This week we considered literacy within drama and how it
impacts highly towards making drama what it is. We looked at the story book
‘Voices in the Park’ by Anthony Browne and how we molded this storybook into a
drama activity. This week we concentrated on the use of ‘Conscience Alley’ in
classrooms and how it can be manipulated with other storybooks or a scene that
children may have experienced before e.g. ‘going to the park with a friend when
you’re not meant to leave the house today’. As mentioned by Gibson and Ewing
(2011) “Students are thus provided with opportunities to rehearse consequences
of decisions, consider characters’ reasoning, and think about potential
resolutions” (p. 56). I believe Conscience Alley in a drama setting would be useful
for students who have not had many opportunities with dealing with decision
making. This activity can help them to experience every aspect of decision
making and will facilitate them in the later future.
This video is a creative mix of 'Voices in the Park' by Anthony Brown and uses singing and images in the picture book to tell the story of how Smudge and Charles became friends in the park through different seasons of the year.
References
Gibson, R. & Ewing, R. (2011). Transforming the Curriculum through the Arts. Claremont Street,
South Yarra: Palgrave Macmillan.
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