TODAY’S AGENDA Do Now Topics for Plays PowerPoint If you haven’t done Achieve 3000 Level

Set Test, you must do that after the PowerPoint

Brainstorm topics & settings for possible plays

Vocabulary Review (Test postponed due to technical difficulties)

Peer evaluation of play plot possibilities.

TOPICS FOR PLAYS

Creative Writing

Benjamin Way

2/28/14

OVERVIEW Message of a play Setting of a play Vehicle for delivery of message Genres of plays

SETTING OF A PLAY Every play is a story. Every story needs to have a setting. Things to consider:

Where is it?When is it?Who are the characters?What is their world normally like?What is going to change to drive the story?

MESSAGE OF A PLAY As with all literature, good plays aren’t

just stories; they are lessons. Most have a message about one (or

more) of the following:Human relationshipsSocial/societal issuesNational issuesGlobal issuesReligious issuesPolitical issues

VEHICLE FOR DELIVERY OF THE MESSAGE Every story gives its message somehow.

Some have characters say it directly to the audience at some point

Some let the audience figure out some truth through the way events happen

Some show the audience the opposite of what they want to say, and make it ironic

Some make each character represent something, and tell their message symbolically

GENRES OF PLAY Comedy – Funny, with a happy ending. Tragedy – Dramatic, with a sad ending. Tragic comedy – Funny, with a sad

ending. History - Based on reality.