1. TV/FILM Writing
Week 3

2. Monday Bell Ringer: Get out the rubric for the Multimedia Poster
On the back (the side that says Evaluation Checklist), read through each of the bullets and highlight what is requested.
Example:
Variety of Pictures: Does your collage illustrate a wide variety of examples and representations of your archetype? Does it represent how this archetype exists across cultures, time periods and genres?

3. Finish Poster: You have the rest of today to finish poster
Gallary Walk tomorrow

4. Tuesday Bell Ringer:
Find your poster and hang on the wall

5. As You Do The Gallery Walk:
Take notes on each of the hybrid archetypes.
Take a grade sheet and grade the poster listed at the top. (make sure it isn’t YOUR poster!)
When finished:
Pick your favorite hybrid and explain it in a sentence. Place on a Post-It and put on board.

6. Theme Notes:
Theme: the message, or lesson, that the author wants you to learn from the story
Ask yourself:
What did the characters learn?
How did the characters grow or change?
Why did the characters act this way?
Common Topics for theme: Not actual themes!
Courage
Dreams
Kindness
Fears
Being yourself
Equality
Hope
Differences
Friendship
Hard work
Honesty
Love
Family
Jealousy
Never give up
Do the right thing
Acceptance
peace

7. Darious help:

8. Notes from Darious:
Theme: Writers or film makers message to the audience
Universal
How does the main character change throughout the show?
Don’t be to vague!
It’s subjective! You see it; you own it!
When you write, some themes will continually pop up!
They are important to you!
Don’t force a theme!

9. Practice: Watch and Theme!

10. What are Topics? What is the Theme?

11. Another:

12. What are Topics? What is the Theme?

13. Movie: Blindside Day After Tomorrow Freedom Writers
Dead Poet’s Society

14. WEDNESDAY: Winner: Day After Tomorrow
As we watch:
Take your own notes about the movie.
Make sure you are hitting all the points that you need for your paper on Friday!
Exposition (Act One)
Inciting Incident (Act One)
Rising Action (Act Two)
Turning Point (Act Two)
Falling Action (Act Three)
Resolution (Act Three)
Protagonist
Antagonist
Supporting Characters
Brief outline of each sub-plot (title “B”, “C”, “D”, etc)
Central Theme of the story
Archetypes of the characters

15. THURSDAY: Winner: Day After Tomorrow
As we watch:
Take your own notes about the movie.
Make sure you are hitting all the points that you need for your paper on Friday!
Exposition (Act One)
Inciting Incident (Act One)
Rising Action (Act Two)
Turning Point (Act Two)
Falling Action (Act Three)
Resolution (Act Three)
Protagonist
Antagonist
Supporting Characters
Brief outline of each sub-plot (title “B”, “C”, “D”, etc)
Central Theme of the story
Archetypes of the characters

16. FRIDAY: Finish Movie if needed
When finished with movie, we will go to the library to type up what you found.
Please use complete sentences and proper grammar!