Collect homework: handout (Old English script): “Becoming Familiar with the Language of Shakespeare.”
Returned all graded homework and made classroom folders.
Read a few student examples of Old English script.
Read No Fear Shakespeare version of same scene (Act 1.1).
Listened to CD Romeo & Juliet Act 1.1.1-235 (pages 808 – 817 in Literature book).
ENGLISH homework:
Returned signed permission slip.
PLAYWRITING – Day 11
Added notes – Aristotle continued (ideas/theme/“the nugget”/something of value a person takes home from an artistic experience.)
“War is bad” is a nugget, but a good play and a bad play can have the same nugget of an idea. It’s not the quality of the idea that matters most, but rather the quality of the ideas as depicted by THE ACTIONS of the play. The Art & Craft of Playwriting (1996)
Discussed the “show-don’t-tell” principle.
In table groups, we created 5 actions (10 parts) where we SHOWED that war is bad without ever mentioning the idea in words. Create the “chain reaction” - where an act performed by one character causes another character to perform yet another action…etc.
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More performances.
Collected homework from Friday (scripts only).
PLAYWRITING homework:
Returned signed permission slip.
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