Quick Drama Review

What is drama?

• fiction

• a piece of writing meant to be acted out for an audience with the same story elements as a fiction story. Also called a play

• poetry

• literary nonfiction

What are the parts of plot?

• linear and nonlinear

• the sequence of events in a story

• exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, conclusion

• cast of characters, script, act

What was the name of the play we read in class yesterday?

• Mary's Lost Ring

• Mexican White Boy

• Scene 3

• Hugo

What is dialogue?

• What the characters say

• How the characters act

• one scene

• more than one scene

What do the stage directions do?

• They follow the plot.

• They tell the characters what to do and where to go.

• Tell the characters what to say

• They are for the director of the play

What are scenes?

• smaller parts of an act

• the stage

• the classroom

• the acts in a play

What is author's purpose?

• To show us a play

• To make us want to act

• To make us read

• The reason why an author writes and why the author does certain things.

What was Hugo's problem in the drama?

• He wanted the automaton to work because he missed his dad.

• He didn't want to go to the orphanage.

• He was a thief.

• His Uncle Claude came and took him in.

What was the climax, or the change in the play?

• Hugo's uncle disappearing.

• Hugo seeing the key around Isabelle's neck.

• When Hugo and Isabelle see that the automaton draws a picture and signs Georges Melies' name.

• Hugo stealing from the top shop ran by Georges Melies

I am ready to add more knowledge to my prior knowledge of drama!

• Let's Go!!!!!

• Yes Ma'am!

• I Can! I Must! I Will!

• Of course!