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“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?” ― Amy Tan

4/30/2014

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Hour 1: 
The 22 Rules of Storytelling

Critical Readers/In Class Reading
Critique partner's At Rise:
-Is there a sense of action in the "at rise"? Or a mood that is being set? If so, what is it? If not, how can your partner set us up with more intention?

Critique partner's dialogue:
-Do the characters speak with distinct voices?
-Do we stay in ONE PLACE the entirety of scene 1?
-How long is the scene? Are we getting all the action we can get out of this one location?

Critique partner's FTF statement:
-Does this statement give us a full arch of a story? Does it give you a sense of where the story is going? 

Work on finishing Scene 1 and starting Scene 2

Hour 2:
Read The Joy Luck Club
Literary devices
What makes good writing? 

Read Notice Something Papers out loud

Some honest plays

HW:
-Scene 1 
-Beginning of Scene 2

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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." ~Confucious

4/29/2014

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Due NOW, beginning of class:
Your document should be shared with Carol and your critical reader
+has 2-3 character descriptions
+has setting description
+has emotion reflection in comment section

Critical Readers/In Class Reading
-Critical readers read setting and characters and comments in the doc based on shared attributes of interesting setting/good character
-Begin play outline, at rise and beginning of scene 1 

Homework:
-Finish play outline
-Finish at rise
-Begin Scene 1 
-Notice something. 
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"As an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself." ~Steven Spielberg

4/28/2014

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Play Format--SHARE your document with me AND your critical reader by end of day today. 
-Document should be labeled Title by Your Name-- if you have a title, you may write it down .If not (and I don't expect you to, just put Title for now, you can change it late
-We need to be able to comment on your document. 

Critical Readers/In Class Reading
Critical Reader Expectations
In Class Reading Groups
Schedule for Reading Plays

Homework:
2-3 character descriptions in your play document
1 Setting description in your play document
Shared with Carol & Critical Reader
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." ~Ernest Hemingway

4/28/2014

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Essay Test
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ~R

4/24/2014

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Hour 1 & 2:
Fahrenheit 451 Final Quiz 
Count to 15 
(Score. Class 1= 0, Class 2=1)
Idea Storm (5 minutes)
Anna Ryburn's Play: What are her characters like?
Skylar Hayne's Play: What are his characters like? 
 
Characterization, Continued: What makes a good character?
Imagining Other People's Lives (My Teacher's Secret Life)



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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ~Dr. Seuss

4/23/2014

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Hour 1 & 2: 
Fahrenheit 451 Quiz (End of book)

Finish Fahrenheit 451 Discussion
-Ways that the world is very different from our world
-Ways the world is very much the same as our world

Hand back What If Exercise?
-What if Follow Up

Monday's Essay Test

Characterization Wordle Exercise 
Groups Here 

Character Free Write 


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“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.” ― Red Haircrow

4/22/2014

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Morning
Model UN

Humanities Hour
Quiz: Fahrenheit 451 pages 113-134

Fahrenheit 451 Reading

What If Free Writing Exercise

Homework: Read until (p 145 in my version)
"Once, long ago, Clarisse had walked here, where he was walking now."

Critique Cards (Playwriting Project)



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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein

4/21/2014

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Fahrenheit 451 
Today, I read a few pages of Part 3 with my first class, but didn't get to meet with my second class. By tomorrow, you should be at the lines " But now, she was still asleep. Good night, Mrs. Black, he thought."

This means that you have read Part 2 over the weekend, and the beginning of Part 3 today! 

Model UN Conference
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde

4/17/2014

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Quiz on Reading:
Start line:
"Who is it?"
"Montag out here."
"What do you want?"
Let Me In."

End line:
"The door opened and shut. Montag was in the dark street again, looking at the world."

Model UN

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu

4/16/2014

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Hour 1
QUIZ on: Yesterday you read from: "THEY read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house"


until "He slammed the door" with Lee


and from "He was on the subway" to "The train vanished in its hole" for homework

Reading with Lee

Model UN with Ryan and Leelee


Hour 2
Model UN with Ryan and Leelee
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