groups of four and numbered ourselves from one to four.
Practical Lesson 1:
Task One
The first lesson was practical work. We started with warm ups for our voice and body so that we would not injure ourselves. We then did name games so that we could refresh our memories from the induction day and get to know each other more.
Task Two
We then got into groups of threes and fours and had to do a spider diagram of 'Identity'. After presenting our ideas most students listed identity as politics, family, religion, how you dress and your sexuality.
Tutorial:
For our tutorial we went into the computer room and were given our usernames and passwords for logging into the college sites.
Practical Lesson 2:
Task One
In lesson we played more name games, but this time it was to help our teacher to remember our names.
Task Two
For this game we got into pairs and named ourselves A and B. Person A would put their index finger a few inches away from person B's nose. We would have to follow person As index finger. This game gave us more freedom to move our bodies as we were being controlled by them. We then switched roles.
Task Three (Skills)
In groups we created a spider diagram on techniques for drama. In my group we wrote facial expressions, clear voice and body movement.
Task Four
In groups of four we would then try to present something from a country that our teacher would assign us. e.g. If the teacher said America, one of the groups would do the statue of liberty. This exercise helped us working in teams and listening to each other.
Task Five
For our last activity we got in small groups of four and numbered ourselves from one to four.
Students who got 1 got together, students who go 2 got
together and so on.
After we got into the new groups we were then given a topic
which was 'homecoming'.
We had to do a short performance about this topic. My group
decided that we were high school girls who were waiting for boys to come and
dance with them, but it wasn't happening so we decided to go as a group of
friends as we did not need boys to have fun.