Share one creative lesson plan that you have used successfully with the students

To be honest, I don't think I've done a particularly creative lesson.

This is because the tasks are very specific, for example, 'write a diary entry from the viewpoint of Shrek highlighting his views on Love and Friendship'... and we are working on a tight deadline because the storyboarding task at the start of the year met with loads of difficulties, pushing back all the tasks.

One of the lessons I find the kids enjoying quite a bit was my lesson on tableaux. The objective was for them to familiarize themselves with tableaux so that they can use it as a medium to complete their SA task on creating an alternative ending to Shrek, the movie.

The students were grouped based on their SA Task group. They are first taught explicitly on what a tableau is, what features we can expect in a tableau, the use of props, costumes, facial expressions, etc. They are then asked to give captions and point out the features we have just talked about in a series of shots that I presented to them. Took this from a video, so after the shots, i showed them the video to let them know if they were accurate in their captions. They mostly were.

Then I provided them each with a scene from Shrek, and they are tasked to do the following:
- pick out the key information they would like to highlight about the scene and show it through 4 shots.
- discuss how they would enact the shots

They then present to the class. Each group is given a particular scene, and the rest of the class has to guess which scene is being acted out, and why they believe the scene is, well, the scene they guessed. Then the students on the floor will then be able to provide feedback for how they can improve, etc.

The students had a lot of fun with this because they enjoy the acting as well as the guessing. The students are generally good students, so they took well to the feedback and there were improvements to subsequent groups' presentation.