Mallory Drover and Meaghan McCallum after performing on Wednesday.
By Carson Duggar
Students in Mr. Campbell’s AP senior language class got introduced to new tactic of learning. The class embarked on a new task of performing plays. This was a large change from writing essays and reading novels as they had been previously doing in the first semester.
Campbell broke his students into five groups and each chose from eight diverse plays to perform. Additionally, within their groups they discussed and read their plays to make sure they had full understanding.
They were expected to make cuts, making them shorter. Campbell emphasized that making cuts to a play is very challenging because they had to edit it, yet still keep the content and vital pieces of the story. Once each group properly condensed them, they rehearsed and developed props and costumes.
The next step was the performance. Many students had never participated in a play before. Although, after watching the plays this was not evident. The kids developed accents and odd traits to best portray each and every character.
Lauren Cashman claimed that performing helped her comprehend the piece, “It made you go beyond just the writer’s words and put you in the shoes of the characters. After performing I had a much deeper level of understanding of the play.”