Be in the Mystery: Separate, Isolate, Recombine...

Happy Monday to you,

      Every story has a history, and every history has a story.  We will attempt to tell the story of the Great Depression with the tableaux we create this week.  As we conduct our analysis and synthesis this week remember that nothing in history happens in isolation.  There are always bigger things at work.  There always seem to be multiple things that need to be taken into account.  That said, when we analyze we think in terms of BEFORE/DURING/AFTER.

      There is a neat trick that can help our analysis.  Keep this neat trick in mind as we move into our groups, revisit our graffiti, look through our texts, and conduct our tableaux:
1. SEPARATE.  
2. ISOLATE.  
3. RECOMBINE.  

      The Tableaux strategy is a series of scenes presented by groups of four to eight students who

are frozen in poses or positions that depict an historical event, famous speech, scientific concept, or scene from a novel. One student reads the Tableaux captions while the others create the scene being described (Wilhelm 2002). The Tableaux script can be based on existing text (textbook, novel, short story, magazine article) or original text written in response to something the students have read or studied.  Below, you will find the link to the youtube video we watched last week.  What makes a good tableaux?  What are some different variations or ways to make our tableaux different?  Enjoy, and have fun together.

Tableau: Theater and Language

Yours truly,

C

From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy