Inspired by the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, this project was centered around this essential question, "What tribes do we belong to?". We then wrote poems about our peers and created performances utilizing all the poetry and performance skills we've learned since the first day of school. Some groups performed about "Unspoken Rules" others performed our "I Sing to You"poems, and other groups performed songs they wrote and any other works of art they created. This project was a great way to start off our year because we got to learn a lot about not just our peers but also ourselves. Project descriptionDialogical Interview Once we knew how to perform poetry from the House on Mango Street performances, we needed to learn how to write our own pieces! Specifically how to write poetry for a client. Our teachers started out by putting the whole class into pairs. Then we spent almost an hour interviewing our partners and asking them these questions...
And any other questions we felt were necessary. | House on mango street performancesThese readings were really the kick start of the whole project. It got us in the zone of performing and spoken word. We we're given chapters from the book House on Mango Street, and were asked to recite and perform them for the class. To do so we split up the lines from the chapter so that everyone had a piece to read, then we found objects around the class room to add sound effects to our performances. For example, one of the lines from our reading was "-like running your fingers against the teeth of a metal comb". So the sound we turned that into a sound by running a binder clip against the ridges on the back of the chair. What this did was give the audience an idea of what running your fingers against a metal comb sounds like and made our piece more interesting to listen to. "I sing to you" poemsThese poems were the ones we created based on our interviews with our partners or "clients".Below are a few on the drafts I wrote. |
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Alec PattonPrior to joining High Tech High, Alec worked at the Innovation Unit in London, England. The Innovation Unit is a non-profit company that works with the people who provide public services to help them find innovative solutions to difficult problems. While he was working at the Innovation Unit, Alec wrote and/or edited several publications about innovative education around the world. He also wrote lots and lots of blog posts. DIGItal portfolioArchives
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