Final Exam Review; Colored Museum Project

Please print out your completed scenes. Meet with your partners for the play script project and together decide on the order of scenes for your plays (there should be between 3-5 scenes for your play...each member should have written one scene).

Together, decide on:
1. A title for your play.
2. Create a complete cast list and break down for each scene. This information should be recorded on a title page. Print out your title page and put the script together in the order that you want it to appear.
3. Hand in your project. It is due today.

On Thursday I will be collecting your journals. Please bring them to class.

Also on Thursday, Jan. 23, we will take our final exam for Performance, Word & Text. You should refer to the following list of terms, vocabulary, and writing materials to study for the exam. You will also be asked to write a short scene, poem, or story for the exam. Prompts will be given to you on the test materials.

You should know the following terms/concepts for your final exam:

• Communication (speech, intrapersonal, interpersonal, public, mass, verbal, nonverbal) (chapter one & two: the communication process/How communication affects your life handouts; blog posts: 9/4, 9/8, 9/19, 9/22; unit exam)
• Conversation (one-to-one communication) (chapter one handout; blog posts: 9/4, 9/8, 9/22; unit exam)
• Connotation (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• Denotation (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• The communication process (idea, encode, sending a message, decode, etc.) (chapter two handout; blog posts: 9/19, 10/6; unit exam)
• Sender/Receiver (chapter two handout; blog posts: 10/6; unit exam)
• Memory & Recall (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• Reasoning & Thinking (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• Fields of experience (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• Symbols (verbal, nonverbal) (chapter two handout; blog posts: 12/18, 1/5; unit exam)
• Kinesics (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• Proxemics (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• Paralanguage (volume, pitch, rate, stress, voice quality, etc.) (chapter two handout; unit exam)
• Vocalization (diaphragm, trachea, vocal cords, larynx, resonators, pharynx, nasal cavities, articulators) (chapter two handout; public speaking tips from blog: 9/26, 10/1; unit exam)
• Reception & feedback (chapter three handout; unit exam)
• Listening vs. Hearing (chapter three handout; blog posts: 9/4, 9/8, 10/16; unit exam)
• How to Avoid Misunderstandings (chapter three handout; blog posts: 10/16; unit exam)
• Barriers to listening (chapter three handout; blog posts 10/16; unit exam)
• Central idea (chapter three handout; unit exam)
• Logical fallacies (name calling, card stacking, bandwagon technique, etc.) (chapter three handout; unit exam)
• Propaganda (chapter three handout; unit exam)
• The hook (delivering speech chapter handout; blog posts: 9/4, 9/8; unit exam)

• Difference between speech and writing (blog: 9/4, 9/8)
• Ways in which humans communicate and reasons why humans communicate (blog 9/4, 9/8)
• Effective speech writing & delivery (9/22, 9/25, 9/26, 10/1; coffeehouse preparation; handouts)
• Speaker (persona), 1st person, 3rd person POV, internal monologue 
• Effective elements of a speech (blog: 9/8, 9/10)
• MLA format and headings (blog: 9/19, 9/22, 9/25)
• Informational speech (blog: 9/22, 9/25, 9/26)
• Subject/Predicate (blog: 9/25; grammar & style)
• Brainstorming techniques (blog: 10/9, 10/10)
• Writing techniques to start a poem (blog: 10/15)
• Literary genres: (realism, chick lit, non-fiction/memoir, fantasy, sci-fi, horror/suspense, romance, western, historical fiction, mysteries, etc. (blog: 10/18, brochures)
• Types of Readers: Fantacists, Realists, Pragmatists (blog: 10/21)
• Protagonist (blog: 11/25)
• Confessional poetry (blog: 12/5)
• Conflict types (blog: 12/16)
• Drama vocabulary: symbol, allegory, character motivation, characterization, essential question, reversal of fortune, dark moment, enlightenment, etc. (blog: 12/18, 1/5)

Novels/plays/Major Works Read:

• Love That Dog; Sharon Creech (blog: 10/6, 10/9)
• The Thief of Always; Clive Barker (blog: 10/23, 10/27, 10/29, 11/1, 11/4)
• 12 Angry Men (blog: 11/11, 11/14, 11/17)
• Spoon River & Edgar Lee Masters (blog: 12/2, 12/5)
• The Zoo Story; Edward Albee (blog: 12/16)
• August Wilson: The Piano Lesson (blog: 12/18, 1/5)
• The Colored Museum; George C. Wolfe (blog: 1/8, 1/10, 1/14)
• The Civil Rights Movement (black history poem project; August Wilson's Piano Lesson; The Colored Museum, etc.)

USE YOUR TIME TODAY IN CLASS (after you have completed the assignment above) TO STUDY FOR YOUR FINAL EXAM!

HOMEWORK: STUDY FOR YOUR EXAM! Journals are also due next class.