Friday, December 3

ENGLISH - 2nd trimester – Day 5

Collected homework: completion of MLK packet.

With a partner, choose 10 of 13 statements below. For each statement, each of you will take a side, agreeing or disagreeing. On the same paper, each of you will write 3 sentences that describe a situation that defends your side. COLLECTED.

ENGLISH homework:

Bring your Elements of Literature book Monday.

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PLAYWRITING - 1^st trimester – Day 5

Looked again at the scene from Cyrano de Bergerac (pages 760 – 770) and listed any “actions” that we found.

Watched short video excerpt of Cyrano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptWu-PhqPIE

Read Backwards & Forwards about actions: What happens that makes something else happen? What is the “trigger” – what is the “heap” – instant by instant, moment by moment.

Drew a visual representation of our actions on dry erase boards:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14512809/action%20shots%2012.3.10.pdf

Read from The Art & Craft of Playwriting pages 11 – 12.

PLAYWRITING homework:

Keeping in mind that an action must have 2 parts and keeping a character in trouble, write a short script about a character that includes 2 “actions”. Remember that we write not to be read but to be performed.