THE KEY TO TODAY’S CLASS: To whom might it matter and why.
Check
homework: 4 facts, 4 why it matters
Write a paragraph about the article “Bitten by a vampire” (without
the rubric)
Show rubric – grade your paragraph
Writing assignment explanation – rubric – goal
After you read a non-fiction article (for any class)…
- choose an interesting
point (or fact) made in the article
- figure out what specific
group of people might care about that interesting point
- explain why that point might matter to that group of people in the future
With a partner, write an improved draft using the rubric and…focusing on:
- Why might this
matter and TO WHOM SPECIFICALLY (audience)
- Add a specific point (from the article) for your specific audience and tell why they might care
- Underline the
sentence that proves who your audience is.
- Circle the sentence that tells what this audience should be concerned about.
Read: Romeo and Juliet: Act 2.5-6 (pgs. 864 – 869)
ENGLISH homework:
Read: Romeo and Juliet: Act 2.5-6 (pgs. 864 – 869)
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PLAYWRITING – Day 26
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Using the script “The Sure Thing” by David Ives
(1988) on the center table…write down the answers to the following:
o
1. For
each time the bells rings, how many lines backwards do the characters have
to go to start the moment over…
o
2. Count up how many times the bell rings
§
after Bill speaks
§
after Betty speaks
·
Deconstructed David Ives use of the bell
(theatricality)
o
Noted what he did, specifically, each time the
bell rang
o
Noted what made the bell ring and what the
author technically did each time the bell rang…how many lines backwards, as
well as where he chose to start over and what and when he not only backed up
but deleted some conversation as well.
·
Choose a setting and a “want” for 2 characters
and mimic the theatricality of “The
Sure Thing” by Davis Ives (1988)…
o
And wrote a script for 45 minutes in class
whereby the characters back up and try again…always pursuing the same “want”
PLAYWRITING homework:
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