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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 33 

P/T conferences: 3:30 – 5:30 PM 

1.      PMR (collected for a grade): Preview, Mark, Respond…Quietly read the New York Times review of Romeo & Juliet (performed in 2011) titled, “Crazy Love – Raising the bar on Shakespearean tragedy” 

2.      RESPOND on a separate paper (also to be collected), write down 2 specific things that are said in the review…then tell why each one might matter (in the future). 

3.      Watched 2 trailers (and the balcony scene) for the same Royal Shakespeare Company's Romeo & Juliet noting the fire metaphor and the mix of contemporary and Elizabethan costume 

4.      LAZY SONNET:
a.       Using your book, look at Act 3:1 (pgs. 873-882)
                                                  i.      Identify the 14 most important lines (do not write them out)
                                                ii.      Then choose 1 word from each line and write them out in order on the front page, right-hand margin of your Act 3 take-home test
1.      14 words total 

5.      Began completion of Act 3 packet questions 1 – 20 for scenes 1, 2, and 3 

ENGLISH homework: 

Complete questions 1 – 20 in Act 3 take-home test packet

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PLAYWRITING – Day 33 

TODAY’S MANTRA: “Subtext: what we imagine characters are thinking while they say something else”

Read pgs. 138-144 on SUBTEXT from The Art & Craft of Playwriting 

·         Discuss the subtext of lines…
o   Subtext: what we imagine characters are thinking while they say something else.

·         TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW: Write out the SUBTEXT for each line of your script.

In computer lab 140 we continued 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 Wednesday after class or Thursday in class 

PLAYWRITING homework: 

Subtext due tomorrow. 

Continue working on scripts.

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