Monday, January 12, 2015

10-minute script for Geva Contest; Portfolio; A Raisin in the Sun

Please work on your portfolio in the lab today.

1. The Geva Young Playwriting Contest is coming up soon. To submit, your play should be no longer than 10 minutes (10 pages or fewer, 6-8 is a great length). Use the plays we have read in class as inspiration.
You may find good subject matter here at this link. Take a look at these links for inspiration: Civil Rights photos, the struggles of Great Black Heroes, or Latinos in History, or American Heroes, etc.
for more ideas:

  • Choose a decade or an important historical event to be the background for your play (you may have characters talk about this event as if it just happened by setting your play in the past.)
  • Choose a controversial subject to use for a theme for your play. Check this link for some suggestions.
2. If you would like, please write a poem/short story. Use your time in the lab to write fiction or poetry drafts. Keep these in your portfolio. 

I will be checking your portfolios next Friday, January 16. You should have new work in your portfolio from this marking period. There is also a mid-term exam. More information about that will be forthcoming. 

Use your time in the lab today to write. Please hand in any homework or completed work to my in-box today.

HOMEWORK: None.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.