Drama: 11/28,29/12

Guiding Q

• How do you create a believable character?
• How do you create and keep a character notebook?

Bell Ringer

• Read "The Janitor" in the book, pages 454, 455
• Students are to thoroughly break out all emotions, thoughts, and motivations of the character on a piece of paper

Activities

• Class will thoroughly discuss all the ideas and more that the students revealed in the bell ringer and more
• This will be related to "Where is the drama in a dramatic reading?"
• Mini lesson
• Reading for information versus a dramatic reading
• Reading poetry and not getting lost in the rhythm and rhyme
• Examples:
• Papa's Letter
• The .38
• Applying dramatic reading understanding to character development for Olustee
• Work on finishing the dramatic readings
• Work on PowerPoint project
• Work on Olustee folder/notebook and historical research