Friday, January 7

ENGLISH - 2nd trimester – Day 19

Discussed the arrangements that Romeo and Juliet made before Romeo left? (pgs. 851-852)

Listened to Act 2, Scene 2 (pgs. 845 – 853)

Completed first page of new comma handout “Comma Notes” where we created 5 sentences using the 5 rules (see handout for details)

Complete the three stages of the following Balcony scene activity:

·         STAGE 1: Using Act 2.2 (pp. 845-853), choose the 3 most important lines from every 20 lines of the scene. In other words, from lines 1-20, choose the 3 most important. From lines 21-40, choose 3 more. Continue this all the way through the scene until p. 853. You should end up with 27 lines total.

·         STAGE 2: Next, using the 27 lines you chose, reduce them to 27 key words. Choose 1 word from each of your previously chosen 27 lines. These words may repeat themselves and may not make perfect sense, but should include the 27 most important themes of each line.

·         Stage 3: You are to reconstruct the famous scene using the 27 lines from Stage 1; this time, you are re-writing these lines in Modern English - keeping the same meaning as each original Shakespearean line. You may simplify the line, but you must keep the same meaning.

o   Turn in all 3 stages.

ENGLISH homework:

Finish “3 stages” for Monday (see details above)

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PLAYWRITING – Day 19

Read (abridged version) “The Sure Thing” by Davis Ives (1988) – from a collection called All in the Timing – then discussed it and identified the “theatricality” that Ives added.

Discussed an excerpt from Roland Barthes essay “Baudelaire’s Theater” where he writes that theatricality is “theater-minus-text, it is a density of signs and sensations built up on stage starting from the written argument” (1972:26) and how it introduces the notion, promoted by the European avant-garde since the beginning of the twentieth century, that the “essence” of theatre was to be found not in the written text but in the nontextual elements of production. (re: Glen McGillivray – “The Discursive Formation of Theatricality as a Critical Concept”)

With a partner and choosing ONE of our headlines from our index cards, we outlined (and if time, began scripting) a scene considering Aristotle’s 6 elements - situation, conflict (real or imagined), journey, and theatricality

PLAYWRITING homework:

None.