Introduction to Humanity in the Arts: Drama

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Introduction to Humanity in the Arts Drama
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There are several purposes for experiencing
Drama.
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1. Sharing the human experience
2. Passing on tradition and
culture 3. Recreational 4. Artistic
expression
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Humanitythe condition or quality of being
human
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So, humanity in drama is how we USE drama to
share our human experiences.
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Humans have been using drama to share
experiences for hundreds of year. You may not
realize that drama includes storytelling, myths,
legends and folk tales.
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Core Content for Humanity in the Arts Drama

• AH-05-2.3.1 Students will identify how drama has
  been a part of cultures and time periods
  throughout history.

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Core Content for Humanity in the Arts Drama

• AH-EP-3.3.1 Students will experience dramatic
  works created for a variety of purposes. Sharing
  the human experience, passing on tradition and
  culture, recreational, artistic expression.

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• What is a culture? What does that word mean?

Culture is a way of life, unique to a given group
of people.
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• Remember, there are many different ways cultures
  can share an experience using drama.

Storytelling
Myths
Legends
Folktales
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• People can also pass on their tradition and
  culture using drama in these ways.

Storytelling
Myths
Legends
Folktales
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• People can use these for recreational purposes
  and for artistic expression.

Storytelling
Myths
Legends
Folktales
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Examples of three cultures

• Native American

Traditional Appalachian
West African
The use of storytelling, myths, legends,
folktales in these cultures.
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Learning About Traditional Appalachia
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History of the Appalachian People

• When settlers from Europe came to the
  Appalachian mountains, they brought with them
  their own cultures.

The stories they knew were changed to fit their
new world.
Because of their isolation, many of the stories
and songs stayed similar to their European
homelands.
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History of the Appalachian People

• One of the story characters they brought with
  them was Jack from stories like Jack and the
  Beanstalk.

They changed Jack so that he became more of an
American character.
But you will notice that some of the stories
about Jack the Jack Tales are similar to
fairy tales you have heard.
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History of the Appalachian People

• Storytellers from Appalachia are still
  telling Jack Tales.

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Remember the Purposes of Drama?

• Storytellers from Appalachia are still
  telling Jack Tales.
• They use them to
• 1. Share a human experience
• 2. Pass on their tradition and culture
• 3. For recreational purposes
• 4. For artistic expression

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The Appalachian Region

• The Appalachian mountains are found in the
  eastern United States and extend from Georgia to
  Maine.

The name Appalachia comes from the Appalachee
tribe of Northern Florida. It means endless
mountain range.
The geographical region known as Appalachia is
named after the mountain chain which serves as a
barrier from the outside world.
The isolation that the mountains bring has
preserved the culture and many traditions.
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Map of Appalachian Mountains
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Characteristics of the Appalachian People

• The inhabitants of this area are traditionally
  very independent.

Many have survived in the mountains for
generations by subsistence farming.
Family is very important to the Appalachian
people.
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Jack Tales

• Jack tales are stories that have been told in
  Appalachia for hundreds of years.

Jack tales have an oral tradition. That means
that people tell the stories rather than write
them down.
This is called storytelling and is an example of
a way people pass on their tradition and culture.
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• I have a Jack Tale I want to share with you.
• Remember what we have learned about how cultures
  use myths, legends, folk tales and storytelling
  to share a human experience, pass on their
  traditions and culture, for recreational purposes
  and for artistic expression.

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Jack and the Giants
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• Next time, you will complete an Exit Slip to
  review what you have learned.
• Then we are going to spend some time talking a
  little more about storytelling, reading some
  books and watching folk tale movies in the next
  couple of weeks to learn all about Appalachia and
  their culture.

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• Storytelling and folk tales change and develop
  over the years. The folk tales told in Appalachia
  now are a little different from they way they
  were first told, years ago.
• Heres an example.

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Bibliography

• Video clips from unitedstreaming
• Map from http//graphicmaps.com/webimage/countrys
  /nalnd.htm
• Appalachian facts from http//www.ferrum.edu/appl
  it/studyg/West/htm/wvcultur.htm