Scene 2 REVISED Due on Tue. 4/4

• Turn in your rough draft, peer edit sheet, and revised copy to me stapled together in this order from bottom to top.
• If you are writing a 5-scene play instead of a 3-scene play, understand that your scenes 2, 3, and 4 will constitute the rising action that takes place in the scene 2 of a 3-scene play. Your action will rise through scenes 2, 3, and 4 with you climax taking place at the end of scene 4.
  
• REMEMBER...THE CLIMAX OF YOU PLAY TAKES PLACE WHEN YOUR CHARACTER EITHER GETS WHAT HE/SHE WANTS, OR IS DENIED WHAT HE/SHE WANTS.

• YOUR CHARACTER'S "WANT" MUST BE AN INTANGIBLE WANT. SOMETHING INTANGIBLE DOES NOT EXIST IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD. IT IS A THOUGHT, A CONCEPT, SUCH AS "FREEDOM" OR "HAPPINESS"
  

Journal # 36 3/30/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please use the SAT Word of the Day in your answer.

Word of the Day:
succumb (verb)
Definition: 1. to give way to superior force; yield. 2. to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die

Synonyms: submit, give in

Quote:
Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Journal # 35 3/29/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please use the SAT Word of the Day in your answer.

Word of the Day:
succinct (adj.)
Definition: 1. expressed in few words; concise; terse. 2. characterized by conciseness or verbal brevity. 3. compressed into a small area, scope, or compass.
Synonyms: brief, short

Quote:
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie

Classwork for Tuesday 3/28

Work on one of the two following assignments:

1. Scene 2 of your play
2. 2nd Subtopic essay

Journal # 34 3/28/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please use the SAT Word of the Day in your answer.

SAT Word:
confluence \KON-floo-uhn(t)s\, noun: 1. A flowing or coming together; junction. 2. The place where two rivers, streams, etc. meet. 3. A flocking or assemblage of a multitude in one place; a large collection or assemblage.

Quote:
“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

Marilyn Manson

Homework for 3/28 & 3/29

3/28-Scene Two-Body of Play-Rising Action to Climax (Main Char. uses Tactics to Realize Their Want but Encounter Multiple Complications until they achieve/don't achieve their goal)

3/29-Subtopic Paragraph #2

SAT Word of the Day-3/27/06

skeptical (adj.)

Definition: 1. inclined to skepticism; having doubt. 2. showing doubt. 3. denying or questioning religion or the tenets of a religion. 4. (cap.) of or pertaining to Skeptics or Skepticism.

Synonyms: doubtful

Write a sentence using today's word CORRECTLY.

Journal #33 3/23/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

Playwright's Project-DUE 3/23

ACTORS ARE COMING THURSDAY TO PERFORM YOUR SCENES!!

Meet in the auditorium Thursday.

Bring:
2 copies of your scene.
Your first draft with peer review stapled to it.

Your scenes are looking good. Keep up the good work. The junior classes are doing better than the seniors. WHAZZUP '06??
(Copied from Becknell)

Journal #32 3/22/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

Playwright's Project Scene 1-DUE 3/21

Requirements for Scene 1:

2 characters
1 setting
Use the format from the handout (Character names centered, dialogue left justified,characters, setting, rise all described at top of page)
typed in 12 point font, times new roman
length - 3 pages (minimum)

Goals of Scene 1:

Meet main character.
Find out what character wants.
Three reasons why character wants it.
What is the obstacle?

Don't forget -- Use your nuclear sentence to focus your scene. You are showing the audience the information in your nuclear sentence.

Journal #31 3/21/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

Today's women
Born yesterday
Dealing with tomorrow
Not yet where we're going
But not still where we were.

Adrienne Rich

Research Paper Body Paragraphs

Start writing your research paper essays. You will develop each subtopic as an individual essay. The worksheet for developing these subtopic essays is HERE.

Journal #30 3/20/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Isabel Allende

Journal #29 3/17/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Isabel Allende

Journal #28 3/16/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Joan of Arc

Begin writing your paper...

• Take out your outline and your concept map.
• Before you begin writing, take some time to put your concept map and borrowed material (pictures, etc.) in the order they will appear in your project. You can use your outline as a guide for this important step. You don't want to be searching for these things as you are writing.
• You will write your first paragraph about the first subtopic in your outline. (Your introduction will be written later.) Introduce that subtopic in the first sentence.
  
• The body of that paragraph will be more information about the first subtopic and your evidence for why it supports your thesis statement.
• Use your note cards to get borrowed material (quotes, statistics, etc) to use as evidence. You may also include pictures here from other sources. Remember that you need to cite all borrowed material immediately after you use it.
• You will continue in this manner until you reach the conclusion section of your outline.
  

Once you are done, do a first proof read to check for spelling and grammatical errors, and make sure that all borrowed material is properly cited.

Journal #27 3/15/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

Playwright's Project-DUE 3/16

1. Decide what conflict you will be exploring in your play.
2. Choose a main character who is experiencing the economic conflict.
3. Write a one-page biography of your main character.
   

Journal #26 3/14/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.

Shirley Chisolm

Journal #25 3/13/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

Clare Boothe Luce

Journal #24 3/9/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Betty Friedan

Journal #23 3/8/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Margaret Thatcher

Playwright's Project

12^th Grade Playwright’s Project

You will be creating a play in which the conflict is based on an ECONOMIC issue that a young adult would face upon leaving high school and entering the work force, college, or the military. Possible scenarios include:

· You have received a “no-strings” financial scholarship.

· You are weighing the implications of joining the armed services.

· You get your first credit card.

· You travel to a third-world nation with a severely depressed economy.

· You have to make real choices concerning financial “wants” and “needs”.

· You find out that a pregnancy is affecting your immediate future.

· You are searching for an apartment and don’t have the finances to afford anything in a nice neighborhood.

· You are embroiled in “roommate conflicts,” such as inability to pay rent or bills.

· You are stuck working a job that you hate but need the $ it provides.

· You have to go to work while other friends are out having a good time.

· You have purchased a car and are experiencing financial woes because of it (i.e. car payments, insurance, gasoline, repairs)

REMEMBER THAT THESE ECONOMIC SITUATIONS ARE THE SPRINGBOARD FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT.

Journal #22 3/7/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Marian Wright Edelman

Classwork for Monday, 3/6/06

Now that you have a topic, thesis statement, and some research, you will begin to put this research together into an outline or concept map.

1. This outline template should help you focus your energies.
2. Use the outline template as a guide to transfer your research into an Inspiration concept map.
3. Make sure that your thesis statement is inside the "Main Idea" bubble.
4. Your "Subtopics" will go in the next series of bubbles.
5. Your "Points" will go in the next series of bubbles.
6. You "Supporting Evidence" will go into your 4th level of bubbles.

Journal #21 3/6/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

Susan B. Anthony

Journal # 20 3/3/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Journal # 19 3/2/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Maya Angelou

MLA Quiz

• Download the QUIZ.
• This is an open note quiz.
  
• Please type your answers into the document
• Due at the end of the period.
  

Journal # 18 3/1/06

Read the following quote and respond by either analyzing what is being said or reflecting personally through your own experience. Please answer with three or more sentences.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Martina Navratilova