A cool thing happened today when I was asking how an actor (in the tent story) felt in reaction to being scared by a ghost, and how the ghost felt. All the kids’ eyes shot up to the list of answers to greetings over the board. This list was created first by Sabrina and was first used in her classroom at Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver around 2012-2013. I got all sorts of answers because the answers (not just “I’m o.k.” but really creative answers like “I’m spaced out/out of it.”) were right there in front of the kids who because of their location in the top front of the room were able to use them in the story. The kids were also pulling from the list of “Director’s Cues” vocabulary next to the greetings vocabulary list. This list is an even more extensive list used to flesh out more creative responses to questions about acting details in class.
Links to those two sets of posters can be found here:
https://benslavic.com/blog/38635/
https://benslavic.com/blog/directors-cues-english/