Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Day 2

Lab:

By the end of our lab, you should have completed your 20 answers and the sentence about your play draft. Turn a copy of this in for participation credit.

The next step is to use these answers to craft your chosen play and revise it with these answers in mind. Remember to revise as well to develop characterization.

Revise your play draft on your own. It will be due Monday, Nov. 20. Aim to cut, revise, proofread, correct, and otherwise strengthen your first draft. Feel free to add or cut as necessary. Use your answers to the questions to focus and guide you.

If you did not complete your reading of Act 1 of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, please do so during the lab if you are done with your 20 answers. 

By the way, the reference to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is an academic joke. Read about Virginia Woolf here. Then watch the short Disney film: The Three Little Pigs (1933)

CLASSROOM: Please continue watching the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. We may move a little into Act II in the film. We'll finish the film on Monday.

HOMEWORK: Read Acts II & III -- notice how Albee uses monologues, conflict, objectives, and really fine dialogue writing to make this a great & memorable play that actors and audiences can sink their teeth into. 

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