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Reflection 4: ISW and the Draft

Well, this was officially my second full week of teaching. I was actually quite excited to build off the progress I made with my group of students. Thought of a creative lesson plan that I feel will engage and stimulated my group. I am going to teach the kids about ISW which is Interactive Script Writing. It’s just a little thing that my classmates and I would do in high school. It helped us script write and have a deeper connection with the characters that we are developing. It had a big impact for me and helped me become more creative and a better script writer in the process so I came into it thinking that I was going to teach the same kids I had the previous week about this process I’ve become dependent on. Until I got into class and learned that was actually going to split the groups up again. I was a bit let down, but it was for the better there still were kids that I have never talked to and that was kind of the point of this experience so I didn’t sweat it.

At first we were going to do it kick ball style pick and choose but it seemed a bit cruel not to me but to Jess which was really true so that was good on her part to stop it. We decided to just pick from a hat it was actually pretty funny the kids loved it. Kenneth was the announcer putting on funny voices it really seemed like a draft it was pretty ridiculous, I had fun though. The Rolling Reeds and The Rocking Rodgers were the respective team’s names thanks to Derrick and the kids. After we put every student was on a team Jess and I split up and went our separate ways there wasn’t a lot of time so I just dove right into it we thought of the setting first than after that went right into character development. Before we did that I appointed a student name Hallyah as the captain so that someone when I wasn’t around could keep thing going. This to me is the fun part of the whole process I made the kids decide who was acting and made the kids who were acting in the production, pick out costumes based on how they wanted to appear as. We decided on an office theme kind of an office space-esqe which is a fairly easy set to illustrate. The kids where hilarious, I told them to argue toward each other as there character and told the other students to take notes on each individual ones actions and interaction you would like to see between them. It was so much fun that before we knew It class was done. It was great Definitely felt the student attach themselves to the project and That impressed me a great deal.