After attendance, we’ll take both parts our test:
1. Vocabulary test (lesson 1)
a. Turn it into me…
2. “The Most Dangerous Game” test
a. Turn it in to me when you’re done…begin #3 immediately
3. After you’ve turned in both tests, imagine that the only things the cyborg understands about how real human beings are to behave is from what he learns from “The Most Dangerous Game”
· Write down 5 POSITIVE THINGS that he would learn about the behavior of humans if we inputted the story “The Most Dangerous Game” into his memory.
Grade vocabulary tests
Read the poem “Television” by Roald Dahl
How to Write – Day 1 - show Ted Williams video - Sentence structure mimicking – wrote like John Updike
Reminder: This week's video lecture: Watch and take notes on THE RULES of OUTLINING for Monday.
Homework:
Watch and take notes on THE RULES of OUTLINING for Monday.
See blog entry for THURSDAY, December 8 for links and details: http://mrvanbragtonline.blogspot.com/
Bring Literature book Monday
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PLAYWRITING – Day 10
1. Create a concrete goal for your protagonist.
a. A want. A need. A desire. Just one. Concrete, not abstract. Write it down.
2. “Character is 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.)
a. Write the action down.
i. Is the action connected to a concrete goal?
b. What does it show you about your character?
c. Does he get what he wants? Or does he run into an obstacle?
3. Next, bring both your protagonist and antagonist together into the same room (or space). Look back at the action you created for your protagonist. REWRITE the actions putting both characters in the same action.
a. Write what happens (in paragraph form).
b. Finally, define the conflict in one sentence.
4. Script your scene from above.
PLAYWRITING homework:
None.
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