Collaboration Activity:

WeVideo Audio Project & Task Analysis

Learning Targets
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.4
- Determine meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.5
- Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure contributes to its meaning.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.2
- Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, orally) and
explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.

​ Directions:​ You and a partner will create a ​suspenseful​ recording of a self-generated story;
you will use the characters you created last week. Vincent Price’s monologue in “​Thriller”
contains ​elements of suspense​ and s ​ ensory imagery​; it also instilled a certain ​mood​ in the
listener. Your story will be told in a ​WeVideo​ presentation and played in class. You will be
evaluated using the task analysis, as well as with our ​presentation​ ​rubric​.

Our Tasks Put an ‘X’ when done

1. Pick a partner

2. Are you and your partner done with the “​build my own character​” graphic organizer?

3. Brainstorm a plot for your 2 unique characters.

How will they interact? What will happen to them?
​ *Your plot​ needs an exposition: setting, characters, problem*
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-If you need help ​ ​ see “getting started” below
getting started,

4. Collaborate on creating a script (dialogue) - ​example

5. Script needs 5 examples of ​sensory imagery

6. Script needs at least 2 ​suspenseful​ moments

7. Script needs to elicit (bring out) a ​mood

8. When read aloud, script shouldn’t go longer than 3 minutes.

9. Script should include at least 2 examples of ​onomatopoeia

10. Script has been edited by another pair - collaboration

11. We practiced our script 2 times before recording on WeVideo

12. We used WeVideo to record audio of our script and to add effects

13. We turned in our script and audio project on Google Classroom

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Getting started…
What are our characters’ names?

How did our characters meet?

What is their relationship to each other?

What is our story’s setting? Be descriptive.

What is our story’s problem? What type of

conflict is/are our character(s) facing?

5 examples of ​sensory imagery​ in our story 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

2 ​suspenseful​ moments 1. 2.

What ​mood​ do we want our readers to feel

when listening to our short story?

Did we practice reading our script aloud?

If it goes longer than 3 minutes, you’ll need to
shorten it.

2 examples of ​onomatopoeia 1. 2.

Your short story may start with a narrator (like in “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”).

Please ​italicize any text that is spoken by a narrator.

SCRIPT EXAMPLE:
Narrator:​ ​“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as
space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow—between science
and superstition. And it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the
dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.”

Setting explanation:​ (At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, it will be 6:43 p.m. on Maple
Street. A boy, TOMMY, looks up to listen to a tremendous screeching roar from over head. A flash of
light plays on the boys’ faces. It moves down the street, past lawns and porches and rooftops, and
disappears. STEVE BRAND stops polishing his car and stands transfixed, staring upward. He looks at
DON MARTIN, his neighbor from across the street.)

Steve: ​What was that? A meteor?

Don: ​That’s what it looked like. I didn’t hear any crash, though, did you?
Steve: ​(shaking his head) Nope. I didn’t hear anything except a roar.
Mrs. Brand:​ Steve? What was that?

Our story’s title:

Our setting:

Our script: