Knowledge and Skills Statement
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
Demonstrated Proficiency of ELA.8.8.C
Provide students with a play to read and analyze. Ask students to share the significance of the different acts and scenes. Examples may include propelling the story forward, unveiling a crisis, or providing a visual structure.
Further Explanation
This SE requires students to understand that, much like a novel’s use of paragraphs or chapters to group a plot’s related moments of action, dramas rely on acts and scenes to signal the advancement of plot from exposition to conclusion. Students also understand that these distinct moments of plot development that are important to the story overall.