Proposal

Stacy Biggs, Beth Huth, Jessica Oates IL 2236/Drama and Performance in the Classroom July 3, 2008  __ **Inquiry Group Proposal** __1.)  __Inquiry Group __ The members of our group are Jessica Oates, Beth Huth, and Stacy Biggs. We chose to work together because we all teach or have taught secondary English and we share similar interests in literature. Each of our teaching areas has been high school; therefore we feel that we can collaborate on a project that has the potential to be equally beneficial to all of us. 2.) __Focus __ For this project, we have chosen to work with //The Crucible//, by Arthur Miller. Our specific focus areas are going to be using process/educational drama as a means of identifying, analyzing, and discussing internal and external conflict in the play. Using conflict as our main focus also allows lessons to naturally and fluidly extend into discussion of theme, and characterization, so that the drama research we present can be used in those areas as well. Our research will center on different dramatic and creative ways to bring out the conflicts presented in the play. 3.) __Rationale __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Because //The Crucible// contains adult themes and conflicts that many high school students have not yet experienced, process drama is a necessary technique for students to comprehend them. We will implement activities that aid in the engagement and personal relation to the allegorical themes as well as the internal and external conflicts experienced by multiple characters. We will also focus on the characterization developed throughout the drama. The function of this set of activities is to reinforce comprehension of conflict within drama, as well as its affect on characterization and ultimately theme. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">4.)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Annotated Bibliography __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Research will include a variety of sources. We plan to include scholarly journals, lesson plans on The Crucible from reputable sources, multiple print and media sources on process drama activities and how to implement them, teaching resources provided by publishers, as well as newspaper and magazine articles. We will attempt to draw parallels between the conflicts, both internal and external, within the drama and the students' contemporary experiences. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">5.)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Focus Strategies __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">To select what we will represent in our I-group Portfolio, we will determine what will be most useful for educators who will read and use our portfolio to gather ideas for their own classroom. The primary focus of our research project will be to incorporate drama and creativity into our unit on //The Crucible//, a play that is typically difficult for students to engage with. We will include lesson plans as well as detailed descriptions for how to conduct the drama activities we discuss. We will also provide a discussion of our rationale for why we chose those specific drama activities, how to build up (scaffold) for the drama activities before doing them with the class, and how to conduct reflection on the drama activities with the class. We anticipate that half of our sources will focus on the content of //The Crucible//, and half with focus on incorporating drama into the classroom. As we research and begin to design lessons and activities, we hope to merge ideas we gain from lessons plans on the play with ideas about how to incorporate drama into lessons. From these sources, we would like to draw ideas for using drama to analyze, evaluate, and illustrate internal and external conflict from the play. Some preliminary ideas include activities which allow students to journal and interview/be interviewed in the person of one of the characters from the play. Frozen picture, hotseating, and the analogy strategies from chapter two of Wilhelm & Edmiston (1998) are all potential activities we could use. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">6.)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Position __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">(Individual position papers are attached.) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">7.)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Methods __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">In addition to using sources currently held, we will search the library and Internet for teaching strategies involving process drama. We will take thorough notes, citing each source properly in order to avoid plagiarism. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">8.)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Materials __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">We will include lesson plans, detailed descriptions of dramatic activities, and samples of “student” work, including journals, scripts for dramatizations and quickwrites. We also plan to create a wiki space in which to present these materials, where we could provide links to articles and other resources that we used to create our materials, as well as links for further reading. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">9.)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Publication __ <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">For our publication, we have decided to create a wiki page entitled, <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">[|www.dramathecrucible.wikispaces.com] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">. There were several reasons for this decision: first, as a group, the wiki space is an easy way for us to continually update and edit our sources and drafts, whether we are able to meet in person or not. The beauty of the wiki page is, of course, that all members have access to uploading and editing, as well as discussion threads and blogs, so we thought it was a great way for us to plan and organize. Secondly, when we started thinking about how we were going to distribute our information, we thought that continuing the wiki page was a natural extension of what we were already doing: the purpose of the publication is to share and teach our class about our information, sources, ideas, etc., and that’s exactly what we’re doing with each other throughout the course of creating this project. We all agreed that having a website in which we create links to different sources and articles, our lesson, other lesson ideas, etc. would be the best way to get our ideas to the greatest number of people. It’s not something anyone has to take home, and it will always be available online if, somewhere down the road, a person in this class (or beyond) finds use for anything we presented. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The tentative plan is to create a homepage for //The Crucible// with links to different types of drama sources, article/other reading sources, lesson plans, etc. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">10.)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Timeline __ **<span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">June 2008 **  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">  <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Select Group and Topic || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || search for sources, and complete draft of proposal segments. Meet at 3:30 to discuss proposal <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Stacy: Set up Wiki Space || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> ||
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**<span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">July 2008 ** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Continue to search for sources and bring any new sources to class || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Jess: Combines portions of proposal from wiki to Word file. Prints final draft of proposal || **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">I-Group Proposals Due ** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">After class: discuss research and sources thus far || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Independence Day || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Share Annotated Bibliography with other groups || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Stacy: prepares PowerPoint and copies of play -- formats wiki <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Beth: Creates character/review sheet. || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || **<span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">I-Group Workshop, Half of Class ** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">
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