7: Role Play

Students play various roles in groups to learn presentation skills. They write introductions to themselves and their blogs that they will present on camera. Their finished videos will welcome viewers to their blogs.



Name: Elizabeth Navarro, Educator                                     Grade: 10

LESSON #7                              GARDNER                               BLOOM
                                               
                                                ___Visual                                  ___Knowledge
                                                _x_Kinesthetic                           ___Comprehension
                                                ___Verbal                                 ___Application
                                                ___Logical                                ___Analysis
                                                ___Rhythmic                             _x_Synthesis
                                                ___Interpersonal                        ___Evaluation
                                                ___Intrapersonal
                                                ___Naturalist    
STRATEGY: Role Play

SUBJECT AREA: English/Language Arts/Visual Performing Arts

TEACHER PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION ADDRESSED: TPE 11- Social Environment
Teacher creates an environment that is stimulating, creative, and safe for students to encourage them to use and practice their talents. During this exercise, students will see the teacher model behaviors, then will get to practice them with their peers. This will also promote cooperative activity for students who will later enter the workforce and will need to know how to interact socially in small groups, give a presentation, and have strong communication skills.

STATE CONTENT STANDARD (Know):
English/Language Arts
Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication
1.7: Use props, visual aids, graphs, and electronic media to enhance the appeal and accuracy of presentations (228).

Visual Performing Arts
Creative Expression
2.1: Make acting choices, using script analysis, character research, reflection, and revision through the rehearsal process (113).

PERSONNEL: Aide or parent to help film students, upload videos, and send to students’ emails.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS (Technology):
  • 2 video cameras (or phones, cameras, or computers with video recording capabilities.)
  • Computers station (4 computers) with access to the internet www.blogger.com

LESSON LENGTH: 60 minutes

PREPARATION:
  • Desks set up in groups of four. Assigned seats. Namecards on each desk.
  • Contact parent for video help.
  • Set up parent with camera in quiet area of classroom, hall, or computer lab to film students.

MANAGEMENT STANDARDS:
  • Students get two takes to film their videos. Must use one of the two takes as their final copy to upload. All other practice runs take place during rehearsal (guided practice).
  • Students give constructive criticism to help peers with public speaking.

ANTICIPATORY SET:
Behavioral Objective (Do): Students will record a video using presentation skills.

            Transfer (Learning theory/citations):
“In this country, as in any other, we have those successful types who become the cynical representatives of the ‘inside track,’ the ‘bosses’ of impersonal machinery. In a culture once pervaded with the value of the self-made man, a special danger ensues from the idea of a synthetic personality: as if you are what you can appear to be, or as if you are what you can buy. This can be counteracted only by a system of education that transmits values and goals which determinedly aspire beyond mere ‘functioning’ and ‘making the grade.’”

Erikson, Erik. Identity and the Life Cycle. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979.

Motivation (Teacher Created): Welcome students using poor skills. Slouch, cross legs, fidget with hands, feet, and hair, speak quickly and quietly, no eye contact. Read: “Welcome to class, sophomores. We will be working in groups on presentation skills today. We are going to create videos to post on your blogs. The videos will exhibit the positive presentation skills you learn today. Are there any questions?”

After reading above INCORRECTLY, read again using CORRECT presentation skills so that students can see the difference.

COVER STORY: Students in groups of four, mixed ability levels, mixed genders. Four roles in each group. Students will be each role once, rotating during guided practice.

THE ROLE:
  • Director: leads the group through practice, rehearsal, and filming. Times the speaker.
  • Speaker: person on camera. Executes presentation skills learned.
  • Critics (2): give speaker constructive criticism- what presentation skills they did well, and which ones they need to work on.

SCENARIO OPERATIONS:

  • Students write short introductory bio to be filmed and uploaded to their blog.
  • Prompt (Bio includes):
o   Name, Grade, Teacher, School
o   Interests, Hobbies, or Favorite Things
o   What the blog is about, what it includes
  • 10 minutes to write bullet points of their introductions
  • Rotate through four assigned roles. Speaker practices delivering presentation, director takes role of group leader and timer, critics responsible for encouraging presentation skills and giving feedback. They look for pronunciation, eye contact with camera, enthusiasm, and stance/posture.

METHODOLOGY (Teaching):
  • Welcome by showing the difference between good and bad presenting. (See Motivation).
  • Show four presentation skills, reminding students that audience will be the CAMERA.
o   Pronunciation: Model good/bad. Students practice good/bad. Emphasize slow, steady, pronunciation. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
o   Eye contact: Show how to look directly into camera or glance at note cards, then make eye contact. Practice in groups.
o   Enthusiasm: Model good/bad. Show facial expression, hand gestures, voice inflection. Practice in groups.
o   Stance/Posture: Students sit for videos. Show correct posture, hands in lap (or gesturing), shoulders back, feet flat on the floor. Practice in groups.
  • Give prompt. Allow 10 minutes to write intros. Encourage to use note cards as little as possible.
  • Explain four student roles including responsibilities. Write on board. Assign which seat in the group will start with each role. Roles rotate clockwise. (Speaker gets three practices with direction and critic feedback, then rotate roles.)
           
MODEL (Demo):
  • Show good and bad presentation skills; overall, then individually (pronunciation, eye contact, enthusiasm, stance/posture.)
  • Model what students do in each role, using a group as an example. “While Daniel is speaking, Anthony and Kelly will take notes for constructive criticism. Kayla will time Daniel. He gets 20-40 seconds. After three times, the roles trade this way.”

GUIDED PRACTICE (Checking for understanding - group) LEARNING TASKS (Activities):
  • Model presentation skills and activity students will be learning. Students practice each skill.
  • Students use prompt to write introduction.
  • Work in small groups, taking role of speaker, director, and critic (2).
  • Rotate after the speaker has rehearsed three times.
  • Critics will reinforce presentation skills so that each time the speaker rehearses, he should improve.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE (Monitor/adjust – individual) PRODUCTIVE MODALITIES:
  • Groups called out one at a time. Each student delivers introduction to camera (parent films). 
  • Students get two takes, each group member performing one at a time.
  • Parent(s) to upload each student’s video and email it to student. Student is responsible to post the video to blog.
  • Students who finish early (or who have not been called out to film) may perform their introduction to the class. Class critiques and enforces presentation skills.

CLOSURE: Remind students of the procedure of posting video to their blogs. This is where the video will need to be to be graded.

DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING ACTIVITIES (Learning centers, manipulatives, special needs, etc):
            Gate: Student may help upload and email videos to class.
Challenged: May have more rehearsal time and takes.
Handicapped (Wheel Chair): Student may film video from chair (all other students are seated so that this student will not feel singled out in his video.) Presentation skills emphasized will be eye contact, hand gestures, enthusiasm. This student may show posture with chin and shoulders.
SDAIE Techniques:
-        Role play
-        Cooperative group work.

ASSESSMENT (Objective verb): Record    RUBRIC (What does it measure?): Students’ ability to record a video using presentation skills.

Informal: Group work, role play, rehearsal
Formal: RUBRIC FOR VIDEO
            1 point- Pronunciation
            1 point- Eye contact
            1 point- Enthusiasm
            1 point- Posture
            7 points- Items on prompt addressed
            1 point- Uploaded to blog
Total = 12 points

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