Drama reflection 2

Drama reflection2
In my drama class, I have got to know many skills and also how to develop them. We have done our activities and performances based on criteria A (knowing and understanding), criteria B (developing skills), criteria C (thinking critically), and criteria D (responding).

First of all, I have got to know and understand many skills, informations, vocabularies, histories, etc... that is all related to drama. We have learned about Ancient Greek theatre (figuring out what they did to make the performances a success, and what kind of techniques they used), physical theatre (how to communicate an emotion through movements, acting out a poem [and poem verbs]) and I have gained a lot of new knowledge by PPP, researches, teacher's advice etc... But most of all by TRYING OUT THE TASKS GIVEN! From PPP, I have learned about unison, Greek theatre (in ancient times). From researches I have learned about Greek theatre mask, and Greek theatre's  thoughtful devising for the audiences. From teacher's advice there're few of them that I remember; that we have to project our voice when wearing a mask because it can block your voice, to be serious at the task in group work especially for the people in your group, and she also told me not to be scared when I had to roll off from the box for our first physical theater performance, the box.

I also got to know more vocabularies based on the topic. For example, unison (to do an action at the complete same time in a group), chorus (to speak at the same time), oracle (a person who has a job to tell the future) etc....

Greek theatre I think is also related to history but I think in history lessons we probably don't learn about these entertainments for people. Therefore I think it was a good chance for me to learn about these things.

In drama, skills that are acquired was communication skills, creative thinking skills, social skills, self management skills, and reflection skills. The skills that I think I developed was communication skills and reflection skills. I applied communication skills when I was working in a group. I tried my best to communicate my ideas and also listened to other people's ideas too. I applied reflection skills by reflecting each step on my blog for better presentation in the future.

For thinking creatively, I am not very good at doing it in drama. So this time I have decided to look at other people's creative ideas and learning from it. This way I thought I can develop my thinking creative skills. Also we have worked to communicate a certain message. It was the box. We tried our best to communicate the frustrating emotion through movements.

If I assess my artistic response during the unit, I would give it a 6 because I think my ideas weren't creative enough and thinking creatively is very important but everything else, I have tried my best and I also completed all my tasks on time. My work demonstrates few concepts - Greek theatre and physical theatre.

Things that I can do to improve my performance in this rotation is to speak louder as I'm not familiar and not good at projecting my voice for long time (like performances). I can also focus on thinking of more creative ideas. This is very important point for me to improve because I think that if the performance isn't creative enough, the audiences can get bored easily and not be attracted to the performance.

Overall, the criteria that I can improve on is criteria C, thinking creatively. I am going to try my best in my next rotation to improve on this but I think in this drama class I have learned a lot and at the same I had a lot of fun too!