Preparing your projects

Monday your play scripts are due.

Before you turn in your scripts, please make sure to do and check the following:

1. Correct your punctuation and grammar. Not only spell checking, but make sure your lines make sense grammatically. Use end punctuation (periods, question marks, em-dashes, exclamation points, etc.) where appropriate. It is a good thing to read your script out loud to catch many of these errors.

2. Shorten long lines for the ease of performing. Actors find shorter lines easier to memorize and say than longer, complex sentences. Short lines also speed the action of the play along (whereas long lines slow down the action).

3. Check your playwriting format. By now, you should know how to correctly format your scripts.

4. The best plays have an interesting and compelling theme: they say something important about life and what it means to be a human being. Consider your message by the end of the play. What is the audience supposed to take from this experience?

HOMEWORK: Check out the review for your "final exam" on Monday. You should study those important terms and recall the plays we've read and be able to match a playwright with the play they wrote.

If you are behind in your writing, please catch up and be ready to complete your projects so that you can turn them in on Monday. Remember that you will also have to take a test on Monday.

Use your time in lab effectively to manage your work.