Have the numbers 1 through 30 written on the board and tell the students that they will all come up and put their name by a number and that is the order they will be presenting their plays in. INSTRUCTION Go over the elements that their presentation must contain. Ask them to bring up their final draft to hold as they present. After they are done, they will hand their script to you. PRESENTATION Students will present plays and turn them in. CATEGORY Superior Excellent Good Fair Format Script is formatted Script is mostly Script has many Script has so many correctly, including formatted correctly errors in the way it is errors that it makes setting and with a few errors and formatted and does it very difficult to character does not include not include setting read and follow. descriptions. setting and character and character descriptions. descriptions. Plot Structure The scene follows The scene follows The scene vaguely The does not the proper the Plot Structure follows the Plot follow the Plot Aristotelian Plot but it is hard to find Structure correctly Structure and is Structure where you where the five and is missing some missing many can clearly see the elements are. elements. elements. five elements. Characters The characters are The characters are The characters have The characters were named and clearly not described in a one of the following: not clearly thought described in the character development, out and it is hard to character description. The emotion, objectives. keep track of them. description. The characters have characters are also character well developed development, within the scene emotion and with clear emotions objectives but they and objectives. all lack clarity. Presentation Your presentation Your presentation Your presentation Your presentation is contains all of the contains all of the contains most of the unorganized and required elements required elements required elements. unconvincing. and you present a and you tell your convincing argument classmates why they for why your fellow should read/watch classmates should your play. your play.
Have the numbers 1 through 30 written on the board and tell the students that they will all come up and put their name by a number and that is the order they will be presenting their plays in. INSTRUCTION Go over the elements that their presentation must contain. Ask them to bring up their final draft to hold as they present. After they are done, they will hand their script to you. PRESENTATION Students will present plays and turn them in. CATEGORY Superior Excellent Good Fair Format Script is formatted correctly, including setting and character descriptions. Script is mostly formatted correctly with a few errors and does not include setting and character descriptions. Script has many errors in the way it is formatted and does not include setting and character descriptions. Script has so many errors that it makes it very difficult to read and follow. Plot Structure The scene follows the proper Aristotelian Plot Structure where you can clearly see the five elements. The scene follows the Plot Structure but it is hard to find where the five elements are. The scene vaguely follows the Plot Structure correctly and is missing some elements. The does not follow the Plot Structure and is missing many elements. Characters The characters are named and clearly described in the character description. The characters are also well developed within the scene with clear emotions and objectives. The characters are not described in a character description. The characters have character development, emotion and objectives but they all lack clarity. The characters have one of the following: development, emotion, objectives. The characters were not clearly thought out and it is hard to keep track of them. Presentation Your presentation contains all of the required elements and you present a convincing argument for why your fellow classmates should your play. Your presentation contains all of the required elements and you tell your classmates why they should read/watch your play. Your presentation contains most of the required elements. Your presentation is unorganized and unconvincing.
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