Thursday, January 17, 2013

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 29 

Collected homework: Act 2 open-book, take-home test packet 

1. Punctuated “Dear John” letter – checked meaning of newly punctuated letter and revised to make certain the letter was in fact a “Dear John” letter and not complementary by error! (Ah, the importance of commas!)
2. Wrote about a time when we (or someone we knew) were so angry that we acted without thinking.
3. Next we created a 15-piece sequence of events (like dominoes) that were believable, if not true, that included the anger from above. 
4. Finally, we chose one piece of the sequence and changed it and wrote a new 3-domino sequence that showed how this change altered the outcome.

Read Romeo and Juliet Act III, Scene 1 (pgs. 872-883). 

Watched spoof of Romeo & Juliet and Monty Python video clip of Black Knight 

ENGLISH homework:

 

None.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 29

·         Reviewed yesterday’s notes:

NOTES: (excerpts from The Art & Craft of Playwriting – (J. Hatcher)

·         Drama does not examine human beings in repose, at leisure. Drama examines human beings in extremes. Under pressure. In trouble. Within conflict.

·         If you want to find out what a person is made of, put that person under pressure.

·         Good playwrights remember: “Always keep your hero in trouble.”

·         Read 2 Christopher Durang shorts (as inspiration for our own scripting activity): “Funeral Parlor” and “DMV Tyrant”

·         Returned to our scripts and looked for ways to put our characters in extremes. Under pressure. In trouble. Within conflict.

o   Wrote dialogue for ½ hour. 

PLAYWRITING homework: 

None