The Wheelchair on my Face
IMPORTANT: For the activity below we encourage the following:
Nominate one person in your group to share their screen/audio
To share screen - click on the green 'share screen' button in your control bar. Select your screen from the options and tick the box in the bottom corner to 'share sound'
Aim:
To explore developing conversations and questions to deepen engagement with texts
Step 1:
Click on the extract below to listen again.
Click to play
Below are possible junior cycle learning outcomes
(at both Level 2 and Level 3) which may suit this workshop.
*Please note that aspects of this workshop may be adapted for senior cycle.
Step 2:
How does this drama extract make you feel?
How does the vocabulary/sentence structure bring this performance to life?
Can you think of one other possible question to critically engage your students with this extract?
English Bloom's Taxonomy.pdfBlooms Taxonomy
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Further supports for The Wheelchair on my Face
Sonya Kelly is an Irish writer from Dublin. Her first play is the one-woman comedy, drama, The Wheelchair on my Face. In 2012 the show won the Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and it was listed as a critic's pick in The New York Times in 2013.
You can purchase the play from the publisher, Bloomsbury. Click below to access.
In conversation with Sonya Kelly
Click to listen to our conversation with playwright Sonya Kelly
Getting started with... The Wheelchair on My Face by Sonya Kelly.pdfGetting started with... The Wheelchair on my Face
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The Wheelchair on My Face - Read and Respond.pdfRead and Respond featuring an alternate extract and possible activities from the play.
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