LGA 3104 PLAYS AND DRAMA FOR YOUNG LEARNERS REFLECTION by: MOHAMAD AZMAN KAMARUDIN First and

foremost, I would like to thank god for giving me the opportunity to complete all the tasks contain inside LGA 3104 question assignment. Allow me to show my greatest appreciation to my respected lecturer, Miss Kee Li Li. The presence of Miss Kee, in guiding me throughout the tasks had contributed a lot in helping me completing my assignment. Her hard work in delivering lots of useful knowledge to my friends and me in the class for this semester would never be in vain. I could say that Miss Kee had put so much effort especially when it comes to her lecture hour. I really love when it comes to Miss Kee lecture. I find that she has her own way in delivering knowledge because the way she demonstrates things to my friends and I is not the same as other lecturers. Whenever Miss Kee was giving her lecture, I will always have a pen and a paper on my table just to jot down important key words that she suggested during her lecture. This is mainly because I feel so interested and eager to listen to her lecture. Besides that, we will also have some sort of discussion on our assignments and tasks. Miss Kee did her part in explaining things that we do not understand and commenting on our drafts of our assignments. I really appreciate all the positive and negative comments that she gave. I take all the comments as the opportunity for me to learn to be more effective in teaching my pupils in future. Getting back on my reflection, before we perform our play we had to undergo a few preliminary process. Such as, the process of selecting, process of adapting and last but not least process of performing. It is essential and vital for us to be fully prepared before performing our play. All the important aspects need to be considered before we could perform the play. This is to prevent any unwanted incidents to happen and befall on us. In the midst of selecting the script to be used for our group play, we had a minor setback. There are so many good script to choose from, each and every one of our group members script have their own strong qualities. It took us quite a while to pick the most suitable and appropriate script to be used for our group play. In the end we had agreed upon, using Norafidah Bt. Jasman script, entitled Hasnul and Ghusni for our play. The script is the most important aspect of the project. The script is the blueprint or template of the play. Like a blueprint for a physical construction, such as a house or multiple level building, if its faulty the building will fail. It is impossible to envision a play without a script, as the script is the base for what appears onstage.

We had chosen Hasnul and Ghusni script to be our group act mainly because, it contain most of the important aspects that are required and listed for, what a good script should have. It is a very wise decision for me because we really need to consider all the aspects before performing. It will make our planning and preparation of the play much easier. There are no doubt, even though Hasnul and Ghusni is a good script, it still require a few alteration. This minor changes is too suit our group so that all the members in the group will have a part to play in it. The lack of dialogues for the backup actors is one of the changes we had made. Now, we had entered the adapting process. During this stage, we need to check again the flow of the play according to the script. There might be some scene that we need to adapt and change so that actors will be more comfortable in performing. Since the original story is taken from an old folktale called Hansel and Gretel that is originated from America, our targeted audience might not be aware of the culture contain inside the original story, that is why we need to adapt it into our own Malaysian culture so that they will feel more relatable towards the story and will develop understandings towards the play. We also had included some minor physical movement with songs that audience can follow along during the play. We included participation of the audience in our play to make it more interesting. During our group performance on the stage, we had the time of our life, and the audience seems to love it. We had tried to include the audience as much as possible during our group play to make it more interactive and interesting and also to gain their attention. The play went smoothly but there are still some problems we had encountered while performing, mainly because of our own mistakes and slight problems with the P.A system. We should have check it thoroughly before performing. Nevertheless, we manage to complete the play magnificently At the end of the day, I had gained so many inputs while completing this assignment. I had learned many useful acting skills and how to plan and prepare a play and also performing it on stage. Working in a big group had taught me to be more cooperative and to contribute all my efforts and give full commitment when working as a group, to achieve great results and outcome. I learned how to be more patience and selfless, put the group needs before me in order to complete the objective of the assignment. All of this experience will benefit me in the near future and I surely will cherish all the moments we shared together in completing this assignment.

Even though my script, The First Well had not been picked by our group as the script to be used for our group play, I still feel glad that it had been review by the others. In the future if I want to perform it on stage I had the proper knowledge that I had gain from my experience in completing this assignment. A few adaptation still need to be made in order to make it a successful performance. All in all, I take all the comments positively and take it as the chance for me to improve myself if I were to teach primary school pupils in future. Personally, I must say that I should be thankful to those who give their full cooperation and commitment when our group was doing the play. I do gained lots of new and useful knowledge in learning this subject. As a future teacher, I hope that I will be able to produce pupils who are knowledgeable and competent, who possess high moral standards and who are responsible and capable of achieving high level of personal well-being as well as being able to contribute to the harmony and betterment of the family, the society and the nation at large learning. In other words, the content of knowledge is not an end in itself but a means to an end.