5 min play lesson for August Osage County
Jaclyn Marta
Independent Study
August Osage County
Introduction
- August Osage County presents to us a small snippet of life in a family of full of fleshed out and creative characters. Almost any of these characters could support their own play. Students will have to write a short scene from a play about one of the characters in the play
Standard
- Construct a scenario with a definite beginning, middle, and ending.
Introduction ( to be done after reading play) 10 min
- get students feelings on play
- what did they like/ not like
- who were their favorite characters? least favorite?
- what stuck out most to them?
- introduce assignment to them
- they are going to have to write a 5 min scene between 2 characters from play that is not play but mentioned
- hiring of Jonna by Beverly
- Karen and Steve get engaged
- Ivy and Little Charles realize they like one another
- Barbara and Bill separate
- Barbara leaves home and says goodbye to Violet
- Another of their choosing, but needs to be approved by instructor
- will work with a partner and then present scene with partner
Brainstorming 30 min
- students will pair up with one other student of choosing
- students will discuss what characters interest them the most/ feel they understand the best
- students will begin process of figuring out stages/ preliminary writing
- teacher will walk around class monitoring behavior and helping students who need help
- by the end of class, students need to have chosen what scene they will write about
Construct a scenario with a definite beginning, middle, and ending.
- Students are taking characters already created by Tracy Letts and writing a short play with them. This play tells a specific moment of these characters life and, if they chose the prompts provided, will clearly have a beginning, middle, and end. This project will be worked over a variety of class periods to help scaffold work and prepare students for performance of scene.
Independent Study
August Osage County
Introduction
- August Osage County presents to us a small snippet of life in a family of full of fleshed out and creative characters. Almost any of these characters could support their own play. Students will have to write a short scene from a play about one of the characters in the play
Standard
- Construct a scenario with a definite beginning, middle, and ending.
Introduction ( to be done after reading play) 10 min
- get students feelings on play
- what did they like/ not like
- who were their favorite characters? least favorite?
- what stuck out most to them?
- introduce assignment to them
- they are going to have to write a 5 min scene between 2 characters from play that is not play but mentioned
- hiring of Jonna by Beverly
- Karen and Steve get engaged
- Ivy and Little Charles realize they like one another
- Barbara and Bill separate
- Barbara leaves home and says goodbye to Violet
- Another of their choosing, but needs to be approved by instructor
- will work with a partner and then present scene with partner
Brainstorming 30 min
- students will pair up with one other student of choosing
- students will discuss what characters interest them the most/ feel they understand the best
- students will begin process of figuring out stages/ preliminary writing
- teacher will walk around class monitoring behavior and helping students who need help
- by the end of class, students need to have chosen what scene they will write about
Construct a scenario with a definite beginning, middle, and ending.
- Students are taking characters already created by Tracy Letts and writing a short play with them. This play tells a specific moment of these characters life and, if they chose the prompts provided, will clearly have a beginning, middle, and end. This project will be worked over a variety of class periods to help scaffold work and prepare students for performance of scene.