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BELL RINGERMake a mind map. Take a theme you saw in yesterday’s show, and brainstorm in your map about all the ways that theme was developed—in song, dance, jokes, characters, set, or costume. Song

Dance

Character

jokes

set

theme

ENC 1102Lesson Goal:Students will brainstorm, draft,

revise, and edit theme analysis essays on a drama.

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Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.Your assignment is to write a review

of the show you have just seen, “Hairspray.” You are writing to publish in EITHER a MHS school newspaper, OR in the Jackson County Floridan. A good analysis will take into consideration who your audience is. Who reads these publications? What do you think their likely reaction will be to this performance? Why?

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.Create a review based on theme. You

will be arguing that this performance IS or IS not worth seeing, and your main reason will be theme.◦Does this mean that acting, singing,

dancing, dialogue, set, lights, and sound are NOT important? Of course not. Those are all part of the show, and part of your review. But your concentration will be on how all of those things helped bring a MESSAGE to the audience.

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.Come up with a snappy intro. You

know, the old “grabber” thing. Your intro should include when, where, and with whom you say the show, the title of the show, and who put it on.

At some point, the director’s name should be in the review. You might also include choreographers, actors, technicians, and musicians.

How You Might Structure Your Paper:

I. Intro◦ Include when, where, and what show you saw◦ Include your thesis—why your audience should or should not see

the show, theme based

II-III. Body paragraphs. ◦ Discussion of a theme in the show, with support from dialogue,

action, lyrics, set, etc.

IV. Conclusion◦ Restate your thesis, tell when the show runs and how to

get tickets (box office or on line)

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.An angle to take MIGHT be all the

MHS students and alumni involved in the show. Think about how that could grab a reader, or help the reader invest in the show.

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.It is okay to develop your own

personal voice in this essay. You may use the words “I” and “you” when you are specifically talking about your reaction or how speaking directly to your reader. Talking about your own reactions, emotions, and responses to the show is appropriate.

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.How to Organize: Model 1

Theme: Racial

Tension of the 60s

I. School Culture

2. Media/televi

sion3. Inter-

racial Dating

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.How to Organize: Model 1

Theme: Racial

Tension, 1960s

1. Acting 2. Song and Dance

3. Set and Tech


Theme: Social

Darwinism

1. Adults: Edna v. Velma

2. School Kids:Tracy v. Amber

3. Friendship Overcomes:Seaweed &

Link

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.Use songs and dialogue lines to

support your statements.Feel free to call on American HistoryIf you talked with actors/crew before

or after the show and they had anything of significance to say, use it!

Use your programs for reference.Tomorrow, I will have lyrics on the

common drive.

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.Thesis Statement:

The effective thesis statement, and therefore, the effective thematic review, will tie the past to the present. For example, if you are discussing inter-racial dating, your thesis might make the claim that watching the struggles of Penny and Seaweed does/does not look different from the struggles of an inter-racial couple today, in Jackson County, Florida.


P. S. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we could all just sing a little song, step a little dance, and have all our society’s issues disappear while we shake it and declare, “you can’t stop the beat?” And wouldn’t it be nice if even the bad guys like Amber and Velma ended up happily joining in at the end? And wouldn’t it be nice if girls like Tracy really COULD get on the Corny Collins Show? Or get the guy? And if we could all just get along?


Do you think we are any closer to curing prejudice today than we were in the 1960s? And is the vision presented in HAIRSPRAY a real possibility, or is the happy ending a big lie?

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.critique throughout the reviewsupport your opinions with examplespoint out strengths as well as weaknesses compare and contrast the work being

reviewed with works readers may be familiar with and with other works of the author.

don’t reveal too much of a play’s or movie’s plot; a review is not a synopsis, nor do you want to give away too much

begin a review with an opiniongive credit to work, talent and skill

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.sarcasm, satire and ridicule are a

consideration when you deem a work a travesty, a rip-off or really, really awful

don’t be mean; even a well-deserved panning must not be mean-spirited

even something not very good may require a kind or tender review – yet, still, an honest one

your readers are your main responsibility; but you must be fair to those you write about

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.write conversationally; always have your

audience in mind; you must hold themrecreate the experience of a live concert

for the reader who wasn’t there, and have the reader who was there, think, “Yes, that’s what it was like!”

don’t let your prejudices influence your review

if you are ambivalent, say so; ambivalence is ever-present in taste and opinion

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.write concisely, but write richlydevelop and use a broad vocabularyuse allusions, similes, and other literary

techniquesexperiment with writing stylesmix colloquial, informal and formal

language; slang, toomake humor a part of your styledon’t write to impressbe informative; be persuasive; be

interesting; be engaging; be readable

Lesson Goal: Students will brainstorm, draft, edit, and revise theme analysis essays on a drama.do your homework; produce

knowledgeable reviewsadd to your readers’ knowledge,

appreciation and understandingcare deeply about standards and quality

in the artsknow your field; become literate in all the

arts; learn a lot; be passionate about your interest ineld; become literate in all the arts; learn a lot; be passionate about your interest in, and love for, the arts

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