Thursday, January 16, 2014

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 23

 

Collect homework: Questions1 - 4 for each of the 4 scenes you read yesterday

 

WARMUP: Number a paper 1 – 18

more comma practice (for Monday’s test) – re: “Coming Along with Commas”

 

Watched Act 2 “balcony scene” from Romeo & Juliet (1968 version) – approx. 33 minutes

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study for Monday’s comma test.

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 23

“War is bad” is a nugget/situation, but a good play and a bad play can have the same nugget of an idea. It’s not the quality of the idea that matters most, but rather the quality of the ideas as depicted by THE ACTIONS of the play. The Art & Craft of Playwriting (1996)

 

Took notes on the 4 steps of the dramatization of idea (pg. 67-68) including situation/nugget, conflict, journey, and theatricality.

 

Watch TED talk: “What is Theatre Capable of?”

 

Individually practiced writing through the 4 steps of dramatization (using today’s notes) – topic of your choice - discussed

 

Brainstormed on THEATRICALITY and how it could manifest itself on stage:

 

Theatricality

1. Stage freezes except for main character
2. Bow-tie laser
3. Animals talking
4. Animated inanimate objects (talking squares)
5. Portals
6. Time-travel
7. Talking conscience
8. Flying
9. Weather
10. See dreams
11. Fantastical creatures
12. Magic
13. Blending into background
14. Music
15. Waves/water

 

Watched a bit of a TED talk on War Horse (and puppetry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7u6N-cSWtY

 

 

 

 

 

PLAYWRITING homework:

 

None