1. Prompt: A monologue while you're brushing your teeth

2. Weekly Focus overview

3. First half: Drama kickoff

Second half: IRP topic and research question

PM

I Am Malala Seminar

1. Discussion: What do you know about the history of theater? (5 min)

2. Mini-lesson on Origins of Drama & practice notetaking with a video (15 min)

3. Watch Act 1, Scene 1 of the film version of Raisin in the Sun with scripts open and highlighters ready. Track the characters’ attitudes about money for CRC #2. (30 min)

4. Write in your planner: theater & drama vocabulary quiz on Dec. 9th (2 min)

5. If time: Create a Spelling List page with tab in your spiral with space for 20 words.

6. If time: Begin study guide for Dec. 9th quiz, which will include theatre, drama, and playwriting terminology we cover in the cycle. (assignment is in GC)

HW: 

• Reading Raisin, plus CRC #2

• Add words that recently marked as misspelled from any of your work to your personal Spelling List

• Begin adding to your study guide

PM

• 1:00-2:00 Select Writing conferences with Jen and Laura / Work on IRP

• 2:00-2:10 BREAK

• 2:10-3:15 Theater games / Read-thru of 30 Min. Version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

1. IRP lesson: Research Question: Craft your research question using one of these 3 frames:

   • Compare/contrast

   • Interpretation

   • Cause & Effect

2. IRP work time & writing confs

   
   

   AFTERNOON

3. Part I (60 min)

   1. Writing prompt: write an argument between 2 people that is all stage directions and no speaking. HW check (spelling list)

   2. Mini-lesson on dramatic structure

      1. T/P/S: dramatic structure. With a seat buddy.

   3. Great Migration overview

   4. Watch Act 1, Scene 2 of the film version of Raisin in the Sun with scripts open and pencils ready to note what's different between play and film. (30 min)

4. BREAK (10 min)

5. Part II (60)

   1. Stages & Parts of Stage

   2. Intro to Shakespeare

   3. Theatre companies

      
      

      
      

HW: 

• Reading Raisin, plus CRC #3

• Add words that recently marked as misspelled from any of your work to your personal Spelling List

• Keep working on study guide

1. Directions for Acting Companies

2. Model how to break down a scene

3. 40 minutes: Twelfth night scene work

AFTERNOON

1. Part I (60 min)

   1. Professor Dale Winling

2. BREAK (10 min)

3. Part II (60) / Open Work Time for:

   1. IRP

   2. CRCs

   3. Rehearsal

   4. Drama terms study guide

   5. Reading Raisin in the Sun

IRP writing & check-ins

AFTERNOON

1. Drama Lesson: Part I (60 min)

   1. Genre overview

   2. Function of Monologue speech

   3. Walter's monologue

   4. Raisin in the Sun: Act 2, Scene 1

2. BREAK (10 min)

3. Part II (60) / Work Time for Twelfth Night Rehearsals

HW: Study for quiz

PM: Host Streetlight Shakespeare company