Drama in the Classroom

I really enjoyed the kinesthetic learners that Bruce Pirie discusses through the use of drama in the literary classroom.  Nothing really bothered me more than fellow students who were simply book smart, got straight A's, but didn't know how to catch a bus to school without their parents.  I also feel that classrooms can be the same way. While a specific way to analyze or learn an equation is shoved down students throats, students don't always understand why they should do this or feel that they are receiving useful knowledge.  Pirie explains the functions of using drama in class.  He writes, "A third general function stems from the fact that dramatic work unfolds in time: it is about living through experience" (52).  I agree with Pirie, a student is not going to learn or fully understand what they are learning unless they are living through it.  So for the student who is forced to perform an equation a specific way is not necessarily going to think it is useful if they cannot live through it or use it in real life to solve something.  There were many other great factors throughout this chapter of Pirie, but I definitely felt this was the most important!