Drama Presentations

Last week's drama presentations culminated a wonderful cross-curricular activity that spanned a few weeks. In Literacy class the students looked at identifying Facts and Opinions. They examined print and video advertisements to also identify several advertising techniques (i.e. exaggerated claims, giveaway promotions, catchy jingles etc.). This tied in nicely with Health class and the whole unit on Healthy Eating and reading food labels. We questioned as a class the use of certain gimmicks to lure targeted consumers to buy certain products (mainly food) and whether these so-called 'nutritious' products were actually living up to the claims that were made in the ads. For Drama, the students had to work in groups to create a product, a name for the product and a slogan and then use some of the advertising techniques that were discussed in class to try and promote the product to would be consumers. The result, of course, was AMAZING! Take a look!