“They are going to put me in the Movies”
Project overview
This project will allow students to express themselves in a creative way on many different levels. For example, not only will they be expected to write a one act screen play, but also, they will be expected to act out their creations. One of the main goals of the project is to incorporate one of the character traits that has been covered so far into a creative skit.
Essential Questions
How can we challenge ourselves to use figurative language, story and character building, active voice, slang, and grammatically correct sentences to create a story that can be transmitted into a skit?
How can we use our creative writing skills to create a correctly formatted skit?
Student Objectives
Students will be able to write a script that is correctly formatted and fluid.
Students will be able to incorporate a character trait into their creative writing.
Script Requirements
Script will be properly formatted like the examples presented by the teacher.
Script will incorporate one of the character traits and correctly use it.
Everyone in each person’s group will have an active participatory rule in the project.
Students will be able to work together cooperatively in order to reach a common goal.
Benchmarks
Outline of the story with rising action, climax, and falling action
Character roles for each group member.
Rough Draft of the script.
Final Product
Will have five pages of script making a skit last approximately five minutes long. Each person in the group will be included. Each person will have memorized his or her part in the script.
Grading Breakdown
Outline-10 points
Character Roles-10 points
Final Written Product-40 points
Exhibition
Final products will be shared with a selected lower grade classes at Santa Rosa Academy.
