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.

 

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