Mirroring

Strategy Explanation: Mirroring requires students to copy the actions of a lead in a fluid and seamless manner, like they were the person's reflection. Mirroring is a fun and light activity to do with the students, even as a warm up drama activity. Within the strategy students will be in pairs, identified as the lead and and the mirror. The lead students will be acting out while the mirror students will be facing their partner and mirroring the movements of the lead. Mirroring can also be done in large groups where one person is the lead and a group follows.

Accommodating for younger students: The difficulty of this activity could be changed in many ways such as limiting them to stationary actions, from the waist up actions, or allowing locomotor movements. Mirroring encourages focus for the mirrors and creative thinking for the lead.

Activity: To turn mirroring into a game, you could have students in pairs during the activity and have observers who have to guess who is what role.