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Friday, January 18, 2013

Friday, January 18, 2013

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 30
 
(TO BE COLLECTED when finished):

  1. Similar to yesterday’s journal, use your textbook to create 15 “dominoes” that show the events that we read about in Romeo & Juliet Act 3, Scene 1 (pgs. 872-883).
  2. Next, choose one “domino” from your sequence and change it.
  3. Then, write a new 3-domino sequence that shows how this change alters the outcome.
  4. Turn in for a GRADE.
Having read Act III, Scene 1, in a group of 3, we will write a script for a talk show (the rest of the hour)

  1. Read handout carefully (as a class)
  2. There are 5 questions on the handout that your characters must address.
    1. How was Mercutio killed
    2. Why Mercutio was killed….etc…(see handout)
    3.  
  3. Length = 3 sides of 2 sheets of paper (do not skip lines).
  4. No physical violence in your scripts. Characters may argue, but no violence.
  5. TO BE COLLECTED AT THE END OF MONDAY’s CLASS (see handout for details)
ENGLISH homework: 

None.
 
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PLAYWRITING – Day 30

In the computer lab we began scripting our 5 minute scene (approx. 5 pages) and looked for ways to put our characters in extremes. Under pressure. In trouble. Within conflict.

5 PAGES MINIMUM – due next Wednesday

PLAYWRITING homework:

None

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