1. Using drama to promote English
language and social skills.
Drama residency classes conducted by Dan Kelin II, HTY’s Director of
Education. He is a nationally recognized Master Teaching Artist.
http://www.kennedy-
center.org/education/partners/touringbrochure/teacher/teachers.cfm

2. To begin, the class experiments with drama strategies,
learning to take risks, trust their instincts and how to
express ideas physically and vocally.

3. Individuals and groups take turns reading
one section at a time, investigating each
section as it is read.

4. Students work in small groups to create
ways through drama strategies to express
their understanding of the story.

5. Students work in
small groups to
create ways through
drama strategies to
express their
understanding of the
story.

6. Groups share their
dramatizations.
Fellow students
describe how the
performers
expressed ideas.

7. At each stage in the reading, groups create
dramatizations that predict what will happen next
in the story.

8. The whole class together explore a
scientific explanation for how the ocean
came to be.

9. Pairs and small
groups reflect
and share ideas
of how science
and the cultural
story compare
and contrast.