English Language Arts and Reading.8.8.C

The student is expected to

analyze how playwrights develop dramatic action through the use of acts and scenes;

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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.

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.

one of the main divisions of a play An act may consist of several scenes and can run for brief or long periods of time in a performance.
Similar to 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 through conclusion. The audience of a drama is meant to understand that a scene or act provides distinct moments of plot development that are important to the overall story.
plot action that involves conflict, tension, suspense, uncertainty, and/or fear to entice audience
a subdivision of an act in a play with continuous action in the same setting