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Journal Writing - Match the word with the definition.

Journal Writing - Match the word with the definition. drama script setting cast of characters conflict dialogue stage directions stage

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Journal Writing - Match the word with the definition.

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  1. Journal Writing - Match the word with the definition. drama script setting cast of characters conflict dialogue stage directions stage scene playwright narrator plot prop act

  2. Crafting the Lesson These are the elements of drama:

  3. Purpose • What are you learning? The elements of drama • Why are you learning this? To understand how plays are developed and written.

  4. Crafting the Lesson • Drama: • A script is written by a playwright • It is intended to be performed on a stageusing propsand a cast of characters • It is broken into scenes and acts with a particular setting, plot, stage directions, and conflict. • Some plays have a narrator, and other plays have both a narrator and dialogue between the characters. • Drama is performed before an audience.

  5. Drama(we) AT CURTAIN RISE: CURTIS strides out among the rocks at right. He is sixteen, and comfortable being alone. He stumbles on a stone and pushes out of the trail with a slender branch he is using as a staff. A truck door slams. He stiffens. A few minutes later VALERIE appears, dressed like him in jeans and sweatshirt, raking her tangled hair ... VALERIE: Curtis, don’t do stuff like this to me. I woke up and there I was, parked all by myself in the middle of nowhere, with my feet out the window. CURTIS(pointing up the slope): There’s a trail up there that makes a loop. So I walked around it, to get the kinks out. VALERIE: Yeah, tell me about kinks. I feel like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. How long did I sleep? CURTIS: About six hours. VALERIE: You’re kidding. Nobody can sleep six hours in the cab of a pickup truck and live to tell about it. CURTIS: Well, I guess you just made medical history. VALERIE: Where is this? Are we still in Oregon? CURTIS(taking a pebble out of his shoe): No, we’ve crossed back into California. After you didn’t wake up, I thought, What am I supposed to be doing? So I pulled off the highway and stopped here. • What characters are introduced in the excerpt from “Holding Out”? • What do you learn about the characters and the setting from the opening stage directions? • How many scenes does the excerpt include? How do you know?

  6. Drama(two) • Read the excerpt from “The Hitch-Hiker,” by Lucille Fletcher on worksheet 30a Heath Middle Level. • With a partner, use the elements of drama to label the excerpt. • In the list of the play’s cast, how many characters are identified by name? • How many characters in the excerpt have dialogue? What do you learn about these characters from their dialogue? • How many scenes does the excerpt include? If there are any changes in scene, identify where they take place? • Why are the stage directions at the beginning of the first scene important?

  7. Composing Meaning • Read the “Enormous Nose” by Mark, 8th grader. Use the chart on worksheet 31 from Heath Middle Level 8 to find examples of the characteristics of drama in the play.

  8. Reflection • What are the elements of drama?

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