Learning Exercise
Everything I needed to know about history I learned at a fashion show
Ideas for using the Braun and Scheider site for social studies theater games
Course: SEED 415
- Material:
- The History of Costume Design by Braun & Scheider
- Date last modified:
- April 7, 2006
- Created by:
- Art Marmorstein
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Exercise
CONCENTRATION EXERCISE:
Project or have all students log on to the same costume image on the Braun and Scheider site. Ask each student to say something different about the costumes, telling them to concentrate on the picture, not on anything going on around them. (Remind them of Dr. Art's guaranteed, never fail preventative for stage fright: concentrate fully on what's happening on stage and ignore the audience completely.
IMAGINATION EXERCISE
Play as in the concentration exercise above, but this time asking students to speculate on what what kind of person might wear such clothing or what the clothing style says about the economy, practices, values, and beliefs, of the society that produced it
Project or have all students log on to the same costume image on the Braun and Scheider site. Ask each student to say something different about the costumes, telling them to concentrate on the picture, not on anything going on around them. (Remind them of Dr. Art's guaranteed, never fail preventative for stage fright: concentrate fully on what's happening on stage and ignore the audience completely.
IMAGINATION EXERCISE
Play as in the concentration exercise above, but this time asking students to speculate on what what kind of person might wear such clothing or what the clothing style says about the economy, practices, values, and beliefs, of the society that produced it