Tuesday (4/14), 95 minutes

[MATH M-STEP FOR JUNIORS]

Wednesday (4/15), 50 minutes

[FRIDAY SCHEDULE]

Thursday (4/16), 95 minutes

Begin playwriting unit

Judiths Free Verse talk

Finish Free Verse averaging

Free Verse score averaging

Editors working on layout

Intro: what is absurdist fiction (plays)? Why

read them?
Zach Galifinakis clip interview with
Obama
o What makes this interview
absurd? Specific examples?
o How do we react as an
audience?

Editors begin working on layout

Read The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco

in class
Short writing that mimics The Bald Soprano
have students brainstorm ideas
Introduce culminating writing assignment
Freewriting to figure out what they would
like their absurdist play to be about

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Learning Target(s):

Learning Target(s):

Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Week 1:

Week 2:
Tuesday (4/21), 95 minutes

Thursday (4/23), 50 minutes

Friday (4/24), 50 minutes

(Computer cart A reserved)

[FRIDAY SCHEDULE]

[FRIDAY SCHEDULE]

Read a (shorter) play

The Future is in Eggs
While were reading, I want you to pay
attention to what makes the dialogue so
snappy, and Im going to ask you about
it afterward.
Dialogue that is snappy

*Look at pg. 120 in Old Faithful book lesson

on writing monologues*

10 minute peer discussions about play plans

Return to formatting, talk about formatting

in playwriting
How to write stage directions, etc.
Look back through the text and identify
what makes dialogue snappy?
Do you italicize action, or do you put it
in brackets?

Time for students to work on plays in class

Read another shorter play, The Leader
Discuss authors choices
Discuss how it is absurdist how do
you know? What specific
examples/quotes lead you to that?
Peer review of play descriptions discuss the
5Ws and H; have students turn in at the end of
class

Me: Collect play drafts and provide

feedback

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Write the first scene of your play

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Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5

How to write dialogue that moves the play

forward, accomplishes something
Go ahead with one of your ideas from
Thursday and write the opening page
Begin collaborative play write (dialogue)
as a group
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~1 page of writing describing your play (the
5Ws + H). Be specific! What is the main
conflict?
Have them write these criteria down
before leaving class
Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.B
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Week 3:
Tuesday (4/28), 95 minutes
Monologues present 1-2 powerful
monologues to students and have someone
read each aloud in a dramatic voice
Talk about what makes these
monologues powerful
Trace the energy in the monologue, get
students thinking critically about what
goes in a monologue so they dont
write ones that fall flat

Thursday (4/30), 95 minutes

Friday (5/1), 50 minutes

(Computer cart A reserved)

(Computer cart A reserved)

Perform collaborative play

Time to work on plays in class

Individual work time to work on our own

plays

Workshop with a peer or Megan

For next class:

For next class:

For next class:

Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.B
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D

Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D

Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D

Add a monologue to our collaborative play?

Write a monologue from one of your
characters
Final play must include a monologue

Talk about successful endings

Should leave the reader thinking and
wanting more how did this play do
that? How have the other plays weve
read done that?

Week 4:
Tuesday (5/5), 95 minutes

Thursday (5/7), 95 minutes

Friday (5/8), 50 minutes

Present plays

Present plays

Present plays

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Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Learning Target(s):
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5