It is a new trimester at Fujimura, which
means the third-year high school students get to take elective courses. This
surprised me because in America elective courses are open to all high school
students, not just seniors. One of the Japanese teachers of English I work with
asked me if I would like to help teach the theater class and I was very
excited! In the United States I taught a theater for ESL course, so it was
something I am very familiar with. We planned a lesson where our two students
would memorize and perform a scene from The
Wizard of Oz.
We met for four hour long classes and
worked on emotions, movement, memorization, and performing. The students were
amazing! I have taught many different students theater, but the Fujimura girls
really are talented. The scarecrow was full of emotion and Dorothy full of
confidence. We performed the scene for some junior high students as well as
sang a song for them. I loved teaching theater again and it was so nice. I hope
I can teach more theater classes in the future!
