UNIT 2 😁

 


Hello and welcome back! This blog will cover what was talked about in unit two which was multimodal composition. While we covered multiple ways to achieve multimodal composition like turning school lessons into games like Mr. Cullum in the video "A Touch of Greatness" or making literature engaging, my favorite was process drama. And one thing that blows my mind is how much improv can help students connect with readings. It was an article we read in class written by Lauren Esposito. As I said in my discussion post on the 22nd, improv scares THE LIVING CRAP out of me. Improv is supposed to be fun, thinking off the top of your head, but to me, that sounds absolutely terrifying. I am not good with thinking off my feet and being put on the spot like that is so much pressure. I am not good under pressure. But after reading this article, I learned so much and was extremely surprised. 

Improvisation is used far more often than just for theater and acting. It gives students a different set of tools for improving communication and collaboration skills in the classroom. We did something sort of similar in class on the 27th. As I am sure you all remember, our assignment for the 27th was to pick a character from the story TO had given us in the class before. From that character we chose, we created a testimony of what we believed or pictured that character was feeling in a specific part of the story. It was an interesting activity because those who were similar to the story were probably able to do this activity very easily. But I struggled a little bit because I wasn't that familiar with the story and it was harder for me to put myself in those shoes. I had to improv a little bit. But my favorite was the activity we did after that. While I was not brave enough to participate, the students who
did were hilarious. so we read the short story about the grocer's children and how they were fed old disgusting food. A few volunteers were given different characters and they acted out like they were on a talk show. It was by far one of the funniest things I've seen. This was literally me the entire time while watching them perform together. But because of this activity, I was able to look at a story with very little information and was able to see it in different ways. It really helped me get a better understanding of the story, especially from different perspectives. 
(I have no idea why this site won't let me place my pictures where I want them, it messes up my text and it makes me mad haha)
 
But anyway, thanks to multimodal composition, I now have new ways of understanding the readings I get for class. 






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