Kiely's Response 2

The reading made me think more deeply about how well rounded each lesson is so that all students are able to learn everything being taught. But in addition to just learning it, I want to make sure it's internalized so that they can take the principle itself and apply it to other situations. One principle I thought of was how to use and manipulate your voice to make it do what you want. I had an idea of doing a unit on this. I could start with teaching about projection and enunciation, and exploring how to give your voice dynamism so it conveys the emotion of the scene. That is fairly specific to stage performance. But then I could take it a step farther and do a project using radio. They could tell stories like an old fashioned radio program and we could record them. With this project they are completely dependent on their voice to get the message across but it's using the same principles as before, just in a different medium. I could also do a project using puppetry with the students focusing on doing the talking for the puppets. For me I want to teach the principle, which doesn't take that much, but then use more time exploring different ways the principle can be applied to different mediums. I think projects like these coupled together offer a variety to the students because some may feel less comfortable on stage, so a recorded radio program would be something they're more interested in. It also fosters learning history as the students would study older radio programs and how they were done. I think using diversity in the activities in the classroom helps students learn to take what they learn and apply it better to other situations. This allows the learning to move outside the classroom and into their lives.