Welcome to Arts Bridge: Drama Integration!

-
My name is Elise Joyner. I am an Elementary Education major at Brigham Young University. I am an Arts Bridge Scholar for drama integration in the classroom through the BYU Arts Bridge Partnership.

Growing up, I was constantly participating in theatre. I did shows with a local community playhouse as well as my local high school. I have participated in numerous theatre camps and workshops. Most recently, I have taken several theatre and theatre pedagogy classes at BYU to learn how to integrate dramatic activity into the everyday classroom.

I will be working with Alyssa Adair at Blackridge Elementary School to help her integrate drama with the Utah core curriculum. Alyssa began teaching about 4 years ago and is excited learn new art forms. Together, we will be focusing on English/Language Arts standards with an emphasis on parts of a story, storytelling, and identifying different characters in stories.

It is going to be a great semester!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

First Visit! (September 18, 2018)

-
Image
For the first visit with Miss Adair’s class, I wanted to get to know the students and introduce them to the subject of drama. My goal was to get them to become comfortable with moving and developing expressions so that we can build on that from here on out. Name Fame The first activity that we did was a name game entitled “Name Fame.” For this activity, we sat in a circle and listened to each person say their name and one thing that they are “famous” for. In between each person’s turn, we clapped and repeated the phrase “Name game, name game, what’s your name and what’s your fame.” I only had to repeat this phrase twice before the students caught on. Once they figured out the phrase, they excitedly chanted it and were proud to share their name and facts. Through this activity, the students were able to practice speaking loud in front of the entire class. The activity also helped me begin to learn the names of each student (although I will need more practice with this). Mirror ...
Read more

Lesson Plan for Third Visit

-
October 23, 2018 Elise Joyner Alyssa Adair’s 1st Grade Class Blackridge Elementary School Name of activity: Emotion/Character Circle Grade: 1st Grade Purpose of the activity: Embody an emotion or situation to understand how that would feel or what it would look like; use words that lend themselves to opinion statements Management notes: Emphasize the importance of having quiet mouths and keeping to your own space Procedure: ·      Everyone stands in a circle. There is a teacher or facilitator in the middle. ·      Everyone in the circle turns so that they are facing the outside of the circle. ·      The facilitator will say an emotion or a situation that the people in the circle will embody with their faces, posture, and breath. The people in the circle will have a moment to think of how they will react. o   Possible emotions or situations: happy, sad, angry, excited, playing on a beach, going to school, playing...
Read more

Eighth Visit! (November 27, 2018)

-
Image
Today was fun and full of connections! Miss Adair wanted to address some of the class issues that she has seen on the playground and in the class, so we did a process drama focused on unity. The bulk of the lesson plan that I used came from a group project devised in my Theatre for the Elementary Classroom class at BYU. The first part of the lesson is the hook to get students engaged with what we were doing. To do this, we played a game called "Seagulls and Crabs." It is a take on triangle tag. There are at 4 people to a group: a seagull, a crab, and two walls. The goal of the game is for the seagull to tag the crab and for the wall to prevent that from happening. The focus on unity came in the form of the two walls working together with the crab to prevent the seagull from winning. The students had a lot of fun with the game and were good to take their own initiative to make sure that every had a turn to be each part. The next part of a process drama is buildin...
Read more