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5 thoughts on “Atlanta Report – 4 bis”
How many students per day do you do for Circling with Balls? I find it difficult to stick with only one or two students a day, sometimes I gotta do 3 or 4. It’s still a struggle to “drag things out” for me. I don’t know if that’s a common thing for everybody or if it’s an ADD thing and I just get bored easily and feel the need to move on to something else
Hi Chris,
I circled balls with 3-4 students per day until I had done everyone in the room. Took most of two weeks. That was about 20 minutes of class each day for two weeks.
That’s about what I do, Bob, half the class pd. , 2-4 kids.
Chris, a good place to take it into if you get bored is to ask “Where?” and then watch as a good extended PQA session often happens from that.If the PQA is flat, just play the where card. That’ll pick it up, esp. if the place the class decides on is local and therefore interesting to them.
I use a technique I learned in improv comedy classes to perk up circling with balls. The first year I tried circling with balls, I felt things dragging and things were too expected. She plays (insert sport) with (insert famous athlete) and student wins. So I changed out the objects used in the sport. She plays volleyball–with a ball? Ridiculous! With what? A cannon ball? Of course, you’re right? What do they use for a net? etc. You can imagine the “movie” playing in the head becomes much sharper with all those details. The only downside is allowing one-word answers in English, which I don’t usually do in storytelling. I soften that with making them ask, “como se dice” before their chosen word.
I like this idea, thanks for sharing! A nice way to mix it up. I wish there were improv classes around here.