Mythology and Drama with Ms. Singer

The week begins with drama activities that are designed to help students explore how to use their bodies, faces, and voices to convey an emotion to an audience. After learning about the major gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece, they play a game in which two gods/goddesses meet and converse; the goal for the students is to include as many facts as possible in a minute's improvisation! Students also read and act out the myths of "Persephone and Demeter," "Orpheus and Eurydice", "Prometheus and the Gift of Fire", and "Pandora's Box".

The children enjoyed practicing improvisation. As Ms. Singer called out an emotion, the students quickly became that emotion:

Devious		Suspicious

Ecstatic		Shy

Angry

The ills that trouble mankind all huddle inside Pandora's box.

When Pandora opens the box, the ills are set free (spite, jealousy, disease, old age, famine, drought, poverty, war, grief and misery).

Last update: 4-17-01/mgl