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    The document summarizes a class about storytelling techniques. It discusses elements of tableau (frozen scenes), different book genres like romance, westerns, and mysteries. It describes an activity where students will get into groups, choose a genre, and create a silent tableau scene based on a description. The class then practices this with the genres of science fiction and comedy. At the end, the teacher chooses group leaders and assigns students to groups to brainstorm pictures handed out by the teacher while speaking to the leaders about their responsibilities.

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    The document summarizes a class about storytelling techniques. It discusses elements of tableau (frozen scenes), different book genres like romance, westerns, and mysteries. It describes an activity where students will get into groups, choose a genre, and create a silent tableau scene based on a description. The class then practices this with the genres of science fiction and comedy. At the end, the teacher chooses group leaders and assigns students to groups to brainstorm pictures handed out by the teacher while speaking to the leaders about their responsibilities.

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    The document summarizes a class about storytelling techniques. It discusses elements of tableau (frozen scenes), different book genres like romance, westerns, and mysteries. It describes an activity where students will get into groups, choose a genre, and create a silent tableau scene based on a description. The class then practices this with the genres of science fiction and comedy. At the end, the teacher chooses group leaders and assigns students to groups to brainstorm pictures handed out by the teacher while speaking to the leaders about their responsibilities.

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    The document summarizes a class about storytelling techniques. It discusses elements of tableau (frozen scenes), different book genres like romance, westerns, and mysteries. It describes an activity where students will get into groups, choose a genre, and create a silent tableau scene based on a description. The class then practices this with the genres of science fiction and comedy. At the end, the teacher chooses group leaders and assigns students to groups to brainstorm pictures handed out by the teacher while speaking to the leaders about their responsibilities.

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    Day 2 – February 2, 2011

    ADA 3M
    Attendance cards from students
    Discussion – story time (10 min)
    Circle
    Impressed with the class yesterday.

    “Tableau”
    • elements of tableau – moment frozen in time, use a variety of stage positions
    (levels) (kneeling, lying down, stretching upward), and gestures. Don't be finicky
    about composing the picture, but attempt to supply enough individual variety for
    an interesting tableau to occur.
    “Book Genres” - used to work the library...
    • Romances tend to be stories that principally focus on love and relationships, and
    may take as a subject a single love relationship, or an individual looking for love.
    • Westerns can be a branch of historical fiction but may more loosely deal with life in
    the wild American west, as it was settled.
    • Mysteries often have characters that investigate crimes or various puzzles.
    • Science fiction tends to use some scientific data as basis for stories, and might
    focus on things like apocalypse scenarios, future worlds, or space travel, to name
    just a few.
    • Fantasy may deal with various “unreal” or magical things, or things not possible in
    the real world, and may contain alternate worlds and/or mythical and made up
    creatures or peoples.
    • Thrillers are sometimes called spy thrillers and might have themes in which spies
    are involved in investigating various events, often on a global scale.
    • Horror may rely on elements like the supernatural, apocalyptic events, or in some
    cases exceptionally graphic cases of murder or mutilation caused by humans or
    other sources.
    • Historical fiction invents characters or deeds for a specific time period and may tell
    the story of that time period through fictional and non-fictional but fictionalized
    characters. A variation of this is the period novel, written either during or after a
    certain time period and particularly emphasizing what it was like to live in that era,
    with perhaps fictional characters as examples.
    “Atom”

    Brainstorming
    • everyone comes up with an idea about... see book genre sheet
    • speak about your favourite scene from a book...
    • Each person in the group shares their idea.
    • Group discusses this and decides which idea they would like best
    • create a tableau scene based on that description
    ◦ levels
    ◦ gestures
    ◦ facial expressions
    ◦ no talking, laughing or smiling (unless your character is doing that in the scene)
    ◦ focus
    • 7 minutes to create first one.
    SCIENCE FICTION
    • create tableau – freeze in your part of the room.

    • Walk, hop, twist, FREEZE (no movement, no talking, serious), walk, twist COMEDY
    (x to part of the room where they were before and get into tableau). SAFETY FIRST.
    Walk, hop, slither ATOM 6.
    • Second Genre – same procedure as above. 5 minutes 27 seconds.
    • RINSE, REPEAT.

    Back to the circle

    Team Leaders -
    I have chosen Five team leaders – everyone will get a chance to be a team leader
    throughout this course. The team leaders will have different responsibilities depending
    on the project. This will be your first major assignment for the semester. I feel that you
    are all ready for the challenge.

    NAME GROUPS

    I will hand out a drawing to each group. While I speak to the team leaders the rest of the
    group will begin brainstorming about the picture.

    Team leaders – speak to me

    “With great power comes great responsibility” - Uncle Ben to Spiderman


    You will serve as the “directors” of the project.
    • This does not mean that you do all of the work, HOWEVER it does mean that
    you are responsible for the karma of the group – maintaining balance –
    delegating, not the boss, but the coordinator.
    • Establish good working conditions and if there is a stalemate, come to me to
    discuss
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