Wednesday, July 22, 2009
TODAY IS 22.07.09 :DD
HELLO EVERYONE!
so today we had DRAMA lesson again
at the beginning of the lesson, we sat in our groups in a circle.
Mdm Oehlers gave us coloured markers. There were four different colours and each colour had 2 markers. We sat beside the person who was holding on to the same marker as us. later on, Mdm Oehlers gave a blank piece of paper with a word in the middle to each pair. In pairs, we were to write down other words which we thought linking to the word. when Mdm Oehler shouts for us to change, each pair would move on to the next piece of paper and add ideas, as well as circle interesting words.
SO THE PICTURES ABOVE ARE THE OUTCOME!
4 WORDS:
- Rivals
- Competition (our theme)
- Winner
- Stress
The purpose of this activity was to broaden our ideas and perspective of the theme.
after this, we moved on to another activity --- Looking at the papers and ideas, think of 2 or 3 different storylines.
So, these are the storylines we thought of after brainstorming:
the mother; housewife: She has a group of friends and they often compare their husbands (e.g: Job, income etc.)
the father; husband: Faces many office politics during work; stressed. he is also stressed over his wife, who compares him with her friends.
the first child; sporty one: She uses physical competitions to get her parents approval (medals)
the second child; smart one: She uses her good academic results to get parents approval
RESULTING IN: SIBLING RIVALRY
2. Growing up
A protaganist going through different stages of life.
Young: During kindergarten, there was friendly competition over trivial matters between her friends and herself. (e.g comparing glitter pens, coloured pencils)
School: During Primary/Secondary/College, students compare results, and there are more challenge as well as competitions, whether acadamically or sports.
Work: experiences fierce competition between colleagues. (for higher postion) Resulting in cheats and dirty tricks being used.
3. Fake Friendship
Protaganists: 2 girls who were 'best friends' since kindergarten
As they grow up, there bound to be competition or comparision between both of them, whether or not it is acadamically or others. (e.g exam marks) One of them (the scheming one) usually loses the other, and she started being jealous of her friend's achievements. slowly, she becomes overcomes with jealousy. The friend, (innocent one) has always considered her as her very best friend, but as she grows up, she realises that their 'friendship' is not that pure anymore.
After that, mdm Oehlers told us to make a picture (using human) to express the storylines to present to the other group and herself, so that they can give suggestions. Lisha and I were the two friends from Fake Friendship, Zhiping was the Father and Xindi was the mother, Shiyin and Jiashin were the competing sisters from Family. Seryeen represented the storyline, Growing up.
Feedbacks given by mdm oehlers/classmates
- growing up story told using monologue
- Overlapping. e.g: Fake Friendship could be the flashback of Growing up storyline
- the Family storyline was abit confusing as there were many conflicts within.
Suggestion: Research on office politics can be done (for first storyline)
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Cheers! :D LYNN!
