ALTScr3

Day One

Procedures

Choose any short story from a current anthology.
Read it orally or silently, round robin style or dictatorial teacher style.
Discuss it.
Have students answer any textbook questions and perform any activities in the textbook for greater understanding of the story.
Discuss answers
Journal: Have students use the same anthology to find models of plays for punctuation, capitalization and spacing style.
Use textbook model to write a play script based on three or more pages of text.
Divide into random groups of five.
Have groups select a presenter and a recorder.
Each group member will take turns reading his or her script to the others
The group as a whole will select the best script to present to the large group (Only five presenters will emerge in the end.)
Teacher will circulate around the room carefully listening to scripts as they are being read.
Back to large group
Five chosen presenters will read their scripts as others provide a note-taking audience.
Recorder will accompany presenter to podium to discuss how group came to decision on the one script. (Reflection and verbalization)

The whole class will then vote on one script.

Day Two

Copies of the chosen script will be handed out to all class members
Class will vote on a director, a producer, and a casting director who have presented their capabilities to the class in the form of a political speaker.
Director, producer, and videographer, casting director, and author of chosen script will cast the play from students who have indicated on the board which character they are interested in playing.
Cast will be posted
Homework: Actors should be instructed to have their lines memorized by Day Three. They are usually motivated and excited enough to achieve this task. Also, actors should bring from home a permission slip which grants authority for make up.
Homework: Videographer and Scenery committees should phone tree to plan
action for the next day
Homework: Costume Committee members should phone tree, also.