1. For Today’s Class, you will need…
Two pieces of notebook paper: one for class activities and one for notes.
Your textbook

2. Set Dialogue Acts Tragedy Monologue Props Drama Playwright Comedy
On your paper for class activities:
Choose THREE of the following words and write definitions for them. It is okay if you do not know the exact definition – write your best guess.
Acts
Tragedy
Monologue
Props
Drama
Playwright
Comedy
Stage Directions
Scenes

3. On your paper for notetaking…
Label it “Elements of Drama”
This will go on your Table of Contents
Write down all of the definitions on the following pages:

4. Drama - A story told in dialogue by performers in front of an audience.
EXAMPLES:
You will most likely read these in high school.

5. Types of Drama Comedy Tragedy Happy ending
Features normal characters in funny situations
Tragedy
Events lead to the downfall of main character
Main character can be average person, but could be a person of great significance, like a king

6. Playwright Acts Scenes the author of a drama. segments of a drama
segments of an act

7. Set
construction on stage that suggests the time and place of the action (also known as scenery)
Props
small moveable items that actors use to make their actions look realistic.

8. “Dragonwings”
Laurence Yep wrote the novel “Dragonwings.” Read on pg. 648 about his experience of turning it into a drama.
What were some of the changes that Yep needed to make between the novel and the play?
Read the selection of the novel on pgs

9. Dramatization
Parts: Moon Shadow, Miss Whitlaw, Uncle Bright Star, Windrider, Others, Narrator (to read stage directions)

10. On your paper for class activities…
Answer questions 1-3 on pg. 658.
When finished, hand in your “class activities” paper and put your “notes” paper in your binder.