Tuesday, January 17, 2012

PLAYWRITING – Day 24

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 25

• Collect homework: “cloze” reading (handout 1- 30) of annotated version of page 286 of “The Cask of Amontillado”
• Take plurals and possessives test
• Pick up this week’s vocabulary words (Lesson 3 – edifice, ambidextrous, etc.)
• Read “The Cask of Amontillado” (annotated version) by Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 286 – 292)
• Using a dry-erase board and the story “The Cask of Amontillado” (p. 286), create a DETAILED plotline (including exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) – photograph it with iPad
• TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW: Follow up on “eye” – Write the opening paragraph of a POE-LIKE story that introduces the disagreeable characteristic that you have tracked/counted these past 24 hours…
• REMINDER: Thursday: Open-notes test on Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 276 – 285) – including “Letter to John Allan” and “Alone”

ENGLISH homework:

TO BE COLLECTED: Follow up on “eye” – Write the opening paragraph of a POE-LIKE story that introduces the disagreeable characteristic that you have tracked/counted these past 24 hours…

FINISH: Read opening introductory pages on Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 276 – 285) – including “Letter to John Allan” and “Alone” and TOOK NOTES ON THESE PAGES for an open-notes test on Thursday

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 3 – edifice, ambidextrous, etc.)

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Monty Python video clip – “Argument Clinic” (for dialogue inspiration)

In the computer lab we began scripting our 5 minute scene (approx. 5 pages) considering situation, conflict (real or imagined), journey, and theatricality – 5 PAGES MINIMUM

PLAYWRITING homework:

5-minute script due Friday