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ACTIVITY 2
Writing a Script as a Class
WRITING PROMPT: Work with the class to write a modern version of the script excerpt from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Be sure to include:
• Characterization, relationships, and setting conveyed through dialogue and/
or narration
• A plot developed through exposition, conflict, complications, and resolution
• Stage directions and dialogue cues providing instructions for tone, blocking,
and gestures
• Audience engagement strategies, such as diction and imagery that create a
mood and convey humor
Refer to the Scoring Guide for this writing task at the end of this workshop to help you understand where to focus your attention and efforts.
Prewriting
1. Work with other students and resources to finalize definitions of the literary terms from Activity 1. Then reread the script excerpt from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and complete the chart that starts below in order to define and identify techniques for character, setting and plot development, as well as cues for tone, blocking, and gestures that you can apply to your class-constructed script.
Term
Definition
the development of a character through appearance, words, thoughts, the reactions of others, or narration
Examples
characterization
Character and Setting
character relationships
the interactions between characters
dialogue
words that characters say out loud; in a script, it appears without quotation marks after the character’s name and a colon
setting
where and when the story takes place
“And though she be but little, she be fierce”
“Although I hate her, I’ll not harm her so”
“Do you not jest?”
“I told him of your stealth unto this wood”
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