Day 5 - Krystle

Well we weren't able to go and teach today but I'm going to blog about applying texts and literacies in the theatre classroom. When I think about this I think about all of the possibilities that we have as theatre teachers. We have so much right at our fingertips but I don't think that we necessarily think of them as texts and literacies. At least I know that I didn't. I think that one of our greatest and most commonly used text is the body. It's the one that does everything, from moving to speaking. It has the ability to convey more meaning that just about anything because of how versatile it is. How we use it is the literacy. It's understanding the purpose and how we can use it. Thinking of texts in a theatre perspective is very different than just thinking of texts in general. My perspective on what I consider a text and literacy has changed because I now look at texts as a broader option rather than limiting to just books and printed texts.