Submitted by: Sheryl Gibson
School: Deep Run High School
Summary
After studying the medieval morality play, Everyman, students will brainstorm teen morality issues today (i.e. dress code, cheating, drinking, smoking, bullying, etc.) and create their own morality play ideas. Students will work collaboratively to write, perform and video tape their plays. Plays can then be posted on the theatre webpage and also used in our weekly advisory lessons on closed circuit t.v. at school. Administration may use dress code and other school-related videos in community/school sessions for orientation, etc.
TIPC Ratings
The lesson is approaching because students used information from the play they read and some example videos shown in class to begin the brainstorming process to create their videos. Students looked up school policies on the issues they addressed in their videos and researched facts and figures on peer pressure, bullying and school integrity. All groups used their research information to create their videos.
The lesson meets approaching in this category. Students had to work collaboratively to write, perform, shoot and edit their videos. Students worked in areas of their strengths, but also took turns trying out and helping in other tasks. Students used a variety of technology to create the videos by filming on phones, iPods and video cameras. Editing was done on school computers in class as well as at home. Students filmed most scenes in the school, yet some went beyond that and filmed outside of school as well. Audiences will include the student body of the high school, the school district and a global audience on SchoolTube.
Students met approaching on this standard because we had a preliminary review of each video in class. Students and teacher gave feedback to each group about what worked and didn’t work in their videos so that they could improve the overall product for the intended audience. Groups reflected on their product and process in an effort to improve the results.
In terms of creativity and innovation the students were approaching as they went beyond my original expectations. Students came up with ideas that would reach out to their peers to share important messages about real life teen issues. Students stepped outside the box with their creative storytelling to show teens that values/morals do still matter today as much as they did to the society in medieval times.
