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In Week one we were introduced to the Unit, starting in the lecture with why should we teach the arts the back ground and history of the arts, we learnt all the drama elements such as, contrast, space, tension, mood, time, symbol and focus, then we watched a ted talk with Sir Ken Robinson about if schools kill creativity or help it?

Page 1-28 of the unit text covered how the arts are apart of what it means to be human, the nature of arts education changes as society needs and values change. the research, policies and scholarship to illuminate the nature of arts education for the new era and also how the arts contribute to children's developmental capabilities.

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Week one i was extremley nervous to start university and do drama! but as soon as i got into the classroom i felt welcomed and at ease.
Learning about the history of art really interested me as i didn't know any of it so it has really helped me to develop my undertanding about the background and history.
I did not realise drama had so many different elements so i was really interested and engaged about learning about that.

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In week three we learnt about the development of drama skills, in the lecture we learnt that imagination is the process of forming in the mind new images and how drama and imagination correlates. how to create an environment to promote creativity, by having expectations, risk taking, feedback, lots of time, repetition and group work and also the steps in the creative process which is preparation, incubation, illumination, verification, reapplication and reflection.

we watched films on mime and puppetry and how to do mime.

in our tutorial we got into groups and created a scene using mime only, no speaking just using our bodies trying to be creative.

Pages 199-244 of the unit text covered how drama is an active, participatory and inclusive way for all children to engage in meaning making which is exploring and making sense of their world, the elements of drama and the foundational concepts, knowledge and skills and how drama education in schools helps children's natural instinct for dramatic play by providing them with opportunities to investigate and perform to appreciate drama in social and cultural ways.

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This week really engaged me! i had so much fun developing my skills about mime as i had never watched anything about it and did not know how to do it, so now that i know how to do it is really cool.

i really love in this class how we just use our imagintations and just act around.

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In week six we started a new topic of dance and how it is useful in a classroom with children. the lecture covered the elements of dance which is body, energy, space and time, How dance experiences enables primary students to engage in dance and develop kin-aesthetic intelligence, critical thinking and noticing how the body moves, movement vocab and aesthetic understandings. The benefits of dance is to develop both physical and social skills, learning how to express emotions, allow for development of creativity and encourage imagination, responding to music or sound, exploring different musical styles and understanding social, cultural and historical contexts.

In the tutorial we got into groups of 5 and improvised a routine with certain music.

pages 160-179 of the unit text covered the principles of dance and the elements of it and how to implement it with schools as it benefits the learners.

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Growing up as a dancer this module made me so excited to learn more elements of dance that i was not aware of.
Getting into groups and being able to make a dance was fun and then when we had to keep implementing things to the dance made learning about the elements so much easier as we had to fugure it out and change out dance to implement it which really helped me develop my understandings about each of them.

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WEEKS SIX: Dance

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in week 8 we  touched more on about dance in education and how you can use it.
in the tutorial we played some games, first game was change the movemnet, we all sat in a circle and one person went outside while one person became the leader and starts a movemnet, the person outside comes back in and has to guess who the leader is but the leader is secretly changing the movements without the other persom seeing.

the second game was dance whispers, we had 2 groups in a line and the person on the end of the line game up with 4 movements and then showed the next person, each person showed someone and then the persin on the other end showed everyrone and saw if it chnaged or stayed the same.

the third game we did was birthdate dance, each number had a certain dance move and we had to use those dsnces with our birthdates and show a partner and saw if we remebered it, then we added in our names and used our bodies to create a dance and then perfomed it to the class.

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week 8 was basically futher developing our skills which i feel like i had already developed enough. however, in the class when playing the games i realised that dance is implemented in everything such as the games we were playing.

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Week Twelve: Considering the primary Audience  

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Week Twelve: Considering the primary Audience  

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In Week 12 we learnt about the primary audience and how to make it suitable for them helping us and giving us tips for our group assignment we will be completing. some styles of resposnses when deconstructing and constructing responses to live productions are technicians, narrators, mystics, dramatists and spectators (Weddell,2003). Making and responding are both connected, they both provide students with knowledge, understanding and skills as artists, performers and audience members and develop students skills in crticial and creative thinking.
In the tutorial we started off with a warm up activity called "fluffy duck" we were in a circle and the person in the middle would pretend to shoot someone, that person must dodge the bullet but the 2 people of each side would have a shoot out and whoever was last to shoot is out. This game created a fun atmosphere for everyone and i noticed everyone was enganged and focusing on the game making sure they didnt get out.
we then focused on our group presentations trying to perfect it, making sure we had every detail right and were going to engage the audience.

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I really enjoyed this weeks class as we had time by ourselves in our groups to really focus on our perfomances and mainly discuss how we will engage the audience and grasp their attention.
over the past 13 weeks i have learnt alot about drama and how importance the audience is so knowing and having that knowledge really helped when doing the performance and discussing the auidence.

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WEEK 12: Group performance practice