LEARNING GOAL: Experiment with more "social deduction" games.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Move chairs to the east for an audience. Play Hep NEW GAME: Two Rooms & a Boom This game has two teams pitted against each other. The red team wants their bomber to end the game in the same room as the president. The blue team wants their president separate from the bomber at the end. There are three timed rounds, and players are traded at the end of each round. DO NEXT: Plan the semester By my calculations, we will be in this class 11 more times. What should we do with that remaining time? Practice existing games? Learn new games? Set a ritualized week?
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LEARNING GOAL: Reflect on the semester.
DO NOW: Sit around the center tables for the agenda. Don't move tables today. Play Pirate Ship or Cat & Mouse ASSIGNMENT: Why Theater Games? Justify the class. Is this a course that should be offered again? If so, why? DO NEXT: Plan the semester By my calculations, we will be in this class 12 more times. What should we do with that remaining time? Practice existing games? Learn new games? Set a ritualized week? LEARNING GOAL: Practice workshops for Wednesday.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Move chairs to the east for an audience. Play Egyptian Writing One player understands how the game works. Others should use observation skills to determine how the game works. DO NEXT:Practice workshops! We are scheduled to take over middle school town hall next week, Wednesday. 1) Explain the game. 2) Take volunteers. 3) Run one round of the game. 4) Side-coach as necessary ORDER: 1) Chain Murder (w/Makenna, Hannah & Fynn) 2) Double Blind Freeze (w/Myeisha & Lee) 3) Hitchhiker (w/Jeidy & Wilson) 4) Lines From a Hat (w/Willow, Haze & Ruth) Others by choice. LEARNING GOAL: Practice workshops for next Wednesday.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Move chairs to the east for an audience. Play Hep until our guest audience arrives. DO NEXT:Practice workshops! We are scheduled to take over middle school town hall next week, Wednesday. 1) Explain the game. 2) Take volunteers. 3) Run one round of the game. 4) Side-coach as necessary ORDER: 1) Dr. Know-it-All (w/Saturn & Jaidyn) 2) Lines From a Hat (w/Willow, Haze & Ruth) 3) Double Blind Freeze (w/Myeisha & Lee) 4) Chain Murder (w/Makenna, Hannah & Fynn) 5) Hitchhiker (w/Jeidy & Wilson) 6) Freeze (w/Veronica, Gavin & Brayden) Any groups that don't facilitate today, or that want to revise their facilitation for Skyward, may try again on Monday and Tuesday. LEARNING GOAL: Practice facilitating games.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Make a ring of 14 chairs. Who Started the Motion PLAY: Lines From a Hat Willow, Haze & Ruth will facilitate. PLAY: Hitchhiker Jeidy & Wilson will facilitate. WARM/COOL FEEDBACK: What went well with feedback? What could be improved? LEARNING GOAL: Practice facilitating games.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Make a ring of 14 chairs. Play Cat & Mouse (dance room until 10:20) PLAY: Chain Murder Makenna, Hannah, Finn will facilitate. PLAY: Freeze Veronica, Gavin, Brayden will facilitate. WARM/COOL FEEDBACK: What went well with facilitation? What could be improved? LEARNING GOAL: Practice facilitating games.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Make a ring of 14 chairs. Play Cat & Mouse FACILITATION: Notes Workshop notes (assignment). This will be your artifact for PoLs as well. PLAY: Lines From a Hat Willow, Haze & Ruth will facilitate. PLAY: Hitchhiker Jeidy & Wilson will facilitate. WARM/COOL FEEDBACK: What went well with feedback? What could be improved? LEARNING GOAL: Practice facilitating games.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Make a ring of 14 chairs. Play Cat & Mouse (no, for real this time) FACILITATION: How To Introduce game by title. Explain rules verbally. Demonstrate. Select players. Some games require additional facilitation (choosing prompts from the audience, calling freeze, etc) PLAY: Chain Murder Makenna, Hannah, Finn will facilitate. PLAY: Freeze Veronica, Gavin, Brayden will facilitate. WARM/COOL FEEDBACK: What went well with feedback? What could be improved? LEARNING GOAL: Plan middle school workshop.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Make a ring of 15 chairs. Play Hep WARM UP: Pirate Ship WORKSHOP PLANNING: Theater Games Town Hall High school or middle school? How do we divide our class, and the students? How much time to teach games? How much time to present? What games would we play? How do we reflect afterwards? PLAY: Subway LEARNING GOAL: Introduce requested games.
DO NOW: Set up the room. Push the tables to the edge of the room. Make a ring of 15 chairs. Play Bippity Bippity Bop WARM UP: Dr. Know-It-All (competition style) Two doctors will alternate answering questions from the audience. The audience will applaud the more entertaining doctor. WORKSHOP PLANNING: Theater Games Town Hall High school or middle school? How do we divide our class, and the students? How much time to teach games? How much time to present? What games would we play? How do we reflect afterwards? |
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