Tuesday, November 29, 2010

ENGLISH - 2nd trimester – Day 2

WARMUP:

1. Pick up a copy of “Syllabus - English 9 – Trimester A” –
1. Read it over
2. 2 signatures for homework
2. Discussed pink sheets and homework binder and blog
3. Watched several Cyber bullying and Power of Bystanders videos –
1. discuss Silent Observer program at RFC
4. Video playback problems…
1. On your own, past and future
5. Bring books to MAIN office for scanning.

Listed 3 things that we would never buy no matter what - then exchanged papers and wrote a commercial that persuaded the person to buy the very thing he said he would never buy. (our first persuasive writing piece)

Discussed contractions (and a challenged to name a contraction whose apostrophe stood in for 3 letters)

Homework:

Challenge: name a contraction whose apostrophe stands in for 3 letters

Signed Contact Information Sheet due Friday.

Remind parents to send me a brief email from their preferred email address with student name in the Subject line (if they haven’t already done so).

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PLAYWRITING  – Day 2.

List the differences between:

1. writing for the page (novels)
2. writing for the big screen (film)
3. writing for the stage (plays) 
1. discuss

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:

Finish I. and II. from above.