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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 29 

  • Find your copy of “Bitten by a Vampire.”
  • On the back of it, make a chart and number it 1,2,3…
    • What are the facts?                   Why might it matter?
  • On your chart, choose and list 3 facts from the article.
  • Fill in the other side of your chart.
  • Choose one item from column B (Why might it matter)
    • Rewrite it starting with the word “Imagine…”
      • (and include your audience)
  • Your next sentences will begin with the words, "According to the article “Bitten by a Vampire” (The Week, Sept. 11, 2009)…(add your quote here)…
  • Finish your paragraph by explaining
    • what your audience should do about it or
    • what they might expect to happen in the future
Review R&J Act 3, scenes 1 and 2

ENGLISH homework: 

None

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PLAYWRITING – Day 29 

·         Looked at content-less scenes and added the 4 steps of dramatization to them (see yesterday’s notes)…
o   in other words, where could these conversations take place that would put one of the characters in crisis?
o   What situation could we put these characters in that would make this “ordinary” conversation compelling?
·         Performed content-less scenes with our added “theatricality” to them… 

PLAYWRITING homework: 

Continue working on your “bell-ringing” scripts from Friday – due tomorrow, must be 4 sides minimum.

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