Using drama to pull out the main points and emotions in a text

Preparation:

• Today we are going to continue our drama work based on the chapter where Junior first goes to Reardon High.  
• We will start in groups, revising and polishing our presentations.  
• As we work out what to present to the class, we are practising the skill of summarising and prioritising.  
• We are also identifying the emotions at each point in the plot, and deciding how to represent the emotions.  

Presentation:

• As we watch each presentation, we will be looking for the key movements and the key emotions for each presentation.  We want to remember these for our writing task coming up. Ms Quick will take photos of the process.

Reading comprehension & writing:

• I will share this task at the end of the lesson.  It will be due on Monday 25 March.