Monday June 8th

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Monday June 8th

• Unit 6 Lesson 2

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Class Outline

• Read for 15 minutes, until 825. Reading Log 6
  due Thursday June 18th
• Review last days lesson
• Parts of a Radio Drama
• Write one scene with dialogue and basic sound
  effects based on a fable

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Last Thursdays Lesson

• What is Radio Drama a play without visual
  elements
• What are the disadvantages and how could they be
  overcome?
• What are the advantages?

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Parts of a Radio Drama

• Plot
• Character
• Dialogue

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Plot

• The plot grows from the conflict that arises when
  two forces in a play come into opposition.
• In the fable The Tortoise and the Hare the plot
  grows when the two characters come into
  opposition.
• In a disaster movie the plot grows when a
  community comes into opposition with a force of
  nature.
• In Star Wars the plot grows when the forces of
  good and evil come into opposition.
• Plot is often described as a series of actions
  and consequences.

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Characters

• Characters are the people in a drama.
• The main characters are defined, not by their
  physical descriptions of characteristics, but
  rather by what they do and say.
• What does the character do and say in response to
  complications in the play? What choices does the
  character make and how do those choices influence
  the characters relationships with other
  characters and, ultimately, the outcome of the
  play?
• Think of the tortoise and the hare. What does
  the hare do that causes him to lose the race?
  This is more reflective of the hares character
  than the way he looks or talks. (Besides, in
  radio drama looks are irrelevant!)

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Dialogue

• Dialogue is what the characters say.
• Dialogue and conversation are not the same thing.
• In a drama people do not just talk for the sake
  of talking. They say what the writer needs them
  to say to establish character and move the plot
  forward.
• Plays do not duplicate real life. They take
  ideas from real life and then mold them to suit
  the writers dramatic purpose.
• Dialogue in a play might be realistic and sound
  like real-life talking, but it is carefully
  planned by the writer.

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Activity

• Divide into small groups of 3 or 4.
• Each group take a simple existing story such as a
  fable and write one scene in the story as a radio
  drama.
• Different groups might choose different scenes.
• At the end of class, read aloud your scenes,
  including make-shift sound effects.
• Group discussion, discuss the plot, characters
  and dialogue in your scenes.