Monday, November 26, 2012

ENGLISH – 2^nd trimester – Day 1 

·         Read the Holstee manifesto: “This is your life…” To see a copy of the manifesto, click here: http://shop.holstee.com/pages/about

• Without looking, what do you remember from it?
• Every day will start with information on the monitors. Read it.
• Wrote a paragraph (5 sentences minimum) about a single line of the manifesto that related directly to our own life. COLLECTED

·         Get handout and paper:

• Introduction to classroom and teacher...including rules and expectations.
• Classroom blog
• Homework policy
• Tardies
• Tables and chairs
• Test

·      Described and drew what we heard and saw (on overhead) and compared that to writing and reading 

ENGLISH homework:  

·         Return Contact Information Sheet, signed.

·         Write out 4 definitions from letter

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PLAYWRITING  – Day 1 

·         Drew a blueprint of classroom – passed drawings around tables and added details. 

·         Made a list of all the plays we have seen and all the movies we have seen.

• Discussed one of the key differences between playwriting and screenwriting…the stage itself. Plays occur on stages, movies can happen anywhere and with many scene changes, sometimes many within a single minute.
• Chose a play and listed all the scene changes we could remember.

·         Discussed the correlation between our “blueprints” and playwriting. 

·         Discussed ACTors vs. TALKers…we will learn to write actions (not great speeches) 

·         Discussed how a line of dominoes is like the actions of a play. When one gets knocked down, the next one falls because of it, etc. 

·         Numbered a paper 10 – 1 ( with 1 representing the beginning of a scene and 10 representing the end). After being told that 10 was a character burning a steak, we worked backwards figuring out WHY each moment occurred: 

 

  

PLAYWRITNG homework:

Make a list of 10 dramatic actions - actions you’ve witnessed or experienced from real life - actions such as a fistfight, or a marriage proposal, or a brother running away from home, an arrest, a car accident, a state championship, an incredible loss, an incredible win.