ACT ATTACK!

Christmas Production

Act Attack!

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

To use the features of

a play script

MY DILEMMA

My drama group Act Attack have

chosen me to write the script for our

Christmas production this year! Luckily I

have you to help me!?

After all you did such a good job with

all our other dilemmas!

RON AND DON

TEDDY’S HOLIDAY

FROGS ON A LOG

CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION

Your Task:

Write the opening scene of the

Little Red Riding Hood script for

Act Attack’s Christmas production.

WHAT DO WE NEED TO INCLUDE?

All week we have been learning about

the features of Play Scripts. Can you

remember all of them?

In pairs write all of the features of a

play script on your whiteboards.

DID YOU GET THEM ALL?

On your desks are envelopes, there is one for each

pair.

Open up your envelope to find all of the features.

Match the features in the envelope to the ones on

your whiteboard.

There are merit points available for each one you

match up!

OUR SUCCESS CRITERIA

The features that you have come up

with are all part of our Success

Criteria.

So there are no excuses for not

including them all!

After all you told me what they are!

CONTENT/STRUCTURE

Include the name of the character in the margin.

Start each speaker on a new line.

No need for speech marks

Use speech to move on the story

Some of us will be including stage directions for

speech and actions too.

LANGUAGE

Write in first person

Use present tense

If you are using stage directions you also need:

Speech verbs

Powerful verbs for actions

Adverbs to describe the action

PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING

Use colons

Use brackets for stage directions

Remember the ae, ai, ay spelling

pattern we have learned this week.

USING YOUR CARDS…

I am going to show you some of the attempts

form previous years.

They weren’t very good!

Can you spot what they have forgotten?

Talk to your partner and choose the card with

the feature that you think is missing.

CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION

Your Task:

Write the opening scene of the

Little Red Riding Hood script for

Act Attack’s Christmas production.

TELLING THE STORY THROUGH

SPEECH

Remember, in a play script we

use the speech to move the

story along unlike in a story

where we use narrative.

How will the audience know

what is going on?

MUM AND RED

Mum will tell Red where to go and how

to get there.

What will the audience learn from this

conversation?

Where does Red need to go?

How will she get there?

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD!

Red’s Grandma is not very well so

mum asks her to take a basket of

goodies to make her feel better. Red

needs to go through the woods to get to

grandma’s, she has never been through

the woods alone before! Mum reminds

Red how important it is to stay on the

path!

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

Red goes through the woods to

grandma’s, she spots a short cut

that mum normally takes, but it

means going off of the path! Should

she go?

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

Red decides to use the short cut, on

the way she bumps into a scary wolf!

He asks her where she is going, he

doesn’t seem to bad really! She

explains that she is going to Grandma’s

house and mustn’t stop or talk to

anyone! The wolf has an evil plan!

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

Red finally gets to grandma’s house.

The door is already open so she walks

in. Grandma looks different. Maybe she

is more ill than she first thought?! Red

talks to Grandma for a while but she

sounds very odd.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

The wolf reveals that he is in fact

dressed up as Grandma! He has eaten

Grandma and tries to eat Red too!

Luckily a wood cutter hears the noise

and comes to save Red! He kills the evil

wolf and saves Red!

IN PAIRS…

Think about the beginning of the story

as we have just looked at it.

How would you start the conversation

between Red and her mum?

Mum will be the first speaker in our

play.

CONTENT/STRUCTURE

Include the name of the character in the margin.

Start each speaker on a new line.

No need for speech marks

Use speech to move on the story

Some of us will be including stage directions for

speech and actions too.

CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION

Your Task:

Write the opening scene of the

Little Red Riding Hood script for

Act Attack’s Christmas production.

CONTENT/STRUCTURE

Include the name of the character in the margin.

Start each speaker on a new line.

No need for speech marks

Use speech to move on the story

Some of us will be including stage directions for

speech and actions too.

LANGUAGE

Write in first person

Use present tense

If you are using stage directions you also need

Speech verbs

Powerful verbs for actions

Adverbs to describe the action

PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING

Use colons

Use brackets for stage directions

Remember the ae, ai, ay spelling

pattern we have learned this week.

ACT ATTACK ASSESSMENT!

Remember that you are writing a

conversation.

Does it flow like a conversation?

Put your pencils down and read through

what you have so far.

Would it flow as a conversation?Act

Attack!

ACT ATTACK ASSESSMENT!

We are going to share a couple of

ideas.

Do you think Act Attack w ill like them

so far?

Why?

What could we do to improve them

further?

Act Attack!

ACT ATTACK ASSESSMENT!

They have sent me another quick

reminder!

Act Attack want to make sure that you

are using all of the SC because if the

features aren't there, then the actors

will get very confused!

So keep looking back over your SC!

Act Attack!

DRESS REHEARSAL!

We have had lots of chances for Act Attack to

check what we are doing but now it’s our turn!

In pairs I would like you to read each others script

out loud as if you were rehearsing for the play.

When reading your own script you will play Red

and when reading your partner’s you will read as

mum.

EDITING!

Use this opportunity to edit any parts

that don’t flow as well as you

hoped ;don’t make sense or are

repeated or missing.

Keep your pencil in your hand as you

read through your scene so that you

can change, edit and adapt as you read.

CURTAIN CALL

Some children will get the

chance to act out their scenes

to the whole class.

If you do not get the

opportunity today then you will

get the chance to read out

another scene that you write

next week.

PRODUCTION REVIEW

We are going to review the opening

scenes we have seen.

Tell me 1 good thing and one

improvement.

Think about using constructive

language.

Tell them why and how