Friday, January 11, 2013

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 25

Collect homework: 19 exchanges in modern language – Act 2.3

Took comma test.

What does “PMR” stand for?

PREVIEW/MARK/RESPOND

How do we PREVIEW?  How do we MARK?  How do we RESPOND?

Preview “Bitten by a vampire” article for 60 seconds. Discussed why.

Copy down this chart into your notebooks:

Sample Text Markings

(“What were you thinking?”) 

I love this part

*Unfamiliar words/phrases

! That’s interesting

J I agree

X I disagree

? I don’t understand

Read and MARK “Bitten by a vampire” article with the symbols above…they may be used more than once. 

ENGLISH homework: 

Write down 4 facts from the article “Bitten by a vampire” -  For each fact, write down why you think it might matter…either to you, or your family, or your community, or the U.S., or the world.

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 25 

·         Looked at content-less scenes and added theatricality to them…

o   in other words, where could these conversations take place that would put one of the characters in crisis?

o   What situation could we put these characters in that would make this “ordinary” conversation compelling?

·         Performed content-less scenes with our added “theatricality” to them…

·         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. 

http://www.pageout.net/user/www/m/j/mjknndy/sure%20thing%20david%20ives%20script%20101%20fall%202007.pdf

PLAYWRITING homework:                                                                                     

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