Roll-On-The-Wall

Today we explored the drama strategy Roll-On-The-Wall, which involves filling in a silhouette of certain characters from a chosen story to facilitate perspective taking for various characters. This strategy invites students to infer meaning about a character and to visually map the relationship between characteristics (emotions) and actions (behaviours) onto the silhouette of a character. This strategy can challenge students to consider multiple dimensions of the character. This activity illustrates many of the beginning stages of the creative process, including challenging the dominant perspective, imagining and generating more perspectives, and planning and exploring interpretations.

➜ Three dimensional Character Analysis