MYP Shakespeare Performances|“遇见”莎士比亚
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文/ Dr. Matthew Terrett-初中部
编译/文宣部
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2024年3月28日,海归学校初中部举办了首届莎士比亚戏剧展演,取得了巨大的成功。让三个年级的学生能够协调有序并表演不同的莎士比亚作品,是一段相当长的旅程。
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“莎士比亚戏剧节”这个概念来源于8年级英语课堂上学生和老师们的“一拍即合”。我们想把重点放在话剧《麦克白》的表演和文学价值上。最初只有8名学生参与,但随着新一批8位学生加入第二单元“什么是戏剧?”,我们意识到,原来的计划需要扩展一下了。
这引发了与六年级英语老师的讨论,G6的学生正在第三单元“世界是一个舞台吗?”学习莎士比亚。于是我们决定让G6也参与筹备演出,我们可以设立一个“莎士比亚周”——在英国,这是学生会常规举办的一个文学节。
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六年级的学生选择表演《威尼斯商人》中的法庭场景。而八年级的学生已经创作了一个大幅缩减版的《麦克白》,作为他们第二单元“什么是戏剧?”的总结性评估,同时学生们也考虑到了表演中可能会经历的一些挑战。
随着演出日期的临近,六年级和八年级的学生都花了越来越多的时间在剧场里排练他们的角色。对于G6来说,大部分时间都花在让学生对场景中的台词和动作做出及时反应。而对于G8的学生来说,主要挑战是确保大家知道何时上场和下场,并将表演时间减少到20分钟或更短。
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七年级的学生们一开始并没有参与,因为只有少数学生学习过莎士比亚。然而,随着活动时间的临近,一些学生表示他/她们也想参与进来。于是,诞生了两段莎士比亚十四行诗的朗读(学生们已经学习了这种诗歌形式)和一个《暴风雨》的表演片段。这些学生在活动前只有一个晚上的准备时间和一次排练的机会。在这么短的时间内,大家真的表现很出色!
“大日子”终于来临,所有的学生都发挥出了自己最好的水平,成功地完成了表演。观众们似乎很享受整场演出,虽然不确定大家听懂了多少——正如麦克白的扮演者所说,“莎士比亚是早期现代英语,很多我都不太懂。” 不过,很明显的是,通过所有这些练习和表演,学生们学到了很多东西,并获得了信心。老师们在这个过程中也学到了很多,我已经开始期待明年的“莎士比亚周”了!
OCAC’s first ever middle school performance in appreciation of Shakespeare’s writing took place on the 28th March 2024 and was a great success. Getting to the point where ELL students across three grades were able to successfully coordinate and perform different Shakespearean pieces was quite a journey.
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The concept that gradually turned into this wonderful festival of Shakespeare Performances originated in a plan agreed between students and teacher in the Grade 8 ELL classroom. We wanted to focus on the play Macbeth as a performance as well as for its literary merits. Initially there were only eight students involved, but as eight more students joined the class in our Unit 2: What’s the Drama?, we realized that the original plan would need to be expanded to involve the new students.
This led to discussion with the Grade 6 ELL teacher, whose students were studying Shakespeare in their Unit 3: Is all the world a stage? It was decided that they too would prepare a performance and we decided that Shakespeare Week, a literary festival for school children in the UK, would be a very appropriate date to aim for.
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Grade 6 ELL students chose to perform the courtroom scene from The Merchant of Venice. Grade 8 ELL students had already created a drastically reduced version of Macbeth as part of their Unit 2: What’s the Drama? summative assessment and had considered some of the challenges involved in performing.
As the date drew nearer, both Grade 6 and Grade 8 students spent increasing amounts of class time in the auditorium practicing their parts. For Grade 6, much of the time was spent on trying to get the students to act responses to the lines and actions in the scene they were performing. For Grade 8 students, the main challenge was to ensure students knew when to go on and off the stage to reduce the time of the performance to 20 minutes or less.
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Grade 7 ELL were not so involved in this festival of Shakespeare because only three of the students in the class had studied any Shakespeare. However, as the time for the event drew near, several students said they would like to get involved. This resulted in two readings of Shakespeare’s sonnets (the students having studied the sonnet form) and a performance of a very short extract from The Tempest. These students only had one evening to prepare and one practice prior to the event so they really did a fantastic job given such short notice!
Finally, the big day arrived, and all the students achieved a personal best for their parts to carry the performances off very successfully. The audience seemed to enjoy the performances even though it is doubtful that many understood what they were listening to. As the actor who played Macbeth himself explained, “Shakespeare is Early Modern English, but I don’t understand that English.” Nevertheless, it was clear that the students learned a lot and gained in confidence through all the practice and the performance itself. Teachers learned a lot through the process too and I am already looking forward to next year’s MYP ELL Shakespeare Performances!
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