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AURAL SOUND

AURAL SOUND
Performing

Level: Summer ESL+Dr/ Beginner to Low-intermediate

Language Focus: Creative writing + sentence construction (Subject/object concordance + adjective, noun, verb, adjective, noun), semantic/pragmatic meaning
*High-frequency vocabulary

Drama Focus: Improvisations and performance

Time: 5 hours 25 min (5 h. activities + 25min. break/debrief)

Prep time: 3 hours

 

Lesson Description:

In this lesson, ESL+Dr students write and perform a collaborative poetry piece in the form of a dramatic monologue. Using DaDa Poetry as method, students team up to produce and perform an authentic poetry piece. The teacher provides a specific poem for each team to deconstruct and reconstruct into an authentic piece as a way to introduce sentence construction and semantic/pragmatic meaning, from words and phrases to complete sentences.

Dramatic Monologue: in poetry, also known as a persona poem, shares many characteristics with a theatrical monologue: an audience is implied; there is no dialogue; and the poet speaks through an assumed voice—a character, a fictional identity, or a persona. Because a dramatic monologue is by definition one person’s speech, it is offered without overt analysis or commentary, placing emphasis on subjective qualities that are left to the audience to interpret.

 


DaDa PoetryVagina Monologue

 

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