Composing Comes Alive: Dramatic Presentations in the Writing Classroom

Abstract

In creating and presenting a collaborative dramatic presentation of a literary text, composition students bring "The Yellow Wallpaper" to life through close reading, literary analysis and synthesis, recursive multi-modal writing, and group performance. This assignment fosters the development of transferrable reading, writing, and creative thinking skills within an active learning environment.

Keywords

• pedagogy
• reflective practice
• assignment-writing
• assignment
• ENGLISH-STUDIES
• DRAMA-WRITING
• LITERARY-ANALYSIS