Media Smarts
Scripting a Crime Drama
Develop novice script-writers. Small groups sift through a sample script, noting any script-writing conventions to share with the whole class. Using these conventions and plot structures, these groups compose a script for a 10-minute...
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Screenwriting
Who knows? You may inspire the next George Lucas or Steven Spielberg with a script writing presentation that provides some basic tips. Young film makers begin by reading scripts for movies they know, scripts for movies they don't know,...
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Shakespeare 2000
Comparing the more modern film Ten Things I Hate About You to The Taming of the Shrew leads to an understanding of how Shakespearean plots can be applied to modern-day situations and characters. As a culminating activity, groups select a...
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The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe: Literature and Theater
Students read and discuss the literary elements of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis. They explore the elements of dramatic performance and create a TV news program based on life in Narnia. They videotape their...
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Weather Forecast
Students forecast the weather. For this weather lesson, students are assigned a day to give the weather forecast. Students write a script and video their weather forecast.
Learning Station
Writing Playscripts
In this writing worksheet, students read a short description of a play script. Then, students read a fable and write a play script of the fable.
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Comparing Land Views of Different Cultures
Students research various legends and write a script based on that legend. In this cultural awareness lesson, students read the Native American legend telling of the origin of the earth. Students analyze how the concepts in the legend...
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Scriptwriting Skill Module
Young scholars identify and analyze conflicts in plots. In this conflict lesson students recall stories, novels and movies they've read or seen and discuss the conflicts contained therein. They then complete some written exercises to...
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Technical Instructions
Students format scripts using technical instructions. In this technical instructions lesson, students define three parts of a TV script and use a common professional format to write their scripts. Students discuss the three basic parts...
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So You Want to Be a TV Reporter!
Students work in pairs to interview each other. They identify interviewing skills and methods, conduct a preliminary interview, develop a working script from the notes and participate in a final interview for the camera.
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Australia: Scriptwriting
Students write a script of a play using Freytag's Pyramid on plot. In this scriptwriting lesson, students read a play and participate in a lecture/discussion about the main components of a play and the basis of drama. Students relate...
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Daily Actings
Students view clips of Anna Deavere Smith's work. They interview people on video or audiotape to learn their lines, dialect, and syntax to assist them in theater. They create a play which emulates the people in which they interviewed.
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Scriptwriting With A Wiki
Learners use a website to add and edit content. They work together to create a one-act play. They view their creation to end the lesson.
National Arts Centre (Canada)
Arts Alive: English Theatre
ArtsAlive provides a detailed look into world of professional theatre. Thematically organized content walks through all the processes involved in "transforming a play from the page to the stage," including playwriting, directing, acting,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
Students begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. They explore background information about the Mercury Theatre production of the "War of the...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Theater
Take a one-minute quick tour through the history of theater. View a theatrical performance and be a theater critic. Visit the theater and learn about makeup, sound, lighting, costumes and visit the scene shop to learn about scenery...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Broadcast News Writing Basics
Sentence structure and choice of words must be accessible to the ear. Conversational style, storytelling, accuracy and simplicity are hallmarks of good broadcast news writing. See sample problems and solutions for news writing.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Page to Stage
Using the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, source material for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," lesson plan teaches students to analyze the structure of a play's text in a way that will give them a clearer understanding of how to perform...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Put 'Em on a Talk Show
In this lesson, students will write a script for a talk show, based on character traits from fairy tale stories. Scripts will be rehearsed, costumed, and performed in front of the class.
Other
Kids Vid:scripting
A simplified description of video scriptwriting for elementary school kids with a free storyboard program added.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Beginning Reporting
Research news writing skills for reporters at this website. Discover what it takes to write well organized news-worthy stories.
Media College
Media College: How to Write a News Story
The process in writing TV news stories is analyzed in this Media College site. Writing press releases and what makes a story newsworthy are a added bonus to the viewer.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Writing a Script for Radio or Tv/film
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this site goes over several tips involved in writing a a script. The information includes plot, radio script, sound effects, and TV or film script.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students use photos that relate to a social studies concept (i.e., country of study, historical person, natural disaster, geographical landmark, religion, or governmental strife) as a springboard to write a...