After our quiz today, please complete the following assignment/task:
1. Select a setting. Your setting should include a TIME PERIOD (for example, Fences takes place in 1950's Pittsburgh; The Effect of Gamma Rays...Marigolds takes place in the 1960's). When writers create a setting, it is not just time period, but also LOCATION (a kitchen, a bedroom, a park, a backyard, Atlanta Georgia, Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, etc.), specific TIME (afternoon, evening, 3:00 p.m., etc.) and season (winter, fall, spring, summer). When you choose a setting try to be as specific as possible:
3. Learn a little about what was going on in the world the year or time period you chose for your setting. What happened, for example, in Pittsburgh or America in the 1950's? After researching, we know that the Civil Rights Movement was starting. Baseball teams did not allow Black athletes to play in professional sports. In the South there was still segregation between Blacks and Whites. Research your chosen time period and find out what was going on. Use web searches to find out!
4. As you research, please take notes in your journal.
5. If you haven't researched your time period and setting and taken notes, please stop and do that. Otherwise, continue to step #6.
6. Create 2-5 characters that might be found in the setting you chose. For each character provide a few sentences to describe the character. Use characterization: details or physical description, actions that the character might do, a name, something the character would say about him/herself, something OTHER people might say about the character, etc. Put your notes in your journal.
7. When you have 2-5 characters designed, you are ready to start your play. Using your research, the setting, and the character list, begin writing a play. We will talk about theme and message next class.
Please turn in your test today.
HOMEWORK: None.
1. Select a setting. Your setting should include a TIME PERIOD (for example, Fences takes place in 1950's Pittsburgh; The Effect of Gamma Rays...Marigolds takes place in the 1960's). When writers create a setting, it is not just time period, but also LOCATION (a kitchen, a bedroom, a park, a backyard, Atlanta Georgia, Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, etc.), specific TIME (afternoon, evening, 3:00 p.m., etc.) and season (winter, fall, spring, summer). When you choose a setting try to be as specific as possible:
Example: Rochester, NY in the summer of 1990, early morning outside of a movie theater...2. Once you have a SETTING, you may move on to step 3. If you have not picked a setting yet, please stop.
3. Learn a little about what was going on in the world the year or time period you chose for your setting. What happened, for example, in Pittsburgh or America in the 1950's? After researching, we know that the Civil Rights Movement was starting. Baseball teams did not allow Black athletes to play in professional sports. In the South there was still segregation between Blacks and Whites. Research your chosen time period and find out what was going on. Use web searches to find out!
4. As you research, please take notes in your journal.
5. If you haven't researched your time period and setting and taken notes, please stop and do that. Otherwise, continue to step #6.
6. Create 2-5 characters that might be found in the setting you chose. For each character provide a few sentences to describe the character. Use characterization: details or physical description, actions that the character might do, a name, something the character would say about him/herself, something OTHER people might say about the character, etc. Put your notes in your journal.
7. When you have 2-5 characters designed, you are ready to start your play. Using your research, the setting, and the character list, begin writing a play. We will talk about theme and message next class.
Please turn in your test today.
HOMEWORK: None.
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