Spooky Radio Plays

 Since it's Spooky Month, students are working on Spooky Radio Plays. Last week I introduced students to the concept of listening to a theatrical production on the radio - some students were surprised by this concept and couldn't imagine having to just LISTEN to their entertainment instead of being able to WATCH it. I shared a short clip of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds as inspiration for this unit. Students are working either solo, in pairs, or small groups to write and perform their own radio plays. Most students are choosing to tell a scary story, but all stories are welcomed for this assignment. A large part of radio plays are the sound effects, so students will also become Foley artists and must provide their own sound effects to help the listeners visualize their story. Students who are working alone are able to voice all the characters themselves, or may employ family members or friends to help act. The radio plays I received last year (while students were all virtual) had a lot of parents and siblings (even cousins and grandmothers) perform and they reported back that it was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to hearing the recordings that students come up with this semester. Once the radio plays are completed, I'll ask students if they want to share their work with the class and I'll play some in the classroom and post some on their virtual art show. 

Happy Friday!

Orange and Purple classes got to share their hard work with their classmates today - we listened to radio plays! I am so impressed by all of the radio plays I have heard so far. Each story is unique and students demonstrated their creative sides through their voice acting skills and Foley. I have uploaded some of the radio plays to my virtual art show already - check them out! Next week Red and Blue classes will be finishing their radio plays, so I will add a few more performances to the slideshow next Friday.

With the time we had left, students played the Bob Ross inspired quick-draw game Happy Little Accidents, where they are given a word and a scribble, and must doodle the image in 60 seconds! Students always have a blast with this game, showing off their digital drawing skills and their innovative designs.

Spooky Radio Plays

 All four classes are on different stages of putting together their radio plays, but I have a few synopses to share from Orange and Purple classes. Students did not have to choose a spooky story, but horror seems to be the genre most students are leaning toward.  The plays are coming along so well, and I cannot wait to share them on my Virtual Art Show in a few weeks.

A waitress overhears a murder plot while working in her family's coffee shop. She has to find a way to solve the mystery and catch the killers without becoming their next victim. 

Our story is about a girl who gets kidnapped by a monster and they switched bodies. Everybody was very worried about her because she failed to show up at her friends house for a sleepover and thats when people start worrying about her.

A alien wants to make his dad proud and starts abcucting humans. The humans try to find how to escape.

There is a earthqauke in the city and starts making cracks in the ground. A monster comes out and trys to destroy everything in its path. but then....

Where there is magic there is food. A mystery to find the vansihing snacks in the magic knights hideout. to find the snack charmy to be a detective, an interogator, and a food finatic.

Francis' mom leaves for vacation and she thinks she'll have a fun and normal time with the house to herself. But then she starts hearing footsteps, voices, and creaking stairs. She then starts seeing things and falls down the stairs, but did any of this really happen?

Two boys, Tom and Jamal go exploring. They go into the woods and get lost, and get slowly hunted by Big Bohomb're, the big bad evil guy.  They have to escape the forest and Big Bohomb're.

Two kids try getting on a balloon early and they take of.  There is a thunderstorm in the distance and they don't know how to get down, then in an act of desperation the crash.

The radio play is about a boy who keeps lying for his entertainment until it come back to be a mistake.

Lila and her sister Kia went to a camp where there is ghost that make Lila can't sleep and doesnt lose enery and how one of her friend that can see a ghost and was hounted by it.

Red and Blue classes are in the beginning stages of putting together their radio plays, so I will share some of their synopses next week. I can't wait to hear the finished products!