Monday, December 12, 2011

1^st trimester – Day 11

WARMUP:

1. Watch Capitalization video in class, then, using your book (and your notes), create a detailed outline about “The Most Dangerous Game” – work with a partner at your table???
2. Follow up on “John Updike” sentences – showed student examples then inferred what the author was saying - literal vs. suggested
1. Create another “Updike” sentence...inferred what the author meant to say
3. Wrote down a series of prefixes and thought of words that used them:

1. a-, ab-, abs-

2. a-, an-

3. acr-, acro-  

4.  alt-, alti-  

5.  ambi-  

6.  ant-, anti-

4. Continued with capitalization work – reviewed answers - announced capitalization test date – Wednesday

Homework:

None.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 11

Read a sampling of student scripts

Finish your script from Friday

Show Will Ferrell spoof of A Chorus Line (lyrics by Edward Kleban, music by Marvin Hamlisch) in Land of the Lost.

Show excerpts from Gypsy (music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim), Guys and Dolls (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser), A Chorus Line (lyrics by Edward Kleban, music by Marvin Hamlisch.)

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.

Write what happens (in paragraph form).

Finally, define the conflict in one sentence.

Script your scene from above.

PLAYWRITING homework:

None.