Their lack of ease with their bodies is matched by their lack of familiarity with spaces and places. Many are bused to school outside their immediate neighborhood. While the strangeness of the new building is short-lived, it is, initially, very real. Thus, space, both personal and environmental, presents a problem. This unit is designed for seventh-graders.
Literature forms the heart of the unit.
Theatre games and visual arts activities will be used to further explore and define space and structure. In order to accomplish this, I will work closely with the Theatre and Visual Arts teachers in my program. A valuable end-product of the unit will be a greater ease, on the part of my students, with their changing bodies. They will extend their body spaces into their immediate architectural surroundings. I hope there will be the beginnings of an aesthetic awareness.