Name
The birth of the ancient greek theatre: an instinctive cultural phenomenon and/or a political one?
Topic
Birth and development of ancient theatre
Learning time
25 hours and 50 minutes
Designed time
26 hours and 34 minutes
Size of class
24
Description
The birth of the ancient greek theatre: an instinctive cultural phenomenon and/or a political one? Students have to: 1. research and select information and documents about the origins of the greek theatre; 2. describe information and documents; including some dramas; 3. produce new scripts of a drama they will select; 4. debate about issues, 5. discussing about issues; 5. assess and evaluate products after deciding criteria of evaluation.
Aims
The project aims: 1. to promote knowledge about a very significant topic; 2. to enhance skills of argumentation; 3. to implement skills of awareness and self-confidence; 4. to implement skills of collaboration among peers; 5. to increase skills of evaluation.
Outcomes
Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation, Affective learning outcomes, Affective learning outcomes, Affective learning outcomes
Editor
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Driving question and creating the groups. Leader activities : to collaborate; to discuss.
89 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    20
    24
    0
    Teacher introduces the topic and focuses the issue, then proposes the driving question and the activity.
  • Collaborate
    10
    24
    0
    Creating groups with TeamUp tool; the groups will be formed choosing casual different criteria which the teacher will indicate : zodiac sign, soccer team preferred, and so on...
  • Read Watch Listen
    5
    24
    0
    Asking students to write rules of work and collaboration for their group regarding the project activity.
  • Collaborate
    30
    4 ( groups)
    0
    Students work together in previously created groups, in order to identify the questions they would like to pursue, to make choices such as resources used, products created, use of time... This is also a moment of scaffolding . In this phase teacher is in the class but doesn't participates.
  • Discuss
    24
    24
    0
    Groups of students present each other and to the teacher their decisions and criteria of working.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Searching and selecting information; presenting results to the class. Main actitvities : inquiring by using scaffolding, producing; discussing.
405 minutes)
  • Investigate
    180
    4 ( groups)
    1
    Students search and select information, using multimedia instruments and fonts. In this phase will be used Jigsaw technique, in order to provide scaffolding .The teacher is in the class but groups work indipendently from her/him.
  • Produce
    100 ( for each group)
    24
    0
    The 6 groups of students prepare slides with the results of their searches ( work to be done in the classroom, but also at home)
  • Practice
    60
    24
    0
    Presentation of the slides ( 10 minutes for each group). the teacher is in the class but he/she does not intervenes.
  • Discuss
    50
    24
    0
    After every presentation there will be a short assessment ( a debriefing; pupils who listened and watched, will pose focused questions ).
  • Collaborate
    15
    24
    0
    Two teams of students ( 12 +12) ask each other 5 questions about the topic , that every team prepares. Every team has to answer to the questions of the other one.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
The dramatization. Main activities : practicing, acquiring .
1100 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    20
    24
    0
    Teacher introduces the next steps of the project : each group will create a dramatization of an ancient Greek drama and evaluate itself and the others ; He/she explains the goals and gives the tasks: to produce a new script, for a theatre play of 30 minutes ( more or less). At the end pupils will pose questions if something is not clear.
  • Collaborate
    50 ( for each group)
    4
    0
    The members of every group meet to organize the staging with a new script of an ancient Greek drama ( tragedy or comedy) at its choice . A drama has to be selected and the group has to organize tasks among every member.
  • Read Watch Listen
    200
    1
    0
    Every member of the group reads the drama which has been chosen and does his part of work ( to be done at home).
  • Discuss
    60
    4
    0
    Every group meets to discuss the works of each member, to correct something and eventually to propose some changes. This is also a moment of assessment in each group.
  • Produce
    100
    4
    0
    Every group produces its drama ( work to be done at school and at home) .
  • Collaborate
    30
    24
    0
    Teacher fixes criteria of evaluation with pupils (Socratic discussion).
  • Practice
    600
    0
    Every group rehearses its drama ( at home et in the classroom), then plays it in the classroom. During the plays, pupils will take notes, in order to express an evaluation
  • Collaborate
    20
    4
    0
    Every group meets to discuss about the evaluation which each member gave to his/her group and to the others, in order to find a joint position which will be expressed in the next plenary session.
  • Discuss
    20
    24
    0
    This is the last step: the students come together in a plenary session, with the teacher as a moderator, and, through the technique of debate, discuss to find a joint evaluation.
Notes:
Resources linked: 0

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