[etni] Producing a play with Ninth Graders

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Dear Etnians,
I would like to share with you a wonderful experience. For English Day - an 
annual event at our school, Kadoorie in the Lower Gallilee, I was asked to put 
on a short play with pupils who volunteered from the Ninth Grade. I myself do 
not teach ninth grade this year so was free during their lessons to rehearse. 
It is a tradition at Kadoorie that every spring the ninth graders have an 
English Day - a veritable extravaganza following more than a month of hard 
preparation. Each group takes on a different English speaking country and 
examine different cultural, geographical, historical, environmental, 
traditional aspects of it. The research is carried out in small groups and the 
material is initially presented to the whole class before being enlarged upon 
as an exhibit for English Day. The different countries are then visited by 
other classes (this year the order of the day was home room classes). During 
each visit, the various groups are activated with quizzes, games video and 
Power point presentations whilst sample traditional food and drinks from the 
particular country are served. 
After the big break, all the teachers and students came together in the dining 
room to watch the play - an adaptation of part of "My Fair Lady" (written by 
myself) and then take part in a concert of country and western music and square 
dancing, rock 'n roll etc. 
Even though the old saying claims that "The proof is in the eating", I beg to 
differ on this occasion. I would say that the proof is rather in the 
preparation, both of the various exhibits (South Africa, Ireland, Scotland, 
England, U.S.A. and Australia/New Zealand) and in the rehearsals for the play. 
The ninth graders were a captive audience and the actors thoroughly enjoyed 
themselves - not to mention the fact that they were imbued with not a little 
British culture and language. 
Anyone who is interested and/or courageous enough to try out a little drama in 
class, I will be happy to send you the script. 
Don't forget, the Pessach vacation is nigh.
Chag Sameach
Judy Astary.
 
                
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