Acting out is a game which involves your creativity, writing skills, speaking skills, teamwork and… acting
Reading comprehension: The students will read about the different characters, relate to them and be able to play them out in a scene. Their understanding of the character sheet will enable them to act them out.
Writing: The group will write a script for their characters.
Speaking: By creating and acting out a scene with the characters the students read about, you will be able to evaluate their speaking ability and check for vocabulary use, fluency and proper grammar use.
How to play
1. In teams of 3-4, read the given character sheet and choose a character for each teammate.
2. Write a 150-300 word script. Invent a storyline which employs the characters you chose. Our tip - the more creative you are, the better the writing process will be!
3. Send the final script to your English teacher via email.
4. Act out the script in a zoom recording. The recording is to be 3-5 minutes.
5. Upload the recording to Flipgrid to be viewed by everyone.
6. Write a comment on ONE clip you enjoyed (not as a group, individually). You will be given a password in advance.
Teacher Instructions
1) Create a Flipgrid classroom activity with its own password for the students to upload their final product. Instruct your class on how to use and upload videos to Flipgrid, and how to edit them.
2) Create an evaluation rubric.
3) Divide the class into a 3-4 student groups
4) Give each group a list containing characters sheets and ask them to read it.
5) Divide the groups into breakout rooms on zoom where they will choose their characters and decide on and write their script.
6) Handout the evaluation rubric and explain if necessary.
7) For each breakout room assign a student whose job is to record the scene.
8) Have the student upload their final recording onto Flipgrid.com
9) Tell the students to individually to write a comment on a classmates work
10) Do a showing of the different scenes created and have the class pick a “winner”
You may use the given characters sheet or create your own.
This way you can adapt the characters and the situations being acted to different life issues you wish to teach.
Charakter Sheet (example)
Ezra - Ezra is a musician type who is also quite the ladies man. He has major trust issues after his ex-girlfriend cheated on him with his ex-best friend. Ezra joins the new high-school and starts a band. Although Ezra flirts with just about every girl he meets, he appears to flirt with Payton the most, hinting that he has romantic feelings for her.
Payton - Payton is a cheerful girl who is now beginning to study at a new high - school. She transferred because in her old high-school, she forgot to throw a party for her best friend (now ex-best friend) which caused her to be a social outcast. Payton loves to party and shop. Payton discovered that she is adopted and due to this, she once adopted a bunch of animals so that they could have a home like her. When she first transferred to the new school, she appeared to have a crush on Julian and was jealous of him and Autumn's relationship, but she moved on. Later, Payton is hinted to have a crush on Ezra.
Sakura - Sakura is the best friend of Nishan. After Nishan leaves high-school without her she gets upset and doesn't talk to him for a long time. It is strongly hinted that Nishan and Sakura have feelings for each other, and it is also hinted that she may have feelings for Ezra as well. Sakura is the gamer type and it is shown that gaming helps her significantly in real life, like finding games to help her with school studies. Sakura is known to hate art because it is the only thing that she can't use gaming to help her with. Sakura is shown to be very competitive towards others.
Nishan - Nishan is a nerd type. Nishan originally would do favors for Max, which prevented him from getting bullied. Nishan eventually realizes that he should be going to a school where people accept him for who he is and not for what he does for others. He then moved to the new high-school. Nishan is best friends with Sakura and is hinted to have feelings for her. Nishan is shown to be very interested in science and robotics.
Evaluation
Thinking creatively and outside the box.
Actively integrating different parts from the information received (the characters you chose) into your own personal writing.
Well written and organized content and language use (grammar, vocabulary, mechanics and content). A rubric with an explanation will be presented in class.