Wednesday, April 15, 2015

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 20

·         COLLECT yesterday’s classwork…

o   5 sentences (for each statement) (25 sentences total)

·         Follow up on any student introductions…what happened? How did it go?

·Watch: a pep talk… http://nicertube.com/ve4g6sot

·         Read “Puzballs” paragraph and answered the 4 questions. Discussed how it is possible to answer questions about a nonsensical paragraph.

·         Read “prior knowledge” paragraph. How much of it can you remember? Why is that?

·         Discussed similarities between Shakespeare and these two paragraphs.

·         Continue “Case Study” work (COLLECT FOR GRADE).

1. Write down 3 reasonable solutions.
1. For each of your 3 solutions, write the 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages.
2. Decide which solution is best.
1. In 8 sentences, tell what is likely to happen after your solution is carried out. In other words, what is the ending to your story? It must be believable.
1. What will happen immediately?
2. What will things be like in a week or two?
3. How will things be affected in 10 or more years?
3. Make sure both of your names are on it…then turn it in (on the center table).

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1, 3, 4:

·         For THURSDAY…Sign into Edmodo…and Complete LIAR LIAR and Complete Student Survey on Technology Integration

·         OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: in the next 24 hours, introduce yourself to someone new…report back to class, tomorrow.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 20

·         Discuss what it is that makes the audience care about a character and the outcome of a scene.

• We decided that it is crucial that the audience be able to relate to the character.
• First, we considered relating on the surface: gender, appearance, personality, interests, habits
• Next, we considered sharing a VALUE with the character.
• What is a value?
• How to spend disposable income: save it, buy clothes, donate it, burn it, gamble it, restaurants…
• If the audience could relate to the character on a VALUE level, perhaps the writer can get them to care about the outcome of a scene.
• Create 5 possible scenarios for the 2 characters we wrote biographical sketches for.
• Using your 2 characters…
• Concrete goal (nothing abstract)
• An action (that tells us what kind of person he/she is)
• Obstacle

PLAYWRITING homework:

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