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10. HYSTORY AND DRAMA
10.
HYSTORY AND DRAMA
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History, Literature, Drama Teachers: Silvia Popovici School: Asociatia Demetrius Iași Country: Romania
age of children: 11-12 years old size of group: 25-30 students duration of activity: 1 hour
CONTENT OF ACTIVITY
Students are given a tour of the memorial house of the Romanian writer of history novels Mihail Sadoveanu, offering relevant information about the author ` s life and writings (10 minutes).
The teacher splits the students in 5 groups of 5-6 participants and offers each group an envelope containing fragments from a famous literary work of Mihail Sadoveanu relevant for its historic information. Each group of students is asked to assemble the fragments so that the text to make sense in a given short time, 5-10 minutes, then to read it very quickly.
Then students are asked to choose the roles in the text, including director and act the dialogues in the fragment as the writer himself would do it. After a short preparation period of another 10 minutes each group will give the performance before the other groups which evaluate the performance.
After all representations are finished, the teacher initiates a discussion based on the questions:
How did you feel as an actor/actress in that role?
How did you feel as a spectator of these small history plays?
Have you found out anything new about that historic moment?
Is it important that someone wrote a novel about that historic period hundreds of years later?
Was it difficult for the writer to recreate the historic atmosphere?
Would you like to write a history novel? What historic period would you chose? Why?
Students’ feedbacks: Students were quite enthusiastic about finding out more about the writer, his life and his writings. It was very happy to experience drama and to discuss about the historic moment mentioned in the literary fragment. The activity enhanced their creativity, critical thinking, imagination and sense of details. They mentioned remembering better the historic aspects.
MUZEUL NAȚIONAL AL LITERATURII ROMÂNE IAȘI
(National Museum of Romanian Literature), Iaşi, Romania https://www.muzeulliteraturiiiasi.ro/ Mihail Sadoveanu Museum, Iaşi, Romania https://www.muzeulliteraturiiiasi.ro/muzeul-mihailsadoveanu/
