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Plays and poetry

WALT- Analyse and adapt spoken texts with expression and confidence.

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Activity One:

Role on the wall

With the character that you are portraying in the play that you are reading in your group, create a profile for that character.

Draw up an outline of a body

Inside the body outline, list down physical aspects of that character. For example, Billy is a 11 yr boy. Brown hair, Green eyes, Freckles, he’s 5 ft 7 Be as creative as you like!

Outside the body write down characteristics that you think your character does in the play. For example, likes playing rugby, owns a dog named Morty, can sing

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Activity Two: Character Backstory

Write up a small dialogue for your character in a one minute scene set before the beginning of the play.

Use an ipad to film your scene to post up on your blog and write a small description of what happens in your scene.

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Activity Three: What happened next?

Choose one of the following to complete

Create a scene after the play has ended. Structure it like the script in the text and then read it out with your group!
Create a comic strip of what happens next in the play

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Spoken word poetry: Joshua Iosefa

Watch from 4 minutes 13 seconds and listen to Joshua’s spoken word poem!

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Spoken word poetry analysis

Describe Joshua sharing his poem.

Volume:
Expression:
Speed:
Rhythm:

What makes Joshua a good speaker in this clip?

Identify the most important points in his speech?

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Spoken Word Poetry

Watch this video of Arizona’s spoken word poem and make notes on the next slide on her poem.

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