Thursday, March 5, 2009

"The Veldt" Performance -Tableau

 Today, we finally did our performance about "the Veldt". Actually, it was supposed to be done by Monday... but since some students had problems with their reading, it was delayed until today. Anyway, they also finished their reading, and we could finally start this project!  
 
 In my opinion, tableau is a very good way to review stories. It can help us understand the stories better. I felt this during our project!

 First, during this project, we could understand the story of "the Veldt" more clearly than before. We were assigned to choose 5 the most important scenes in this story, and to do this, we had to know the plot of this story very well! We talked about the story of "The Veldt", and discussed each other to find the essential parts!

 Secondly, we could understand the mood of the story. To make our tableaux more effective, we tried to show feelings of the characters on our face! This needed us to read the story more carefully, to find how the characters felt in each different situation.

 Next, the performances also helped us to grasp entire the story. We were divided into two groups, and each group tried their best on this project. Watching the other group's performance, we could know what we missed and gained more information.

 These were all good for us, but most importantly, we could also have fun! For some students, perhaps reading a story could be a little boring, especially when they can't understand it easily. However, when we were preparing for the performance, nobody seemed bored! They looked very excited and joined in it very diligently!

 Hence, tableau is a very good way to learn about a story!!
 I was very excited today, and hope we can do this again on the next time~

2 comments:

  1. You were an amazing organizer with great leadership skills. Your team has worked hard and I'm proud of you all. You all took the story seriously and discussed what each character was feeling and what they looked like. I was especially impressed when you were looking through the story to check the details of each of the scenes. Great analyzing skills!

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  2. Wowww,,,, really????? Actually, we were liitle bit worried about how you thought about our tableaux, cuz we made some mistakes at first,,,! Thank you Ms.Yu~:-)

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