Today:
We started with the idea of slowing down to allow creativity to emerge. I shared what I learned at our recent professional development on this topic. We tried some basic relaxation exercises to help you get to a "still mind."
Journal Prompt #6: I gave you 15 minutes to write 1 page on anything. How often do we get that? Some of you chose to doodle, some wrote a song lyric, others wrote poetry. Most of you agreed that it help to center yourself before you come up with new ideas. We discussed slowing you brain down to undertsand Shakespeare.
We broke into 4 groups. We defined pantomime and watched an example from You Tube. I then gave each group a scene from Act 1 and tasked you with showing these with only brief narration, and lots "showing" your action without using words.
Reminder: A great PBS series continues on PBS tonight, Shakespeare Uncovered. I believe Hamlet is next Friday- but I am sure that you will get something out of all of them- they are that good.
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