Sunday, January 20, 2008
The teaching of drama
After the first class with Miss Baiti, a question mark appears in my mind. Am i capable to "TEACH" drama to my students? I don't think I really understand it either, especially the Greek drama. The dialogues seem to be groups of familiar alphabet yet the meanings are so hard to predict. Although i have expected it to be hard (which means it's full of 'thou', 'thee'...etc), yet it really drives me to my limit reading Oedipus Rex. We were given some time to understand the prologue in the first class, and there are still lots of scenes to go. A big challenge to overcome, i think.
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I think that is the biggest challenge for teacher to overcome. we have to teach them the culture of the text.I think Dr Fauziah lessons would help us a lot in overcoming this matter. Give them background knowledge of the culture, activate their own schemata and so on. Try to make the lesson familiar to them. I know it is going to be such a drag especially teaching Oedipus Rex. But what can we do, 'Fate' overpower human will. We are going to be a teacher.
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