CW wk 11 Lesson plan UPDATED

Today's lesson plan below (previous lesson plans for this week pasted below Friday's)
Friday 4/13

Wk 11 lesson plan Mon-Thurs reprinted below

1.Due now:

(assignment#6 )character journal #2
#5)DPS summary
#1) Movie Twitter Feed/Twenty Tweets
 Assignment #7) Do now: Freewrite

2. Discuss DPS and share out tweets and journal 2

Announce participation points (cutoff will be next Friday)

3. Go over the elements of Dramatic Writing and look at examples

Dialogue-based

Stage Directions

Setting

4. Go over HW (and for 5^th per- time to begin part 1)

#8 Two-Day Character Exercise

Part 1: Create/ choose a character for your next submission

Brainstorm (clustering or list) characteristics, appearance, details about your character

Research aspects of character that you don’t have first-hand knowledge or experience (Example if you’re writing about a college student, talk to a college student; if you’re writing about someone that lives in Switzerland, research Switzerland, etc)

(1pg minimum)

Sleep on it (after researching and brainstorming, do part 2 the following day)

Part 2: write 1/2pg-1 pg scene in the dramatic format including your character

 Preview/ announcements/ future deadlines:

*you will have a rough draft submission due 2 weeks (4/27) from now that will be one full dramatic scene of at least 2 pages (may add more later) and includes, dialogue, monologue, and stage directions

*I will collect work next Friday (4/20)

*Participation for wk11&12 cut off is next Friday

Due now: NONe

Do Now: look over work and progress report – doublecheck – any corrections need to be made TODAY

2. Watch movie and do Twitter Feed activity

Movie Twitter Feed

(Assignment 1)Choose a character from the movie

Try to get inside their heads, assume their character and on a piece of paper post at least 10 tweets of a few words to a short paragraph from that character as the movie progresses. A post may be a picture, but it must also include a sentence. It should also include a brief indication of what’s happening or where in the movie the post is coming from.

Example:

Character @myname Mr. Keating @ Missdeleon

Teaching my first class “Oh captain my captain!” These boys are my experiencing poetry in a whole new way. You could tell they’re loving it.

3. (Assignment 2)HW: Write a half a page to a page about your character, use your twitter feed to help you. What was your character like/ What did they say or do to make you think this. Did they have any memorable lines that really showed character?

Tues 3/10

1. Continue DPS movie and tweets

2. (Assignment 3) HW: Journal entry as character

Wed 3/11 & Thu 3/12

1. Due now: Journal 1

Do now: freewrite ½ p (spring break, opinion on movie, etc)

2. continue DPS and tweets

3. (assignment4)Summarize movie (1/2p-1p)

What was the movie about? What were the major (internal/external) conflicts? What was the narrative arc (storyline, plot) of the movie? of your character? (How did you character change? How did the school change?) What was the “dramatic vehicle” (the thing that caused things to change)? What was the fallout, result, or resolution?

4. (assignment#6) Journal #2: Write a 1/2p-1p journal in your character’s POV after the action in the movie has concluded. This can be right after the last scene or years after, when the character is older and looking back (if your character is Neal, you can write from him looking down from above or before his last scene or write from the POV of another character, like Todd, thinking about Neal)