Friday, November 30, 2012

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 5 

·         While I check homework: top half of “Handout 1 – The Prologue to Act One”

·         On a new piece of paper, paraphrase the first 3 lines of the Prologue…simplify the language to that it is easy to understand.

·         Together, we completed page 2 “Handout 1 - The Prologue to Act One” (taking notes on SONNETS)

·         Watched 8-minute video “Introduction to Shakespeare Tragedies” (re: Standard Deviants)

·         R&J Guinea Pig cartoon: http://www.musearts.com/cartoons/pigs/romeo.html

A contemporary sonnet 

Sonnet

by Billy Collins

All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now,

and after this one just a dozen

to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas,

then only ten more left like rows of beans.

How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan

and insist the iambic bongos must be played

and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines,

one for every station of the cross.

But hang on here while we make the turn

into the final six where all will be resolved,

where longing and heartache will find an end,

where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen,

take off those crazy medieval tights,

blow out the lights, and come at last to bed.

·         Begin homework:

·         On your own…

1.      Put each line of the Prologue into easy-to-understand language - do not simply define the challenging words.

§  Here’s a good way to paraphrase the first line: ‘Two families, who were equally rich and powerful.’

§  REMEMBER, a paraphrase is approximately the same length as the original.”

ENGLISH homework:  

Finish paraphrase of all 14 lines of the Prologue (use your definitions from last night to help)

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PLAYWRITING – Day 5

Make a list of what you have learned to be the key points to consider so far when writing a script for stage.

Read pages 289-293 – excerpts from The Complete Book of Scriptwriting

Watch videos: 

1. Simon Stone - What is Theatre Capable Of – TEDxSydney
2. 7th Annual Kids' Playwriting Festival - Highlights and Interviews with Winning Playwrights

PLAYWRITING homework:

Keeping in mind that an action must have 2 parts, and keeping a character in trouble, write a script about a character that includes 2 “actions”. Remember that we write not to be read but to be performed. 2 – 3 pages, handwritten.