Happy, Efficient Acting Companies: February 15, 2018

Focus: How do we set up our Acting Companies to make sure we work happily and efficiently together?

1. Warming up with Grammar You Must Know, Lesson #6: Verb Tenses with your speech partner

2. Reading between the lines with your first Connect, Extend, Challenge entry on something specific from Act 1, Scene 1

• View first 10 minutes of film version with a focus on external and internal conflicts (group brainstorming)

• Select one line from the play or one observation from the film and compose your Connect, Extend, Challenge entry for 1.1; please compose and publish these on your personal blog.

3. Setting up expectations for your acting companies and Reader's Theater

4. Working with your acting companies

• Setting up norms on how to function happily and efficiently together

• Reading the plot summary and your scene together:

• What are you seeing?
• What are you thinking?
• What are you wondering?

HW:
1. For Tuesday: Complete your Connect, Extend, Challenge blog entry for the scene you read with your acting company today. You need to select THREE lines from your scene; compose your connection, extension, and challenge for each one. These should be published on your personal blog.

2. For every day: BRING STICKY NOTES!

3. Tomorrow, Friday, February 16, marks the end of the first 6 weeks. Please submit all make-up work, revised work, and missing work by Tuesday, February 20. Also, if any of your grades are incorrect, please e-mail me by Tuesday. After Tuesday, all grades in IC will stand as they are.