1. Today we will learn….. How writers can change their World. 11 Dec 2017
Bell Activity: REMEMBER….YOUR RED KAYAK ESSAY IS DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD TOMORROW. YOU MUST COME WITH YOUR ESSAY ALREADY PRINTED OUT. IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY PRINTED YOUR ESSAY, CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS:
PRINT YOUR ESSAY AT HOME
PRINT YOUR ESSAY IN THE LIBRARY TODAY AT LUNCH OR AFTER SCHOOL
PRINT YOUR ESSAY IN MRS. SAUNDERS’ ROOM AT BREAK OR AFTER SCHOOL
(She only has two student computers, beware of lines)
MRS. SAUNDERS WITH A POLITE REQUEST THAT SHE PRINT YOUR
ESSAY FOR YOU, ATTACH IT TO THE …ALL BEFORE 7:00 AM.
Today we will learn…..
How writers can change their
World.

2. During our unit of “A Christmas Carol” we are learning how an author can affect a whole society through theme and how he or she uses the other literary elements and his or her writing skills (word choice, rhythm, punctuation, etc) to create that society changing theme.

3. Just a little background to help you understand the play better….
The play was written by Charles Dickens during the Industrial Revolution.

4. The Industrial Revolution
Movie references:
Oliver Twist: The Poor
My Fair Lady: Poor vs Rich
Mary Poppins: Upper Middle Class
Methods used to deal
with the poor.
treadmill
workhouse
Poor Law
Debtors prison

5. ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
Dickens was an advocate for the poor.

6. Setting Conflict Plot Theme Character
DRAMA IS A GENRE OF LITERATURE AND THEREFORE, INCLUDES THE 5 BASIC LITERARY ELEMENTS.
Setting Conflict
Plot Theme
Character

7. Setting is where and when the play takes place.
In a play, the setting is usually described in a note or stage directions at the opening of the play and each scene.

8. The series of events or action in a drama.
Plot
The series of events or action in a drama.
The plot in a novel, short story or play is defined the same and would be shown on a plot diagram with rising action, climax and resolution.

9. Conflict within the plot
There are five main types of conflict:
Character vs. self
Character vs. character
Character vs. society
Character vs. nature
Character vs. Fate

10. Theme
….the central idea about life or human behavior that the drama reveals.

11. CHARACTERS
CHARACTERS ARE THE INDIVIDUALS OR FORCES THAT ARE IN THE DRAMA.
They include MAJOR and MINOR Characters, as well as a PROTAGONIST & an ANTAGONIST.
Some characters will be ROUND & some FLAT, Some DYNAMIC & some STATIC.

12. 4 Additional Elements of Drama
Acts and Scenes
Intermission
Cast
Dialogue
Monologue
Stage Directions

13. Acts, Scenes & Intermission:
The Drama
Acts, Scenes & Intermission:
Act I
intermission
Act 2
ACTS: Most dramas have 1 to 3 Acts.
The playwrite breaks a drama into Acts
so there can be an “intermission”.
INTERMISSION: a break (usually near the middle of the play) between acts to allow the audience to stretch and take a break
Each Act is made up of SCENES. A scene in a play = of a chapter in a book.
Scenes 1 2 3 4 5

14. CAST The cast refers to the characters in a play.
At the beginning of most plays, the playwright gives a list of all the characters - this is called the CAST OF CHARACTERS.
The Cast of Characters will often list how the characters are related to one another.

15. Dialogue is the spoken conversation between characters in a play.

16. Monologue (Also known as Soliloquy)
A Monologue, or Soliloquy, is a type of dialogue. It is a speech by one character who is alone on the stage, speaking to himself or the audience. .

17. The most Famous soliloquy in Enlgish drama is in the play “Hamlet”, by Wm. Shakespeare.
“To Be Or Not To Be”: Spoken by Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1 To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

18. Stage Directions
Stage Directions describe details of the setting and sound effects as well as direct characters how to speak their lines,
move,
act
and
look.

19. For Example:
MISS MORAY: Now, we’ll just move directly into the specimen room. The working conditions will be ideal for you in here.
(HELEN looks ready to gag as she looks around the specimen room. The room is packed with specimen jars of all sizes. Various animals and parts of animals are visible in their formaldehyde baths.)
What the character does, feels, or how they look.
What the scene looks like

20. L = stage left D.C. = Down stage center U.R. = up stage right
U.C. = up stage center
U.R. = up stage right
U. L. = up stage left
R = stage right
L = stage left
center stage
D.R. = down stage right
DL = down
stage left
D.C. = Down stage center

21. In a readers’ theater, you can’t rely on your expression or body language, you have only your tone of voice, the volume of your voice, when you pause and how long you pause, and the speed with which you speak to communicate the characters feeling and opinions to the audience.
You will not be formally auditioning for parts, however, I do want the opportunity to hear how well you can use your voice to act so we will spend just a few minutes today practicing.

22. Sam: Good Morning, teacher. Teacher: Good Morning, Sam
Sam: What would you like us to do this morning?
Teacher: Please take out your homework.
Sam: You bet. This day is going to be awesome.
Here is the basic script we will be working with. Notice it is only dialogue, no stage directions.

23. I need a student to help me provide an example:
Sam: (coughing, seemingly ill)
Good Morning, teacher.
Teacher: (Concerned, she approaches) Good Morning, Sam
Sam: (he has second more intense coughing fit, which causes the teacher to back away)What would you like us to do this morning?
Teacher: (speaking loudly from across the room) Please take out your homework.
Sam: (wearily, as he collapses in his seat) You bet. This day is going to be awesome.

24. Practice Reading according to stage directions
Find a partner.
Practice the script provided for 60 seconds.
As other students perform, can you guess what the stage directions say?
SWAP

25. To accomplish our learning target you will need to be INVOLVED with the story.
HOW TO BE INVOLVED
READ A PART OR PARTS
Try to act through your voice
READ ALONG THROUGH THE ENTIRE PLAY
TAKE NOTES ON THE ELEMENTS
COMPLETE THE “4 GHOSTS” WORKSHEET
COMPLETE THE “WHAT HE SAID! WORKSHEET

26. On the slip of paper:
Write your name
Below it write what size of part you would like to try
Minor (3-4 lines in the scene)
Medium (5-10 lines in a scene)
Major (over 10 lines in a scene)
Then look through the cast list and write down the name of a character you would like to read.
Do NOT fold the paper. Place the paper in the RED BASKET at the FRONT OF THE ROOM

27. Read and annotate the article provided.
Be prepared to answer quiz questions from the article later on this week.