Drama

It's interesting to see that drama sort of has the same issue being implemented into the classroom as technology, despite having been around longer. Both seem more of frivolous than a commodity in a lot of educators eyes. I had two English teachers in high school with completely opposite end of the spectrum opinions on drama. The one teacher loved drama, constantly having the class act out scenes from the story in order to better understand the material. The other was under the unbending opinion that drama was a waste of time and that "having students pitifully reenact scenes by stumbling over lines and butchering the source material" did not help the learning process at all. Understandably, these two did not like each one another and wouldn't even be in the same teacher's lounge at the same time.

Now, I admit the one teacher had us act out scenes a little too often for my liking, but I could see it help some other students understand exactly what was going on in material such as the Iliad or how there were many different facets of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

It was nice to read Pririe's article and see the different ways drama was implemented into the classroom and how it was more than a novelty to the teachers and the students.