Wednesday, November 28, 2012

ENGLISH - 2nd trimester – Day 3

·         Find your classwork from yesterday and continue to DISAGREE with the last statement written.

o   Read what has been written so far.

o   Disagree with it by adding 2 additional sentences that begin with,

§  “But isn’t it also true that…”

·       Discussed the relative size of our individual and our collective worlds (according to geography (North/South/East/West) 

·       Discussed the tendency to NOT broaden our horizons…even in a safe place like the school cafeteria. Why would we choose the disadvantages over the advantages? We are going to start forming habits. Is avoiding people who are different/unknown to us going to be one of these life-long habits?

·         Introduced to Shakespeare’s use of unusual word order and its poetic advantage – re: “I ate the sandwich” 

·         Also likened this word order to the poetry of popular song lyrics and to Yoda from Star Wars

·         In Yoda-like fashion, reassemble one of today’s warm-up sentences to sound Shakespearean.

·        Began “Case Study” work (to finish AND COLLECT FOR GRADE). After reading one of the case studies…

1. Write down 3 reasonable solutions.
1. For each of your 3 solutions, write the 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages.
2. Decide which solution is best.
1. In 8 sentences, tell what is likely to happen after your solution is carried out. In other words, what is the ending to your story. It must be believable.

ENGLISH homework:  

None J

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PLAYWRITING  – Day 3

·         Choose another 1 of your 3 favorite dramatic actions from yesterday and complete the following:

o   Number a paper 10 – 1 (with 1 representing the beginning of a scene and 10 representing the end). Work backwards figuring out WHY each moment occurred. 

·         NEXT, develop this series of actions by answering the following questions about each:

1.      Who performed the actions?

2.      What does each action tell you about the person who performed it?

a.       Answer this question for all 5 actions.

·         Wrote a 10-line script about our day so far 

·         NOTES (by Kurt Vonnegut):

1. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
2. Every sentence must do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action.
3. Start as close to the end as possible.
4. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

·         Considering the notes above, revise or rewrite your script.

 

PLAYWRITING homework:

 

None.