Introduction
Think about your day. What time did your alarm go off this morning? What did you do first? Next? Who was the first person you saw when you got to school this morning? Is this person important to you? Do you have anything exciting planned for this afternoon? Do you have work? Rehearsal? A game? What time do you plan to go to bed tonight?
Are you as disgruntled waking up as this girl?
These simple questions take you through the day just like they take a character through a play! A playwright answers these questions as he develops the story he is trying to tell. In this lesson, you will learn about how to develop a plot structure.
Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
- Identify and describe plot structure, including exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Essential Questions
- What are the many processes involved in the development of devised or scripted drama/theatre works?
- Why must a director have a strong understanding of the legal and ethical limitations of copyrights and how these are attained?
Enduring Understandings
- Artists create devised or scripted drama/theatre work through many processes and performance of these materials requires a strong understanding of the legal and ethical limitations.
The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Theatre Proficient standards: 23.
