KRISTA D. PRICE

Important topics/terms are in RED.

Google Classroom assignments are in BLUE.

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If ABSENT you are REQUIRED to read / understand / do all activities posted for that day, even if it's not an "assignment". 

Ms. Price provides ALL learning for absent students in a self-directed format below.

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DAY 1: Read a Play (Exposition / Conflict / Build)

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1.) Reviewed  the "world of the play" that we are reading in class (Yonkers, New York, 1942) and the character relationships established in the play's exposition.

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2.) Learned about Freytag's Pyramid:  conflict & build 

• Conflict = the first "significant event" in a story that "unlocks the plot"  (there will be MANY conflicts in most stories, but the first significant one typically is introduced as the main conflict that needs to be resolved before the story ends

• Build = the "rising action" of the play (in theatre, this rising action in a scene or story is called "build")

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3.) Read Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon together as a class.  If absent you MUST keep up with the reading of this play. (see below) 

Click the links below to read (in order) anything you've missed in class. 

• (already read) Act I, Scene1, pgs 3-21 Exposition = the beginning of the play where we learn about the characters and their relationship to eachother

  • Act I, Scene 1, pgs 21-26 Conflict = the moment that "unlocks" the plot/rising action of the play.  The first big conflict often drives the storyline of the play.

  • Act I, Scene 1 - pgs 26-39 Build = the "rising action" in the story (in theatre it's called "build")

  • Act I, Scene 2-4, pgs 40-63 (Build)  - Today we read through Act I, Scene 3. - Read to that point - through page 50 -  if absent (start at "Conflict" above).

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DAY 2:  Read a Play (Build) 

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1.) Reviewed:  Plot terms & definitions (inciting incident, exposition, conflict, build, crisis, climax, denouement)

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2.) Read the play Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon.  If absent, you MUST read what we read in class.

Click the links below for each day's reading. 

• Act I, Scene 2-4, pgs 40-63 (Build)  - Today we started on pg 51. 

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DAY 3:  Read a Play (Crisis, Climax, Denouement)

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1.) Discussed the question:  How does an actor know how to "play" a character from a script? 

• There are 3 main ways we learn about our characters from a script:

  • What the playwright tells us about our character (Example:  ​"she's as warm and congenial as she is emotionally arrested")

  • What other characters say about our character (Example:  "She'd come out of that door with a limp and a cane and look like she was going to kill you.")

  • What a character says about him/herself (Example:  "Sometimes I get so confused I think I should carry an alarm clock")

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2.) Read the play Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon.  If absent, you MUST read what we read in class.

Click the links below for each day's reading. 

• Act II, Scene 1-2, pgs 64-95 (Build)  - Today we read through page 95

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