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…
The Prairie Wind Blows: Description: The students gather in a circle facing each other with one person in the middle. For the first time it is probably best if it is the teacher who starts in the middle. The person in the middle is the prairie wind. As the prairie wind they state a fact that … More The Prairie Wind Blows….
Atoms: Description: This is a good warm up for physicalization and concentration. The students begin by walking around the room with limited direction. The only rules for walking is that they must walk with intent and should cover the whole space of the room. As the students are walking the teacher will call out the atomic … More Atoms
Will Whitten 