Skills

a story that is acted out (through words and actions) in front of an audience.

• drama
• setting
• theme
• stage directions

the person who wrote the play.

• cast of characters
• playwright
• drama
• act

the lines of text the characters speak in the play; the character’s names appear before the lines they speak

• cast of characters
• dialogue
• theme
• scene

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

tells the actors where to go on stage (stage right or left), how to move,  how to say their lines, tells them how to feel and think.  (Always found in parenthesis)

• script
• stage directions
• dialogue
• drama

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

the form that a play is written in; it contains the list of characters, the lines the characters say, and the stage directions.

• drama
• dialogue
• stage directions
• script

The characters in a play

• cast of characters

• script

• play

• animals

A section of uninterrupted action in the act of a drama

• stage directions

• script

• act

• scene

Usually in italics inside of (parenthesis) or [brackets] they tell the characters how to act or move and describe the set

• directions

• stage directions

• playwright

• act

"Exit stage left"...this is an example of

• lines
• stage directions
• cast of characters
• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

what the actors wear

• props
• costumes
• setting
• scene

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D