8C Drama: Impromptu Speeches from YIS Arts on Vimeo. In drama class, we have been learning about, ‘how to make a speech’. We had to take out a random topic out of a hat and present about it straight away. I got the topic, telephone. I think my speech was not successful because my topic [...]
In drama class, we have been working on our last unit “Speaking Body”. My group performed a story similar to “Jack and the Beanstalk” but instead, “Rob, Bob and the Teleporter”. The techniques we used were chanting, emotion and mime. My group and I made a lot of progress. Individually, I think I got better [...]
In drama class we did a speech about a certain topic. I did my speech about the best day of my life. I think I should of spent more time on my speech because I changed my topic and so I had to start over again with the plan. I should of used my time [...]
In drama class we had to pick a topic to talk about. We had to take notes and present it to our class. My topic was about my favourite book, “The Secret series” by Pseudonymous Bosch. My strengths were speaking clearly, explaining about my topic well and looking at the audience. My weakness were, I [...]
I think my group did ok in this unit. We did face our back to our audience but I think we were able to explain what was happening in our mime. First we had a different mime skit but when we performed it as a practice infront of our class some people didn’t get what [...]
Today in Drama class we watched Singing In The Rain by Gene Kelly. I think that this dance was very creative. How Gene Kelly used water as his prop. Gene Kelly always smiled during the song (because he was really happy). I really liked how Gene Kelly used his umbrella as a prop. He span [...]
At Drama, we have been practicing for our LAMDA speech!! LAMDA stands for The London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Arts. I was really nervous because I thought that i was going to fail. My class 6C haven’t practiced that much so it was really hard for us to finish our draft and practice for [...]
6C finished their first unit in Drama on improvisation. This has been a great way to start the year. Please see the details of our unit below and go to the Grade 6 page in this blog for more about assessment of the unit. Please view the videos of the our Theatre Sports Event. Significant [...]
