The reading made me think a lot about set ups. It made me think about the process of how I teach something in a lesson, a unit, through the year, through multiple years for the students that go through the whole program, and for rehearsals for the after school productions. I have trouble sometimes when trying to teach something because it's usually in some area that I understand pretty well. It's either something that just makes sense to me or that I have grown up doing and consequently is just part of my nature. So trying to figure out a line upon line concept so that others can learn is sometimes a challenge for me. I know where I want to end up, the final goal, so it's figuring out in my lessons and units had to build one thing on top of another so there is a progression and my students learn and get to the final goal without even realizing they're doing it.
Going along with that, trying to set up in my units what lesson is more basic and should be taught first. For example even a simple goal of having the students perform a monologue. That seems basic to me and something that should be done early on in a Drama 1 class. But even that, when broken down, seems so complex. There are the concepts of projection, character, audience, and voice production. So it makes me think that, because some of these lessons I don't feel need a full day's lesson on, maybe I can teach them in activities without expressly talking about them. That way students learn these concepts without realizing it and they will become natural and instinctual when performing.
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