Name: Josh Porter
How did this role play help to better understand the context
of Bleak House?
This role play allowed form many opportunities to expose the
context of Bleak house through quotes, action of scenes, and the use of
illustrations. The students could use the maps
and combine that knowledge with the scenes recreated to come into
contact with the Victorian Streets.
How involved were the members of your group during the
planning processes of this activity?
All of my group members were fully involved with the
creation of this role play and I could not have been more happy with their
performance.
Why do you think this activity was able to help the class
come to contact with the Victorians?
This activity was a good way for the class to notice what
the Victorians looked like and how they acted in the presence of other
Victorians.
What would you change about his role play experience and
why?
I would have allowed a team to actually win the game for a
sense of completion and split the group into smaller groups.
What did the role play experience alter about your previous
beliefs about the context of Bleak House?
This role play altered my thoughts about Victorian
prostitution as I thought it would have been more of a private manner rather
than an open park.
Overall were you happy with the way the role play worked
out? Explain?
I was happy with the role play and thoroughly enjoyed seeing
the class interact in a fun manner towards the context of the book.
Name: Dawn Kelly
How did this role play help to better understand the context
of Bleak House?
This role play helped to better understand
the context of Bleak House by fully
understanding the characters, the setting, and how those settings, in
particular the streets, affect the interactions among the characters. The
streets are important in many scenes in Bleak
House.
How involved were the members of your group during the
planning processes of this activity?
All group
members were involved in this process. Each member made important contributions
and took leadership of different components of the game.
Why do you think this activity was able to help the class
come to contact with the Victorians?
This activity was able to
help the class come into contact with the Victorians because it was interactive
and was constructed so that all members of the class had to be engaged and
participate. It was a fun, creative way to understand the Victorians like the
characters from Bleak House and allow
them to have better insight into what the streets of London were like.
What would you change about his role play experience and
why?
If I could make any changes I would incorporate the streets even
more into each category of the game so the class could know more about the
streets through each part of the game.
What did the role play experience alter about your previous
beliefs about the context of Bleak House?
The role play
altered my thoughts about how influential the streets were to the culture of
the Victorian Era. I could see more clearly how the streets were an impact on
the people of England.
Overall were you happy with the way the role play worked out?
Explain?
Yes, because
I think it was a creative way for the class to be involved and learn about our
topic. The variety of categories kept the game fun, interesting, and
informative.
Name: Michael Uhl
How did this role play help to better understand the context
of Bleak House?
This play helped me to feel more at home with the
characters. While having to improvise what the character would do or say in the
scene.
How involved were the members of your group during the
planning processes of this activity?
My group members were very active and cooperative in the
making to the board game. We all worked together very well and I feel that we
put a great new spin on the way one could think of “The Streets” in Victorian
England.
Why do you think this activity was able to help the class
come to contact with the Victorians?
We were able to do so by making them familiar with certain
locations. Also, putting funny situations that could have happened in Bleak
House into the game.
What would you change about his role play experience and
why?
I feel that we did everything relatively well. We could have
prepared a little bit better and made sure we were all on the same page.
What did the role play experience alter about your previous
beliefs about the context of Bleak House?
It made me feel that Bleak House had some things about the
street that could still be relevant toiday.
Overall were you happy with the way the role play worked
out? Explain?
I was more than happy with the role play. I feel we all
worked together quite well and we worked efficiently and had some fun while
doing it.
Name: Brittney Cato
How did this role play help to better understand the context of
Bleak House?
It allowed me to evaluate each character and really understand
their motives and personalities. By interpreting what certain characters would
do or say in situations not found in the actual text.
How involved were the members of your group during the planning
processes of this activity?
Every group member played a critical role in the planning the
presentation and group activity. We took turns bouncing ideas off of one
another until we came to our final project. Each person was enthusiastic and
contributed great ideas and information to the project.
Why do you think this activity was able to help the class come to
contact with the Victorians?
It asked the class to really consider and reflect on what they
knew about the characters, and from that asked them to use their knowledge in
role play and trivia.
What would you change about his role play experience and why?
I would have added more role play from our group to enhance the
class’s experience of really understanding the characters out of the context of
the novel. Also, I would have added more clues to our acting.
Overall were you happy with the way the role play worked out?
Explain?
Yes, I was very happy with the outcome of our presentation and
role play! Given our acting experience, I think our understanding of the text
pulled us through and really allowed the class and our group as well to further
enjoy and understand Bleak House.
