How To Teach Drama

Toddler drama triggers mum's labour

“If it wasn’t for Caroline, Conor wouldn’t be here. It is as simple as that,” Conor’s mother Samantha told The Mayo News. “She saved his life and I want to send a huge thank you to Caroline and to the Castlecourt. She acted immediately. She was a good bit away but saw what happened and got over there quickly. In situations like that, the first moments are so vital and if people don’t react swiftly, it can easily be fatal. Before they knew it, Conor had gone blue and had stopped breathing. “I was in the changing rooms when most of what happened with Conor was taking place … Thank God I missed most of it. But it still was very stressful. Afterwards, while Conor was recovering, his body was freezing cold and in shock because your blood rushes to protect your major organs in incidents like that. We brought him to the doctor that day and he was okay again that evening. “I didn’t realise the seriousness of the situation at the time but, looking back, it was very scary. Brian told me that Conor’s face had gone blue and that he reckoned he only had a few short seconds to live. It can take as little as two minutes for someone to die from choking and I was very shaken afterwards because he was touch and go,” Caroline told The Mayo News. “All the lifeguards here are Royal Lifesavers Society trained. That training incorporates  drownings, but we do a lot more, including situations like this. We insist on going on courses once a month to refresh everything so that it will be fresh in our heads – and something like this shows how important that is,” added Caroline, Assistant Manager at the C Club.

From the Files of a Tricksy Mama: How To Teach Literary Theory On ...

From the Files of a Tricksy Mama: How To Teach Literary Theory On The Sly Once you get past the elementary school level, your success as an educator is highly correlated with your capacity for trickery.  (This is particularly true if your students are afflicted with Y-Chromosome Syndrome.)  Adolescent and adult education almost always requires fooling people into learning something they weren't planning to.

Of course, if you're dealing with the truly gifted ( :cough, cough: ), you may already have developed some of these skills in elementary school.  I've lost count of the number of books I've started as a read-aloud, only too declare it "too hard/boring/long to keep going" so that a Certain Someone will just read it his own darn self.  (Homeschooling Mama Trick #2: Lure them into the funhouse and then let them think staying there was their own idea.)

Recently I introduced this same Certain Someone to advanced literary theory through similarly devious means.

We're working through a writing curriculum this summer to alleviate the disparity between his middle school writing experience and the middle school writing experience that most of his high school classmates will have had.  We began at a fairly easy level.  (Homeschooling Mama Trick #7: Make them think it will be easy, then pull a bait-and-switch.)

The bait-and-switch came rather sooner than I expected, thanks in large part to that Certain Someone's own disinclination to work any harder than he has to.

One early exercise in the curriculum is intended to introduce the student to basic literary concepts: plot, characterization, narrative voice, etc.  It asked a set of rudimentary questions--Who is the main character/protagonist of the story?  Who is the antagonist?  What is the main conflict?  How is the conflict resolved?  Where is the climax of the story?  Certain Someone was supposed to read a novel and answer the questions accordingly.

Certain Someone decided that a short story should be good enough.  So he asked if he could use the first story in Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown .  It's short, after all, and a cute little mystery story--nothing complex or intellectual to have to deal with.

I refrained from crowing and solemnly gave my ostensibly grudging permission.

@ I think I may have to teach you how to use twitter its better than drama site facebook lol

@ I like the sound of that better(:we need to open up a place like TestMasters except we just teach people how to avoid drama!

Got some soothing music right now to block off all dis drama. Gonna listen to Teach Me How To Dougie and fantasize about @

*hands her nollywood script* RT @: Can someone pls teach me how to be a drama queen right now,cos I need to be dramatic.

Can someone pls teach me how to be a drama queen right now,cos I need to be dramatic.

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