Importance Of Drama In The Classroom

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Is there value of using drama activities in the classroom or not? While we did the activity I learned a lot about the use of drama for a novel. I learned about different ways to bring drama in the classroom when doing a part of the work that can be act out. I would say that this method can be successfully used in classrooms.

In the play As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139-143 William Shakespeare claimed that: “ All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, He acts being seven ages.” I would say that that is true. Every person has some stages in their lives where they want to act differently, and isn’t that what is happening during …show more content…

It is a way for them to ‘act out’ and be themselves as they will say. Drama in the classroom is also another way of learning without having to go and sit to learn. Another advantage is that learners will get to know one another better and also learn how to work in groups. They will have to tolerate each other even if they don’t like each other so that they can get better marks. That is also a lesson for them. Another lesson is that they will learn from one another different ways of acting, etc. The teacher can also learn something new from the learners, every time that someone read the book there is something new to discover, maybe they do or say something in the drama that the teacher haven’t seen yet. Also in the drama the different learners may act out there scene differently and that is also interesting to see how the different people interpret parts of the book …show more content…

The first one is that they need time to practice. The teacher also have to go and think carefully about what play to give what phase because it can’t be too difficult words, or to remember. A problem that can occur at the phases, more at the senior and EFT phase is that some of the children do not like to be put on the spot in front of people and act it out. They do not like to do something in front of a lot of people and now they have to act out drama? The only disadvantage that I can see at the intermediate phase is that the children may still be too young to understand what they have to do and to interpret the

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