Tuesday, January 21, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 26

 

·         Have students take out yesterday’s classwork:

• REMIND THEM: “YESTEDAY, you wrote about a time when you (or someone you knew) were so angry that you acted without thinking. – 2 paragraphs”

·         TODAY, we’re going to use that same angry incident from yesterday and break it down into 15 chunks.

1. On the same paper as yesterday, number it 1-15.
2. Write a 15-piece sequence of events (like dominoes) that are believable, if not true, that shows how one event lead to the next event, etc.

                                                              i.      In other words, retell your story from yesterday as a series of dominoes. Be sure to include the anger.

1.      NOTE: If you don’t remember 15 moments, you may make them up as long as they are believable.

3. Finally, choose one piece of the sequence (from the middle) and change it so that your story would have had a happier outcome.
4. Explain in a paragraph, how changing just that one piece would have changed the entire outcome.

·         YESTERDAY we read Act 3, Scene 1…(pgs. 873 – 882)

·         The goal of this assignment is to retell this single scene using THE MOST IMPORTANT LINES of the characters.

o   Below you will find the scene broken down into sections – following each section is the number of characters in each section. Using your book, you are to write down 1 word-for-word quote (the most important one) for each character (within the lines given).

§  THESE ARE DIRECT QUOTATIONS from the play. When finished, you will have 18 word-for-word quotes that retell the main points of this scene.

o   lines 1-35; 2 characters (Benvolio/Mercutio)

o   lines 36-86; 4 characters (Tybalt/Merc/Benv/Romeo)

o   lines 87-126; 3 characters (Merc/Benv/Romeo)

o   lines 127-142; 5 characters

o   lines 143-195; 4 characters

·         For the last 25 minutes of class, watch approx. 25 minutes of Romeo+Juliet beginning with scene 14 (which is at the 35:00 minute mark)…and end at 57:30 (the end of the wedding scene).

·         ALL CLASSWORK WILL BE COLLECTED TOMORROW.

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

·         Finish ALL CLASSWORK (above) -  TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 26

 

With an assigned partner, we wrote 2 short scripts (1-sided).

One that lacked subtlety using: http://www.thestorystarter.com/jr.htm

Then re-wrote same script with subtlety…

 

PLAYWRITING homework:

 

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