Thurs 18th November EET class

Hi Year 10s, I hope you had a lovely Xmas.

Please write up the work you did in the last lesson of term (when Mr. Crowther covered my class).

Boys - what decisions did you make when staging Tale 1?

Girls - what decisions did you make when staging Tale 2?

what is working well?  Needs Improving?

make sure you learn these tales over the holidays.

When working on your group tale - what section did you focus on next?

How are you communicating it in Physical Theatre style?

How are you delivering the lines?

What ideas do you have for staging the rest of your tale?

Have a Happy New Year and see you in January, best wishes Ms Lee

Homework for East End Tales lesson on Thurs 11th Nov

You were asked to write a monologue for one of the characters in EET that stays with the same style of the play.

Either take a photo of your monologue and upload it, or type your monologue onto  your blog.

You then worked in pairs to stage the pieces:

Q: What choices did you make when staging your monologue?  Think about how you used your voice and physicality.

Q: How did the monologue task help you to understand the play further?

You performed and watched your peers' work:

Q:  What monologue performed by a peer worked well and why?  What had they written about?

Q:  Who performed their monologue successfully and why?

You then continued to work on your tale in your groups.

Q:  What was effective about how you brought the characters, atmosphere and location of your tale to life?

Q: How did you use the Physical Theatre style?

Q:  What ideas do ;you have for staging the rest of the tale?

 Next lesson it would be good if your group got through the whole tale, roughing out what you plane to do before the Xmas holiday.  Then we can work on it in detail after the break.

So look at your tale before Thurs and come with ideas/

The boys with also be looking at staging Tale 1, and the girls Tale 2.

HMW for lesson on 4.12.14.

Task 1.
Write a 1 min monologue for your favourite character from 'East End Tales', keep it in the same style as the play.

Learn it to share with the class next Thurs.

Task 2.
You were given news articles about the East End in your groups.  You created another East End tale (this was how the writer created EET originally).

In your blog explain:

what choices you made with your group to make one of these articles into an East End Tale? Why?

How did you make the new tale you created like the tales in the play?

Which character did you play and how?

What theatre skills did you use to  perform the tale?

Task 3.
You then worked on your EET in your group. Answer the following:

How did you bring the location of your tale to life with sound and movement?

How did you communicate the characters?

How did you use the text of EET in this work?

HMW for lesson on Thurs 27th Nove

WATCHED

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Frantic Assembly Othello 2014 Trailer

Physical Theatre

The final peice will rely on physical theatre and the work of a tight ensemble to tell the story of 'East End Tales'.

Frantic Assembly are a UK based physical theatre company, take a look at the clip from their 'Othello' above.

Task 1 - TALE 8 

In groups you read through TALE 8. 

You needed to underline anything that suggested a location, weather, or atmosphere.

Write some examples of what you underlined OR take some photos of your script.

CREATE/REHEARSE

Once you'd done this you went through anything you'd underlined and created a series of sounds and some movement to develop the scene. 

You were asked to focus on creating the atmosphere and think about being the buildings, the weather, and the atmosphere.

You were allowed to use some of the lines from the text – however you might have decided to just use your sounds and movements to tell the tale.

You then SHARED the work with the class and reflected.

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What was effective about the sounds they had decided to use?

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What was effective about the movement they had decided to use?

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How did the work make you feel?

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What could have been developed further?

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Are their many similarities in what groups decided to do?

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Do the sounds and movement have the same impact as just reading out the lines? Is it a better way to help tell this story?

Task 2.

In 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. 

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 if your took a photp. 

You wrote:

INTERIOR: Things the character thinks and feels.

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

 

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!