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On a separate paper, rewrite the first 4
lines of the Prologue…dumb the language down so that a 2nd grader
would understand it.
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Checked homework: top half of
“Handout 1 – The Prologue to Act One”
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Together, we completed page 2 “Handout 1 - The
Prologue to Act One” (taking notes on SONNETS)
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Watched short videos: on Shakespeare and Romeo & Juliet
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Begin homework:
Put each line of the Prologue into easy-to-understand
language - do not simply define the challenging words.
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Here’s a good way to paraphrase the first
line: ‘Two families, who were equally rich and powerful.’
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REMEMBER, a paraphrase is approximately the same
length as the original.”
ENGLISH homework:
Finish paraphrase of opening Prologue (that you started for
warm-up today)
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PLAYWRITING – Day 6
- Copy down these notes from yesterday:
NOTES (by Kurt
Vonnegut):
- Every character
should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must
do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to
the end as possible.
- No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
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Using your 10 steps from the other day, develop this series of actions by answering
the following questions about each:
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PURPOSE:
Think about who performed the action and what it tell you about the person who
performed it?
1. Answer this question for all 10
actions.
2. Let’s say the actions were part of a
larger situation…
a. What do the actions tell you about that
character’s family?
b. Town?
c. Country?
PLAYWRITING homework:
None
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