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Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 10:03 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012

Our unit for drama is puppetry and we are learning about all different types of puppetry as well as learning more about gestures and freeze-frames with speech. Today we got into partners (I got into a group of three because there was one extra person) and one person put the other person/s into a freeze-frame [...]

storytelling

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 2:36 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012

our unit in Drama was storytelling. After we learnt a lot of techniques of ways to tell a story, we got into groups of 4  and found a folktale/fairytail/legend/myth from our country.In my group was Me,Iruka,Jamie and Axel and we performed a welsh folktale called “old Gwilim).We practices for a few weeks, including adding interesting [...]

An Irish Story

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 9:13 pm on Thursday, February 23, 2012

 In Drama class, for our storystelling, we chose a story from our country. The one I chose from Ireland is the The Giants Causeway. I took the story from a book called “Irish Fairytales- Retold by Philip Wilson”. The story is about how there is this one powerful strong giant, Cucullin, who is known as very [...]

Legends, Myths and Folktales

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 6:11 pm on Monday, February 20, 2012

In drama, we are learning about storytelling and 3 types of stories. The 3 types of stories we are learning about are Legends, Myths and folktales.For a small assignment we have to write what each of them are. Here it is: Legend: A legend is a historical story and is sometimes based on something that [...]

3 Minute Speech Reflection

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 10:10 pm on Saturday, January 7, 2012

In drama, we did a speech that is going to be graded. The speech is supposed to be about 3 minutes.   Here is my speech: 7A Drama 3 min Speech from YIS Academics on Vimeo. From Watching the video I think that the volume and projection f my voice was quiet but when I [...]

1 Minute Speech Reflection

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 8:14 pm on Thursday, December 8, 2011

7A Drama 1 min Speech (2011-12) from YIS Academics on Vimeo. In drama we did 1 minute speeches. I think I need to Improve volume and projection because I think I should speak louder so everybody can hear the speech clearly. I should try to make sure that I speak loud enough for the size [...]

Mime Summative : Airplane

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 9:21 pm on Sunday, November 6, 2011

In the first unit of grade 7 drama, we did Mime. Before we started this unit, the only thing I knew about mime was you don’t talk but now I know a lot more. For our summative task, we did split into groups and my group did an airplane scene using what we learnt. What [...]

Singing In The Rain (Gene Kelly)

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 12:15 am on Thursday, April 7, 2011

In “Singing In The Rain (Gene Kelly), he uses umberella as a prop. It is good because connects with the song. At first he is using his umberella as an umberella but then he changes it into a prop. To rythms, he uses tapping his feet in different rythms ,stamping and near the end part he [...]

LAMDA speech Reflection

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 7:06 pm on Wednesday, January 12, 2011

6B Mary-LAMDA Speech from YIS Academics on Vimeo. I think I did good in the calrity and tone  but I think maybe I should get better at audibility and body language.I also think that I should look at the camera more. “>

LAMDA exam practice

Filed under: Drama — 17gartlandm at 7:56 pm on Wednesday, December 1, 2010

 Mary 6B from YIS Academics on Vimeo. I think to improve I should speak louder. I also think I should Look at my cue cardsless because I think I was looking at them to much.

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