Do you think children enjoy poetry and drama? Why? Yes.

Why? Poetry & drama conveys emotions happy, sad, anger, etc Easy to understand related to our daily life interesting activity can be carried out through the poem reading aloud activity & role play both gives confidence for children present in classroom poetry gives new ideas - open up your mind to new ideas Poetry & drama doesnt take long to read very short & simple It is fun! appreciative audience - Whether that audience are friends in the playground, teachers in the class room or parents in an audience they can express themselves fully can find solution for their problem

Do you think children enjoy poetry and drama? Why? Based on my personal view, I believe that children enjoy poetry and drama. This is because, poetry and drama is fun to learn. It involves so much of students participation. When it is fun to learn, student might love to perform and they would contribute so much to make it successful. Besides, students also enjoy poetry and drama because it conveys emotions. Through drama and poetry we can convey our feelings such as happy, sad, angry and etc. In this way, students can express themselves. Additionally, students enjoy poetry and drama because it is easy to understand as it is related to students daily life. For an example, the Malaysian traditional story Si Tanggang explains the impacts of our deed in our life where students can relate it to their daily life lesson. Following this, students also enjoy poetry and drama as various activities can be conducted or carried out through the poem and drama. For an example, reading aloud activity can be conducted for poetry and role play session can be carried out for drama. Reading aloud and role play activities always have a special place among children as it boosts their confidence level. Through these activities, students can build up their confidence level where they present themselves in classroom without any shy feelings. Apart from this, children also enjoy poetry and drama because it does not take a long time to read. Mostly, childrens poem and dramas are written in short and simple sentences which make the students to understand it more clearly. Poetry and drama also poetry gives new ideas. Poetry and drama helps children to open up their mind to new ideas where they can use it in their essay writing. In addition to this, children also love poetry and drama because of the appreciative audience. Whether that audience is friends in the playground, teachers in the class room or parents in an audience, students love it when they positive comments from the audience when they present themselves through the poetry and drama. Children always love to be the center of attention, so when they perform the

poem and drama on the stage, they expect to receive positive comments from their audience. In a nutshell, children enjoy poetry and drama because it is fun to learn and they can express themselves through poetry and drama.

Dramatic poetry involves a narrative poem of a person in a specific situation. In your own words, explain how to turn a poem into a play. 1. Carefully interpret the poem for tone and setting. 2. Determine a basic profile of the protagonist based on a series of character indicators in the poem. 3. Develop a comprehensive story line based on the setting and characters. 4. Modify the storyline to fit the format of a theatre script.

Dramatic poetry involves a narrative poem of a person in a specific situation. In your own words, explain how to turn a poem into a play. A poem can turn into a play by carefully interpret the poem for tone and setting. Children can try to gather information about physical location and weather of the poem. The emotion, or tone, will lend clues about the resolution of the script. For example, poems expressing sorrow over lost love are most easily translatable to tragic scripts. Next, children have to determine a basic profile of the protagonist based on a series of character indicators in the poem. They should list any major social conflicts, such as the personal pain of a lost love or the stress of political unrest. For example, children evaluate the changes that have occurred in the character or world of the protagonist because of this conflict. Other than that, children should develop a comprehensive story line based on the setting and characters. The length of the script can be adjusted according to the nature of the poem or artistic preference. Children must ensure that the final story has a distinct beginning, middle and end to allow conflict development and resolution Moreover, children can modify the storyline to fit the format of a theatre script. Children should develop dialogue and monologues that support the unfolding of the introduction, conflict and resolution. This also includes the detailed descriptions of the physical appearances of characters and scenery that will allow the play to be performed in a way that is accurate to artistic vision.