My group was:
Sara: girl
Roxi: dad
Jazzmin: mum
- Me (girl) seating in my bedroom writing a note and talking on the phone with my boyfriend, Roxi and Jazzmin (parents) watching TV.
- Me (girl) living home with a bag on her back, looking back to her parents and thinking if it was that she wanted (leave her parents). Parents were sleeping
- Girl and dad (me & Roxi) out of the scene, mum (Jazzmin) very upset reading the note that her daughter left.
Group 3 role-play: sara,roxi,jazzmin
- We used well the space around
- Good use of language
- We could improve it by using stronger facial expressions
Also we were given the lyrics of the song “she’s leaving home” and we had to choose 3 lines. And we had to make up 3 scenes using mime and using the 3 lines I chose use them, one before the song, one during the song and one after she left home. We had to use “Soundscape” to link with each scene, and used narration as an “explorative strategy” .
Lyrics of the song “she’s leaving home”
Wednesday morning and five o’clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her hankerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.
She (We gave her most of our lives)
is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She’s leaving home after living alone
for so many years. Bye, bye.
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that’s lying there
standing alone at the top of stairs
she breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby’s gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
how could she do this to me?
She (We never thought of ourselves)
is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She’s leaving home after living alone
for so many years. Bye, bye.
Friday morning at nine o’clock she is far away
waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.
She (What did we do that was wrong)
is leaving (We didn’t know it was wrong)
Home (Fun is the one thing that money can’t buy)
something inside that was always denied
for so many years. Bye, bye.
She’s leaving home bye bye.
We used mime, tableau and narration as our explorative strategies to explain the meaning of each of these lines. The highlighted lines are the ones we chose.
Development Phase
In the lesson the class had to get into groups and make a role play from the song “She’s leaving home”. As I explained before the song is about a young girl who runs away from home. My group (Sara, Roxi, Jazzmin) so far we had some ideas to change the story,
Characters- me-dad, Jazzmin-mum, Roxi-daughter
Scene 1- the mum (Jazzmin) and daughter (Roxi), were sat in the living room watching TV, phone rings and mum speaking to her friend telling what is been happening between her and her husband. Dad comes home from the pub drunk and stars shouting at the mum because she does not have any dinner, daughter shouts at dad and mum says that she had enough so she starts packing her things up and try’s to take the daughter with her but dad does not let her take their daughter and sends her to her room making her fell alone.
Scene 2- on the next day dad wakes up from the sofa and remembers what happened on the day before, he goes to his daughter room asking for forgiveness but she wasn’t in her room, he looked around the house and he couldn’t find her. So he called the mum and she comes quickly.
Scene 3- mum tells dad to call the police, and after they go and try to find her but they didn’t. The police called the dad to the station because they had found a dead body of a young girl. The parents were worried and hurried to see the body. When they went there mum staid outside and dad went to see the body but luckily it wasn’t their daughter. The parents were happy but no same time their were sad and worried because their daughter is still missing.
Scene 4- dad remembered that she would be in the cemetery so they went there and then they found her sleeping next to her grandmother tombstone sleeping they were so happy and they decided to go home together.
And this is how far we have gone.
