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Writing Workshop 9 (continued)
Ideas
Peer Review
4. You will evaluate and provide feedback for another group’s script, based on criteria from the Scoring Guide. Another group will review the work your group has done. Use the Revision Checklist that follows to guide your peer review.
Script Revision Checklist
• Does the script have a title?
• Does the script convey an interesting story based on the
scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
• Are the characters complex and believable?
• Can you understand the characters’ relationships? • Is the setting conveyed clearly through dialogue or
narration?
• Does the script use effective dialogue?
• Does any narration used seem needed to tell the story?
• Does the script have a beginning, middle, and end?
• Does the script have a clear conflict? What is it?
• Does the script provide sufficient exposition or background
information?
• Does the script include complications that build toward a
climax or turning point?
• Does the script include a resolution?
• Does the script use enough dialogue cues or stage directions that you can visualize the performance?
• Are there enough cues for actors to understand the intended tone, blocking, and gestures for their lines?
• What kind of mood does the script create?
• What techniques, such as diction or imagery, create
the mood?
• Does the script follow script conventions?
• Is figurative language used to engage the audience and
convey humor?
Structure
Use of Language
Revising/Editing
5. After rereading your group’s draft, discuss these strategies for revision: Adding: How can we communicate our tone and meaning more effectively
by using script conventions?
Consider adding figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and
hyperbole.
Rearranging: What revisions should be made to rearrange the sequence
of events so that our complications build toward a climax and resolution?
Deleting: Are there any lines of dialogue or narration that would distract or fail to engage our audience?
Editing: Are there mistakes in conventions that should be corrected? 14 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 8
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