Dramatizing the Nose Grid
Our class needs to form 4-8 drama groups of 7-8 students
for the day. Each group will develop a
play script from a sample of the chapter, “The Nose Grid.” Your group will then act out your section of
the chapter for the entire class. The
sections link together in order, and the starting and ending lines overlap to
help with transitions between drama groups.
Some things to keep in mind while you are turning your text section into
a play script follow:
1. Identify who should deliver each line.
Your character list will probably include Titus, Link,
Marty, Quendy, Calista, Loga, and the girl in gray (Violet.) You may also decide to create a part for the
narrator or Titus’ unspoken thoughts. This is up to you. Make each character a name tag, so that we
can easily identify the same characters
played by different performers in each group.
2. Develop a creative way of differentiating
between speech, chat, and thoughts.
How
is your audience going to know when the characters are talking to each other
out loud? How will we know when what we
are hearing is a private chat? How will
we know when characters are chatting each other silently? How will we know that Titus is letting only
his audience (and not other characters) hear his thoughts?
3. All
characters should be accounted for on stage, even if they do not deliver lines
during your section.
Look at the actual chapter in the book (pgs 20-24.) Understand the context of your section, and
decide where each character would be during your section of the chapter, and
what they would be doing.
4. Omit text that can be implied or that would
work better as stage directions.
We don’t need to hear the words, “said Calista” if we can
see that Calista is saying her line right in front of us. Likewise, no one would have to deliver the
line “Quendy came back from the bathroom,” if we can instead watch Quendy come
back from the bathroom in real time.
Above all, have fun and work
together! These are short sections, but
you only have 20 min to make sure that you are ready to present to the
class. If you get done early, you can
extend your skit into the previous or following sections from the book.