Collect signed Contact sheet (from Classroom rules handout).
We each listed 6 things that would have improved the drawings from yesterday, even if they “broke the rules.” Discussed.
Followup on yesterday’s drawing assignment: how is it like writing?
Read “Background – I Have a Dream” (handout) and wrote down 3 words to be defined and wrote a paragraph summary – COLLECTED SUMMARIES.
Discussed allusions and wrote one of our own alluding to “The Most Dangerous Game.”
Watched video of famous speech.
ENGLISH Homework:
Reminder: If you haven’t already, return Contact Information Sheet, signed.
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PLAYWRITING – Day 2.
Assigned seats.
Checked homework: List of 10 dramatic actions, actions you’ve witnessed or experienced from real life - actions such as a fistfight, or a marriage proposal, or a business maneuver.
Choose 3 of your favorite dramatic actions from your homework and complete the following:
I. Develop your favorite 3 by answering the following questions about each:
1. Who performed the actions?
2. What did the actions tell you about the person who performed them?
3. Were the actions part of a larger context, a larger situation?
a. What did the actions tell you about that situation? About the world?
4. What ideas about people, life, and the world strike you when you contemplate the meanings of these actions?
II. Select one of the actions above. Write it down.
a. What earlier action could have precipitated/caused this action?
b. What reaction could follow it?
i. You’re not writing a play here, but you are identifying actions that have the potential for dramatic action linkage.
PLAYWRITING homework:
None.
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