Tuesday, January 10, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 21

1. Number a paper 1 – 18. Take test on “The Interlopers”
1. Return in 2 piles on center table (test and answers)
2. Pick up copy of this week’s prefixes (on center table) – test on Friday
3. Progress reports
4. Number a paper 1 – 20 (3^rd hour only)
1. Reviewed a few possessive problems
5. Take NOTES on plural and possessive forms
6. Grade yesterday’s vocabulary tests
7. Began Reader’s Theatre (group reading performance) of “Lov’d Alone – The Tragic Story of Edgar Allan Poe” by Catherine Gourley

English homework:

Prefix/suffix test on Friday - Study the 5 entries in Latin/Greek vocabulary packet. Know the prefixes’ definitions and an example of how each is used to form a new word.

Bring Literature book.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 21

Performances: content-less scenes with added theatricality – for each line of dialogue, we wrote down what specifically motivates it

Defined acting as the ability to say one thing and do something else. As writers, we need to keep this in mind as we write dialogue.

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.

PLAYWRITING homework:

None.