Standard #1: Script writing through improvising, writing, and refining scripts based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
Lesson Plans
Lesson 1: Creative Juices Students will demonstrate their ability to generate creative ideas by collaborating on a one-page scene involving two characters.
Lesson 2: Plot Structure Students will demonstrate their understanding of basic dramatic plot structure by creating and performing a five-minute story.
Lesson 3: Character Creation Students will demonstrate their understanding of different character types by writing / performing a two minute original character monologue.
Lesson 4: Dialogue Students will demonstrate their understanding of effective dialogue by writing a 2 ½ minute scene between two people.
Lesson 5: “Far away and long ago” Setting Students will demonstrate their understanding of mood, place, time, and setting by creating an original art piece (drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, etc.) depicting a scene and describe it in a paragraph.
Lesson 6: Genre Students will demonstrate their understanding of different genres of stories by writing a script which adapts an existing fairy tale.
