Homework Thursday 20th November

You need to write about the lesson this week, reflecting on the exercises you have done and explain how you have developed your understanding of the play, characters and themes. 

You were given the marking criteria for DEVELOPING for this project. You need to complete the sheet, you would have started this in the lesson – the sheet must be uploaded to your blog.

Task 2 (45/60 mins)

Mr Worden set you homework last week:

Bring to class next week  ideas, character research and drawings of the characters you are exploring. 

This should have been put onto your blog last week.

This week you then:

In groups you shared your homework. What had other people in your group done?

You then created a response to the tale you were working on and including the research you had completed for your homework.

You were asked to continue to be guided by the style of the play – it should feel physical – you couldn't use any props/chairs etc.

• What did you develop and create? How?
• How did your homework help you develop the tale practically?
• Explain what you did as your character. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)

Task 3

In new groups of 5/6 you re-read Tale 6. You had to underline all the people mentioned e.g brother, landlord, mother…

• What did you underline in the text? - take photos, or write the list. 

Individually you decided on a character they you had underlined to create a role – on – the – wall for. You were given the sheet for this in the lesson. Upload this on the blog. 

You wrote:

INTERIOR: Things the character thinks and feels.

EXTERIOR: Things that people say about them, what they look like.

As some of these characters only exist in a mention by another person you had lots of creative freedom to develop the roles.

Using the roles you had developed you created some scenes that show how these characters exist outside the play. 

For example, the character in tale 6 speaking is waiting for his brother to finish work. They might explore a scene of the brother at work. You needed to make up what he does etc. You needed to focus on creating roles that are believable and should keep in mind the context of the play, the east-end.

• What scene did you develop?
• What drama skills did you use to do so?
• Explain what you did as your character. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)

You then SHARED the work with the class and reflected.

• What was effective about the characters they had decided to explore? 
• Did the scene help you understand anything new about the play or another character?

Last task:

You should continue to explore the East-End through research. Keep uploading this to your blog too!