Plot Chart: Elements of a One-Act Play:
-Simple problem
-Less detail
-2-3 main characters
-Small setting
Essential Questions: How does interacting with a text provoke thinking and response? While your reading thoughts should be following through you head and by talking to the texts you can elaborate more. It is also is a huge benefit when you have to write about what you read because you can connect to it.
What role does writing play in our lives? Writing is a huge part in our everyday life's. Whether it is at a job, making a to-do list or even texting your always writing. Many people use writing as an escape to express themselves.
How do we develop into effective writers? Practice. Practice. Practice. To become better writers practice is key. Nobody is a perfect writer because we are always learning.
To what extent does the writing process contribute to the quality of writing? Without the writing process student's
Project Objectives:
-Write a one-act play with whole-class contributing to idea development
-Write a short story based on the one-act play
-Illustrate the short story book
-Large and small group work
-Actors memorize lines
-Take home book
-Set design
-Play performance in front of audience of preschool children
Project Overview: For our drama unit we thought performing a play for the panther preschool would help paint a picture of the process of creating and performing a play.
Honors English II Collaborates with the Preschool ClassUnit Overview:
Vocabulary Pre-Assessment- Drama Terminology
-Pantomime
-Stage Directions
Tragedy
-Melodrama
-Monologue
-Dialogue
-Aside
-Diction
-Theme
-Foreshadow
-Characterization
-Mood
-Tone
-Inference
-Exposition
-Rising Action
-Climax
-Falling Action
-Resolution
-Protagonist
-Antagonist
-Irony
-Suspense
-Prologue
-Scenes
-Connotation
-Drama
Plot Chart: Elements of a One-Act Play:
-Simple problem
-Less detail
-2-3 main characters
-Small setting
Essential Questions:
How does interacting with a text provoke thinking and response? While your reading thoughts should be following through you head and by talking to the texts you can elaborate more. It is also is a huge benefit when you have to write about what you read because you can connect to it.
What role does writing play in our lives? Writing is a huge part in our everyday life's. Whether it is at a job, making a to-do list or even texting your always writing. Many people use writing as an escape to express themselves.
How do we develop into effective writers? Practice. Practice. Practice. To become better writers practice is key. Nobody is a perfect writer because we are always learning.
To what extent does the writing process contribute to the quality of writing? Without the writing process student's
Project Objectives:
-Write a one-act play with whole-class contributing to idea development
-Write a short story based on the one-act play
-Illustrate the short story book
-Large and small group work
-Actors memorize lines
-Take home book
-Set design
-Play performance in front of audience of preschool children
Project Overview:
For our drama unit we thought performing a play for the panther preschool would help paint a picture of the process of creating and performing a play.