Happy New Year! Projects, Projects, Projects!

Okay. So we're all another year older. I hope you all had a relaxing and restful break.

Today, please complete any of the following:

A. Please continue to write your 10-minute play script, or your one-act play script, or your full length play script. When you are done with these first drafts, please proofread, print, and turn in. These projects are due Jan. 24.

B. Your Charles Busch's play critique should be complete. If it is not, get going on that and finish today. We started this at the end of November. Please print and turn in if you have not yet done so.

C. Please work on completing The Piano Lesson critique. You may watch any of the video clips of August Wilson's plays from the post below. There are samples of Wilson's staged plays and a film clip, along with interviews.

D. Please read Fences by August Wilson. Try to complete this play by Wednesday. There will be a quiz on it Wednesday, so please complete it, if you haven't done so already. You should know the basic plot points, characters, the protagonist's dark moment, the premise, and consider what fences symbolize in the play. There are clips from Wilson's stage play and interviews with Denzel Washington on the post below. Please take some time today and watch.

Lastly: Contests!

Gannon, Geva, Lelia Tupper, Rochester AIDS Coalition, Scholastic Writing Awards, and Sokol contests are in. In every case, you have work that COULD be submitted with excellent chances of winning. Instructions and details about each contest are on the front bookcase. You may work on entering these contests for extra credit. Feel free to get Ms. Gamzon or my opinion or help with submitted work. We'd be happy to help you. All you need to do is ask.

When you have submitted, please follow the contest guidelines specifically and carefully. You may leave your submissions in the folders on the front bookcase.