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Monday, April 22, 2013

Monday, April 22, 2013

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 28 

Grade R&J Act 2 test/packet 

Finish talk show script from Friday…

1.      There are 6 questions on the handout that your characters must address.
a.       How was Mercutio killed
b.      Why Mercutio was killed….etc…(see handout)
c.        
2.      Length = 3 sides of 2 sheets of paper (do not skip lines).
3.      No physical violence in your scripts. Characters may argue, but no violence.
4.      TO BE COLLECTED AT THE END OF MONDAY’s CLASS (see handout for details) 

ENGLISH homework:

None

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PLAYWRITING – Day 28 

Discuss “The Sure Thing” by David Ives (1988) and our attempts to mimic its bell-ringing theatricality.  

Take out your “bell-ringing” scripts from Friday…continue working on them. 

Took notes on the meaning of theatricality and dramatization and what it looks like on stage:

4 Steps of Dramatization
  1. Situation – A young man is killed in a hold-up.
  2. Conflict – (real or imagined) – gets sued – young man kills brother - suspect gets away – no evidence – suspect threatens young man’s family – suspect kidnaps family member of young man – young man’s identity is stolen –
  3. Character’s journey – the killer decides to turn himself in –
  4. Add theatricality – The murder is remembered and re-enacted onstage from various witnesses. 

With each of our stories (last night’s homework), we identified the situation, conflict (real or imagined), journey, and theatricality 

PLAYWRITING homework: 

Continue working on your “bell-ringing” scripts from Friday.

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