So first today, we did a couple of short warm-up games to get started and then went on to chanting two different children rhymes that sounded a lot more eerie and spooky than when we heard and sang it as children, this was mostly because now that we are older and more mature we understand the meaning of the rhymes and can annotate each line with great detail. The two rhymes that we chanted were 'My mother said' and 'Ring a ring a rosies' and we were instructed to find different stage directions and how to come on to the stage while singing it and to experiment with the volume and our voices to make the chants sound more scary. We each got a turn to experiment a different pitch to go with the chant. One of the examples were that we would start very quietly and gradually started to get louder until we are yelling the last line. This seemed to be very effective, however so did starting loudly and then getting quieter. There were a numerous amount of ways to make the chant sound more freaky than it already does.
After doing this we started discussing witchcraft and why people in America in the 1400s were so afraid of witches and how some people were so scared that they made up fake information to get someone who they thought was a witch executed. Thirdly we went on to reading a part of a script from a play called 'The Crucibles' which is about witches in Salem. We read who some of the characters were and why they were important to the play. For example one of the characters called Reverend Parris was the reverend of Salem but was despised by most people in the village. The reason we talked about this was because this was introducing us to the idea of witches and because the play that we were focusing on was generally about witches.
We were then told to make a short scene where there are four people; Abigail, Mary, Mercy and Betty and they were about to do the witchcraft ritual. So we had to think of our own chant and make up a scene to that.
All together I thought it was quite a challenging lesson because we had to create our own rhyme but it was quite enjoyable because it wasn't as hard as it seemed and we noticed that we started using words like 'Thou' and 'Thee' in our chant and this made the whole chant sound a whole lot more realistic. I would say that i contributed into ideas, especially with the chant and trying to get the others to think of words with 'Thou' and 'Thee' into our chant.
An amazing lesson as always!!! :)
Here are some pictures from our lesson today and one of the pictures shows the script we were reading and an other shows the chant we made up.
This is our chant:
Why art thou living, when thy should be dead
I call upon the Devil, to take you to your death bed
To do my sinful bidding, for her own goodbyes
We offer you her soul, in return for whats rightfully mine
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