oral storytelling performance

PART A

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The Task

Create a three (3) minute VIDEO oral storytelling performance based on the theme of a personal/ family journey – from your own experience/family history. There needs to be a moral/insight associated with the story.

Why are you being assessed on this?

Oral storytelling is one of the dramatic art forms you will need to teach. The elements and principles of Drama, scripting and performing are part of the curriculum for the Drama Making strand of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts for Early Childhood and Primary children. In your performance you will need to demonstrate your own capabilities to use the elements of Drama and the principles of dramatic performance  so you can effectively meet your teaching responsibilities

Length

   3 minutes (+ or – 30 seconds)

Format for submission

Guidance for completing the task

1 The journey chosen for your oral storytelling is any journey that has some personal significance for you: shifting house, a holiday, a journey through illness, or a family story of a journey by your ancestors.  This is to be a story of your own devising (not one found in a book).

2. While the performance is the end result, it is important that you understand this activity as a process. This means brainstorming ideas, developing a story, reworking it to make an engaging performance, rehearse and finalise the performance

3. You should apply At a Glance: Steps for developing stories for storytelling 

4. It is important you show your understanding of the elements of drama by employing them in your performance.  How will you use facial expressions, gesture, voice quality, pacing etc to turn a story into a performance?

5. You can deliver your performance to an audience in the same room as you (children or adults) or to the camera, and audible in the video.

6. You can use props as you consider appropriate. Your effective use of props is more important than whether you use them or not. If they add to the performance then use them. If they detract then don’t.

7 The moral of the story (message, insight or lesson learned) needs to be explicit. You can tell the viewer as part of your performance or include it in written form as part of the video.

PART B

View a video clip of a dramatic production suitable for children (School Years Foundation to Yr 6) and observe how the elements of drama have been used in the performance.

Select three elements to discuss. Explain how these three elements are evident in the drama and the way they have been used to contribute to the storytelling.

Analysing dramatic works forms part of the curriculum for the Drama Responding strand of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts for Early Childhood and Primary. In your written submission you will need to demonstrate your understanding of the elements of Drama and your capability to analyse dramatic performances, so you can effectively meet your teaching responsibilities.

Length:

Word count: 200-250 words for each element (600-750 words total). This includes all text (headings, in-text citations, captions and direct quotes). It excludes the Reference List.

Guidance for completing the task:

1. Review the section in your text, Foundations of drama literacy: concepts, knowledge  and skills.

2. Undertake online research to amplify your understanding of the elements of drama

3. Review the video clip to analyse – . Choose a piece of drama that gives you some good material to discuss.

4. Select the 3 elements you wish to discuss and draw up a list of the points you could make. Use this to draft your response.

5. Use correct presentation format: heading, introductory paragraph that explains what follows etc. You could use the three elements as sub-headings.

6. Remember to add a link to the video clip you have used.

Part C

Complete the Reflective Drama Practitioner Worksheet below.

Reflection is a significant part of the learning process. It is also an integral part of teaching practice and is an important professional capability to develop.

Length:

The maximum words for any numbered section should be no more than 200 words. Most will be less than this. 

Guidance for completing the task:

1. In an educational context, reflection has to be MORE than a personal feeling of satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Instead you are asked to reflect on the experience and what you learned from it. 

2. Your responses should be contextualised within professional knowledge and understandings. This means you need to think about the learning experience in the context of the readings, viewings, discussions and activities you have completed. Your aim is to ‘make visible’ the degree to which you can examine the learning experience within the context of the unit’s content and purpose. (See the example below.)

3. Since this is about your experience, you should write in the first person using a professional tone. For example, “When I played back my video I noticed that my presentation seemed flat. I re-read the section on elements of drama and noted how creating tension contributed to the dramatic experience. I reorganised some sections of the story to create a stronger sense of anticipation and found it made the performance more engaging.“

4. Write succinctly.  No more than 200 words in any numbered section. Most will be less than that. Use a narrative style rather than bullet points. Use in-text citations and add the reference at the end of the document.