{"id":2591,"date":"2017-05-11T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2017-05-11T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T17:21:24","slug":"playwriting-dialogue-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2591","title":{"rendered":"Playwriting: Dialogue Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in day four of converting our feature articles to short plays. Today I wanted them to start thinking about dialogue and how it fits the conflict of their play. I had them restate the conflict (I&#8217;ve done some version of this every day this week) and then we passed each other&#8217;s papers to write out lines that someone who was responding in a happy, sad, angry, or scared way might say.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidelinecast\/34596835255\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"Untitled\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4171\/34596835255_56bfaa6945.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidelinecast\/34596835325\/in\/datetaken\/\" title=\"Untitled\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4157\/34596835325_4fec24e4f0.jpg?resize=474%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We then had students work in groups of two and use these sheets to stage a scene.  Each time they used a line from the page they had to make a specific gesture (waving the paper) to show that it was a line from the paper.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in day four of converting our feature articles to short plays. Today I wanted them to start thinking about dialogue and how it fits the conflict of their play. I had them restate the conflict (I&#8217;ve done some version of this every day this week) and then we passed each other&#8217;s papers to write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playwriting: Dialogue Drill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2016_2017"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-FN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}