Instruction and Activity

This is a very hard. In our 2ndth day there, our lessons was teaching them about how to select and cut a monologue. How do you do this without having the majority of our lesson be sitting down at the desk? But then again, does doing so many activities allow them to really understand what is neccessary in how to cut a monologue. It was a hard thing to rivel with. We decided on doing much of the lesson monologue cutting together as a group, leading it as a discussion rather than a teacher lecture. By doing it as a discussion, we were able to ask the students, "Why do you think its ok to cut this sentense?", "What is neccessary in a monologue? Why?", and "What is this characters motivations?" It was a really intersting discussion. On another day we discussed Objectives and Tactics. We again were frought with activities vs lecture. Which is most benificial. We felt it most important for our class to do the pb&j hook then have them create objectives for their monologue and to work on it with us there to help them individual if needed. In another lesson we discussed movement in a monologue and got intune with our bodies. That was another lesson but we had a different problem, did we have to much activity and not enough instruction. It turned out ok but I still wonder if that for each of these lessons there was something else we could have done to make it more meaningful and a better balance of the two.