Relaxation/Guided Meditation Warm-Up: Description: Students lie down spread far enough apart that they aren’t touching and are able to lie down undistracted. The students close their eyes and listen to the guided relaxation techniques. The teacher can follow the prompts in the video below or create their own story but the images should be vivid … More Relaxation/ Guided Mediation Warm-UP
Letter to the Character & Snowballing: Description: After all the exercises used to dramatize the text students will write a letter to one of the characters in the text. The teacher can provide a prompt or could allow the students to write a letter that reflects anything that they feel their character might want to … More Letter to the Character & Snowballing
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:
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…
Placemat: Description: Students are given a subject, reading, or question. Students are then divided into small groups. Ideally groups of 4 (although it can be more depending on the class size). Each group takes one piece of paper and divides it into five sections: 1 larger middle section and 4 smaller sections that surround it. This … More Placemat
Will Whitten 