ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 15
· Collect yesterday’s classwork…be sure to STAPLE your Queen Mab drawing to your questions 1-7 and 1-10 questions from the other day. TO BE COLLECTED
· Complete and return PINK survey (on center table).
· Next, using your book, list 6 different things that happened in Act 1.5.
A brief summary of Act 1.5 from:
http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/SceneTextIndex.html
Act 1, Scene 5: At Capulet's house, Romeo and his friends enter as preparations are being made for the dancing. The musicians are tuning up, and the servants are hurrying to clear away the remains of the feast. . . . Capulet enters, greets the masked strangers, and invites them to dance. Romeo sees Juliet and says to himself that this is the first time he's seen true beauty. Tybalt recognizes Romeo and sends for his sword, but Capulet orders Tybalt to do nothing. Saying that he'll make Romeo pay, Tybalt leaves. . . . Romeo holds Juliet's hand, and begs a kiss, which she gives him. They kiss again, and then both are called away. As everyone is leaving, they each learn the name of the other, and they each exclaim upon the fate that has made each fall in love with his/her enemy.
View QUEEN MAB drawings!
Grade yesterday’s tests
Watched scenes 4 and 5 on video
ENGLISH homework:
None
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PLAYWRITING – Day 15
· Complete and return PINK survey (on center table).
· Complete “List of Values” (GREEN) exercise… mark the values which most resonate with you, and then sort your list in order of priority…if you don’t know what a word means, skip it.
· Question: Answer each of the following about your current script idea:
- Why this moment? (in other words, why now and not later?)
- What’s going to make the audience care about the outcome of this scene?
- Name the non-violent conflict in your scene.
- List each character in your scene. Next to their names, list which of the following characteristics apply to each:
· Personality – interesting (not boring)
· Dynamic
· Unpredictable
· Imperfect/flawed
· Complicated (layered)
· Relatable
· Spontaneous
· Conflicted
· Before scripting your scene…
o Define the conflict in one sentence.
o What kind of crisis will begin your play?
o REMEMBER: Drama does not examine human beings 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.”
· Begin scripting your scene.
PLAYWRITING homework:
None
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