English Theater Week / Grades 8-13
Learn English through theater, drama and performance. Our Theater Project Weeks connect students with native English-speaking actors, writers and directors to write, produce, rehearse and perform an original play in front of friends and family. Students cultivate their own learning by engaging their personal creativity in a supportive environment. Theater is ideally suited to differentiated instruction, allowing each participant to find meaningful roles in the project and to practice their public speaking.
How it works
The English Theater Week takes place over 5-days, each day students receive 5-6 instruction hours. Over the course of the week, students will develop an idea, turn the idea into a script, be cast in a role, rehearse their part and do a live stage performance in English.
Every week includes:
Team Building Activities - to build an Ensemble
Theater and improvisation games
Ideation - creative concept development
Scriptwriting
Rehearsal
A live performance
And games and sports for active breaks from the theater work
The highlight of the English Theater Week is a live performance on Friday afternoon for students families and other pupils.
IMPACT
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Build confidence, overcome inhibitions and bring ideas to the stage in English;
Improve public speaking and articulation;
Practice creative writing including dialogue, prose and monologues;
Build vocabulary relating to the chosen theme and the theater;
Each participant guaranteed a speaking role in the final 20-35-minute performance;
Practice non-verbal communication through physical movement.
CREATIVE COMPETENCIES
Learn theater skills and techniques from professional actors
Learn accountability to the group through a collaborative process
Foster initiative and leadership skills
Strengthen ability to improvise and the willingness to take risks
Practice creative problem-solving skills
Work together as a team towards a collective goal.
