Town Hall & Reflection Alley: Description: Using the roles that the students have embodied during statue(ing) and the group tableau the teacher is going to facilitate a town hall style meeting of the characters. Using a problem from the text you are dramatizing the teacher will serve as the mayor of the town and choose … More Town Hall & Reflection Alley:
Group Character Tableau: Description: Using the characters that you created during the statue(ing) exercise the students have the group assemble in character to represent a moment from the picture. The teacher again will prompt the students with questions that encourage the students to further analyze how their character would respond (i.e. “Where would you be … More Group Character Tableau
Statue(ing)/Frozen Moments: Description: Using the characters from the book introduced during the gallery walk have the students begin to walk around the room with purpose. The teacher will begin to give some guided meditation (e.g. “Think about who you would be if you were a character in this book.”). In this case students can choose to … More Statue(ing)/ Frozen Moments
Gallery Walk: Description: Images from a book that the students are going to use in the class are placed around the room as though they are pieces of art hanging in a gallery. Students then wander through the room observing the images and responding to each image. As they develop their responses they write them … More Gallery Walk
A Day in the Life of…: Description: A great way to start to introduce an embodied approach to literature or other subjects. The teacher begins by leading the students through a gentle guided meditation to begin to understand and embody the character that they are about to create or the experience that they are about … More A Day in The Life of…
