Lesson 2

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Speaking with symbols and metaphors

Do the following warm ups to help you understand how to represent ideas symbolically.

Warm up 1

How many A’s in one A?

How Many As.mov

Form a circle. One actor goes in the middle and expresses a feeling or an idea using only the letter A in any of its possible inflections, movement and gestures. All the actors in the circle repeat this . Another actor goes in and the same is repeated for A E I O U then with a single word. In this case representing the word ‘power’ (with sound and movement only),

Warm up 2

Leapfrog

One person bends over with his hands on his knees. His partner jumps with his legs over his back and then bends over with his/her hands on his knees and so on. Students can continue playing so that there are a whole lot of backs to jump over. This game can represent a complex idea such as jumping over hurdles, or building resilience.

Warm up 3

The wooden sword of Paris

Wooden Sword.mov

Two students facing each other, with the leader in front of the group. They fight a duel with imaginary swords. The leader gives 6 different instructions on the following strokes.

As if to chop off the head the opposing leader – in which case all the opposite team must duck
As if to chop off the legs – all the opposing teams must jump
A strike to the right – the actors must jump to the left
A strike to the left – the actors must jump to the right
A clear strike at the middle – the actors jump right or left
A strike forward – the actors jump back

The leader can then decide to make two or three strikes at a time and then the pairs fight as they wish.

Using the same movement as in the game, try to symbolically present one of the following ideas: Hacking or identity theft, trying to fight off trolls, etc.

Focus questions

What levels of symbolic representations can be explored from the above activities?
How can symbolism be used to represent online experiences? (positive or negative).

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