Workshop Ideas
Other Warm Ups:
- Give students a topic e.g. fruit, vegetables, names. They have to say words that they come up with on that topic i.e. strawberries, melons, apple. Teacher prompts the students as to how they say the words to their partner - loud, whisper, angry, excited.
The Green Children Unit
They were a boy and a girl like ordinary people in size and shape except that they were light green all over. Some country people found them lying dazed and frightened at the mouth of the cave. They talked in a strange language and did not seem to understand anything that was said to them. They seemed very hungry, but they would not touch bread or meat, only cried bitterly.
The boy was sad and weak, and soon pined away, but the girl learned to eat the food and to speak the language, and in time she lost her green colour and looked like everyone else.
(Originally from a workshop conducted by Jonathon Neelands)
Read pretext (lesson 1):
- Read the fragment
- What do you know from reading it?
- What questions are beginning to form?
- In pairs list the questions you would ask
* Link to other KLA's: Literacy - talking & listening
Still Images (lesson 1):
- In groups of 5, create a still image of the moment of discovery of the green children
- Tap in: can use simply one word or a sentence to describe what the character is thinking/feeling
- Extend: each group writes a short newspaper report about the discovery, narrates it, then goes into the still image.
- Extend: You could also involve Visual Arts by drawing an image of the Green Children as imagined (as I did above),
* link to other KLA's: Literacy - writing
Group Mapping (lesson 2):
- Activity of the local town where the Green Children were found
- Groups create a map of their version of the town
- Build belief in imaginary world
- Think about geographical features, town community etc.
* link to other KLA's: Maths - position, HSIE
Role Walk (lesson 2):
- Who could live in the town? (shop owners, mayor, farmer, postman, police officer, children, school teachers, undertaker)
- Meeting other town folk: gossiping in role
- Ensure students have a strong attitude to town and events: are framed within the drama
- Make still images of life in the town
- Could do a writing activity: e.g. diary entry as that character
* link to other KLA's: Literacy - talking and listening, writing
Hot Seat (lesson 2):
- Hear the stories of the characters
- Build belief in role and dramatic context
- Ritual enactment: still image of the green boy's funeral/burial, whole class activity. Could do another type of ritual e.g. marriage, first day at school etc.
- Could also do a reading of the lines of the story - students stand in a line and then between each line, they come out and do a monologue based on their character and hot seating.
Another idea that would lend itself well to this structure was provided by Victoria in this handout:
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