Monday, May 24, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Altering the story and acting : we're behind time
After the story telling sessions, Naowed and I started the part of changing the story. At that time, we were a bit behind time comparing to the other group, and this made us speed things up a bit.
We spent one sessions changing the names of the characters and some scenes in the story. This cost us quite a lot of time, as they had so many different ideas for the story, which was quite unexpected from us. And we had to pay for that. In the next session, we had to restart the whole changing story thing again! But this time, it was quite effective, as Naowed found most of their interests in Harry Potter. Thus, we chose to change the story into "Arthur's Halloween", and this motivated most of them. Yet we still had to pay the price of the time.
In the next session, we tried to help them in their acting, but we observed that their reading skills were not good and needed improvements.
Therefore, on the next two sessions, Naowed decided to use these sessions to improve the students' reading skills. We spent time make them read, find their mistakes such as pronounciation, eye contact, ...and then we could help them to improve, yet this was quite hard. We succeeded, at last. However, this was costly; by the time we finished, there were only 2 more sessions left, and we hadn't started to help them in their acting!
We are now urgently trying to finish everything on time before their actual performance next week. Hope it's going to be fine ... [-o<
We spent one sessions changing the names of the characters and some scenes in the story. This cost us quite a lot of time, as they had so many different ideas for the story, which was quite unexpected from us. And we had to pay for that. In the next session, we had to restart the whole changing story thing again! But this time, it was quite effective, as Naowed found most of their interests in Harry Potter. Thus, we chose to change the story into "Arthur's Halloween", and this motivated most of them. Yet we still had to pay the price of the time.
In the next session, we tried to help them in their acting, but we observed that their reading skills were not good and needed improvements.
Therefore, on the next two sessions, Naowed decided to use these sessions to improve the students' reading skills. We spent time make them read, find their mistakes such as pronounciation, eye contact, ...and then we could help them to improve, yet this was quite hard. We succeeded, at last. However, this was costly; by the time we finished, there were only 2 more sessions left, and we hadn't started to help them in their acting!
We are now urgently trying to finish everything on time before their actual performance next week. Hope it's going to be fine ... [-o<
Story telling sessions =)
In these sessions, we were to tell them a story, and then spend a few more sessions with them for story changing and acting.
We decided to divide the whole group into 2 smaller groups. Naowed and I take one, while Huan and Shadman take the other groups. We were supposed to use different stories for each group, and then have kind of a "competition" between the two groups.
Naowed and I chose to tell them the story "Arthur's April Fools" - a story that Naowed have read when he was small, but I haven't. Therefore, in the few sessions that we spent to help them read and understand the story, I was quite inactive, and I needed time to follow the story. Still, by helping them reading the story out loud and explaining the expressions and words in the story, I had a better grasp of the story after one or two sessions.
After theses sessions, we found out that most of them could read quite well, yet some of them couldn't, because of the destiny that they were bonded to when they were born. Because of this, we decided to sclow things down a bit, and focused on helping them with their reading.
We decided to divide the whole group into 2 smaller groups. Naowed and I take one, while Huan and Shadman take the other groups. We were supposed to use different stories for each group, and then have kind of a "competition" between the two groups.
Naowed and I chose to tell them the story "Arthur's April Fools" - a story that Naowed have read when he was small, but I haven't. Therefore, in the few sessions that we spent to help them read and understand the story, I was quite inactive, and I needed time to follow the story. Still, by helping them reading the story out loud and explaining the expressions and words in the story, I had a better grasp of the story after one or two sessions.
After theses sessions, we found out that most of them could read quite well, yet some of them couldn't, because of the destiny that they were bonded to when they were born. Because of this, we decided to sclow things down a bit, and focused on helping them with their reading.
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