Drama Writers -- Southern Lehigh Middle School -- Day 2, July 20th

Campers began the day with a daily edit all about Alex. There sure were some well-hidden convention mistakes, but we persevered and were able to edit them all. Poetry was used today to emphasize good pronunciation, voice projection, and timing. After a demonstration by Mrs. Gaugler and Mrs. Filbert, reading "Whirly-Gig," a poem for two voices, the campers received their own poems and a partner to practice with. Partners enthusiastically read their poems for two
voices on stage for the rest of the group.

Drama writers were informed today that the main focus of their script writing is going to be mystery writing. A power-point was shown on how to write a mystery script. We practiced reading a script on stage, and then broke into small groups to plan, with a Mystery Story Skeleton, a short five-to-ten minute script using items from a previous activity (scavenger hunt). We are still working on these scripts, hoping to draft them and practice tomorrow.

Chloe said this about today's activities:
For "homework" we did a scavenger hunt for items from a list, and today we showed off the items and used some of them in our script-writing. I most enjoyed the poem for two voices today that I performed with Allison. Tomorrow, my group will be working hard on our script-writing.