Tuesday, December 7

ENGLISH - 2nd trimester – Day 7

Journal: Write a few sentences about how you are feeling today and why. Then in Yoda-like fashion, reassemble each of your sentences to sound Shakespearean.

Read yesterday's exit slips (Shakespearean summaries of English class).

Completed and collected “Case Study” work: After reading one of the case studies…

1. Write down 3 reasonable solutions.

2. For each of your 3 solutions, write the advantages and disadvantages.

3. Decide which solution is best and tell why it is the best one.

4. Tell what is likely to happen after your solution is carried out.

Read from Literature book pgs. 796 – 803.

Reminded class about website addresss: http://mrvanbragtonline.blogspot.com/

Create a 10 question test (and answer key) that includes 4 multiple choice, 3 fill-in-blank, and 3 short answer using information from pgs. 796 – 803.

ENGLISH homework:

Finish reading pgs. 796 – 803 and creating a 10 question test (and answer key) that includes 4 multiple choice, 3 fill-in-blank, and 3 short answer

Study pages 796 – 802 for Thursday test.

Bring your Literature book to class every day.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 7

Check homework: 1-2 page biographical sketch

1.      Create a concrete goal for your character. A want. A need. A desire. Just one. Concrete, not abstract. Write it down.

2.      “Character in action; action is character.” Create an action that tells us what kind of person your character is. (Example: A young boy steals a purse from an old lady.) Write the action down. Is the action connected to a concrete goal? What does it show you about your character? Does he get what he wants? Or does he run into an obstacle?

Performances – In the same acting groups as before, and using one of the scripts from the other day, and keeping in mind that an action must have 2 parts and keeping a character in trouble, perform the script. Remember that we write not to be read but to be performed.

PLAYWRITING homework:

None.