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The drama techniques integrated storybook activity went because it was easy to come up with many different times to include narrative pantomime and statue, but it was a little more difficult to include other dramatic techniques such as a person in a mess and artifacts because we had such a short and mostly repetitive story. Working together on google slides made it easy to get input from everyone in the group.  I think that having the pieces displayed for the exhibit at McKay gave us a chance to show off the different types of work we completed and was able to look at the other paintings in the hallways after hanging mine up.  It reminded me of the pictures hanging around schools for their art shows.  

  This week was about creative drama based teaching.  I learned that there is a difference between theater and creative drama as well as different types of creative drama.  While theater is more focused on putting on the show, creative drama is more focused on the process and learning involved to create and improvise.  This can be used by the teacher or students.  I think using drama techniques as a teaching tool is a way to really get the students involved in their learning and maintain attention.  It also allows students to have more control over how they learn.  The article we read gave examples of students acting out different scenes and by doing that they are more likely to visualize and understand the lesson than when they hear or read about different time periods.  Giving students the opportunity to experience the creative drama can make the lesson something that they can remember because they experienced it and saw it in real life.  I...