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Week 14 Blog Post

Which part of your drama techniques integrated story book activity went well and which part needs more improvement? 
I honestly thought my group did not do too bad since it was only two of us and we were missing two other group members. The book we had was "The Paper Bag Princess" and I think it was honestly a really good book choice for this project. The book had multiple opportunities to use different drama techniques throughout the book. I think all of our techniques went well but there was two that needed little work. Narrative pantomime; it went well and would be easy enough for young students to follow but I can tell it needed a little more prep work before I read that page. Person in a mess is the other one and I think that's just because we got a little mixed up with another one and people did not interact as much as the other techniques. I think the best drama technique we used for the book was person in a hot seat; I acted as I was the princess and had the class ask questions and luckily people did participate and asked some funny questions. 

Having exhibited your pieces at McKay, how do you feel? 
After having them exhibited I feel a little sad. I just really loved this class and felt like I learned so many creative ways to make my teaching more engaging and can really help me make an impact on my students.  But I really liked having them all on display so that everyone can see what they did and what other people did in class this semester. The hanging up and working to put all the art up was just another way for me to look at everyone else's art that I may have not seen in class so that was a fun extra. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch | Goodreads

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