Please complete the following today in class:
Journal Writing/Brainstorming/Gathering Ideas: 1st step in the writing process:
A setting is: The natural and artificial scenery or environment in which characters in literature live and move. It is the when and where your story takes place.
A setting can be: INTERIOR (happening inside) or EXTERIOR (happening outside)
A setting includes:
Please gather in these groups to read the play. Each student should take one of the parts of the play and read it aloud together. One person should read the stage directions and keep track of time.
Particularly take note of the writerly advice (most of which should sound familiar): to overcome a blank page, the only way to push through "writer's block" is to write. Set time aside every day to write. For you (and your busy lives) use the time given to you every day in the lab to focus on your writing. You can socialize later. The more you practice, the better a writer you will become!
This marking period we will be doing a lot more reading. Find inspiration from reading plays and seeing plays, when possible. Get involved in theatre in order to understand the form. This is how you grow as a student and a writer.
After completing the handout, please complete three of the five exercises at the end in your journal. (Do not turn these in to me--put them in your journal). You should continue to keep a journal to jot down ideas and exercises we complete in class. Continually add to your brainstorming. As you know, brainstorming or gathering ideas is the first step in the writing process. What you put there you can use for writing projects later.
Journal Writing/Brainstorming/Gathering Ideas: 1st step in the writing process:
- 1. In your notebook/journal, etc. write the first 10 names you can think of.
- 2. In your notebook/journal, etc. write the first 10 settings you can think of.
1. Who is Alfred Uhry?The third question concerns SETTING, an essential element of playwriting. Every story and script needs an interesting SETTING.
2. What year did Uhry write Driving Miss Daisy? What year did he win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
3. What was Atlanta, Georgia like in 1940's through the 1970's?
4. What famous historical American figure lived in Atlanta, Georgia in 1948?
A setting is: The natural and artificial scenery or environment in which characters in literature live and move. It is the when and where your story takes place.
A setting can be: INTERIOR (happening inside) or EXTERIOR (happening outside)
A setting includes:
- Artifacts or Props (the things characters use)
- Clothes (the things characters wear)
- Time of day, conditions of the weather
- Geography and location
- Trees, animals, and nature
- Inside and outside sounds, smells, sights
- All physical and temporal objects. So that means setting refers to:
- The location (locale) or place the story is set
- The weather (including the season)
- The time
- The time period (historical period)
Please gather in these groups to read the play. Each student should take one of the parts of the play and read it aloud together. One person should read the stage directions and keep track of time.
Group A: Branden, Diamond, Kayli, Ben, EvanHOMEWORK: Finish the play on your own. Bring your plays back with you to next class. Please read the chapter handout on "Being a Playwright" from the book The Elements of Playwriting by Louis Catron.
Group B: Frances, Carly, Imani G., Thiery
Group C: Gena, Nicole, Ethan, Nathan
Group D: Imani M, Shayzonique, Isaiah, Grace
Group E: Alexis, Jahni, Kamphasong, Damarys
Particularly take note of the writerly advice (most of which should sound familiar): to overcome a blank page, the only way to push through "writer's block" is to write. Set time aside every day to write. For you (and your busy lives) use the time given to you every day in the lab to focus on your writing. You can socialize later. The more you practice, the better a writer you will become!
This marking period we will be doing a lot more reading. Find inspiration from reading plays and seeing plays, when possible. Get involved in theatre in order to understand the form. This is how you grow as a student and a writer.
After completing the handout, please complete three of the five exercises at the end in your journal. (Do not turn these in to me--put them in your journal). You should continue to keep a journal to jot down ideas and exercises we complete in class. Continually add to your brainstorming. As you know, brainstorming or gathering ideas is the first step in the writing process. What you put there you can use for writing projects later.
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