Last week of class before a much needed two week spring break. It would start on a red day, which means I have two white days and my black day is on the early release day. I guess there could be worse tragedies in life. The pacing of my classes actually worked out better than I could have planned it, and I realized I was aided by a plethora of snow days, so I'll have to adapt this schedule for next year to mimic where we end up around break time.
In English 12, I gave my classes a work day in the lab to do the writing part of their projects, which are due Friday. They have had three weeks since this was assigned, but since many don't have computer access outside of school, I wanted to give them a day in the lab to write. I again informed them that short of death, they had no excuses to not turn in their projects on Friday.
In creative writing, we continued to discuss character development and how to reveal a character to a reader. Today, we discussed revealing a character through image and voice or dialogue. For dialogue, I showed them, literally from a script, some dialogue from Lucky Number Slevin. We read a scene that gives us a great picture of the character, how he acts, and his attitudes just through his dialogue. I can't show this in class because it is a little naughty, but I think them reading the dialogue instead of seeing the scene actually drives the point home anyway.
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