Scene: a part of the play in which the setting does not change; if the setting needs to change, Acts: then you move to a new scene. Scenes: Drama/Play examples for genre anchor chart Author’s Purpose: to entertain Book Examples- Pecos Bill and a Characters: portrayed by the actors in the play; Stampede! may include a narrator who provides background information and fills in details Author’s Purpose: to entertain the reader with a about the characters, setting, or events play about Pecos Bill and Jack who have to try to save Odessa from a stampede Stage Directions: notes from the playwright Characters: Narrator, Man 1, Woman, Man 2, (author/writer of the play) that tell actors how Telegraph Operator, Pecos Bill, Jack, and Hank to move or with what emotion certain lines Stage Directions: (Points toward a cloud of should be read; give information about how to dust) (A loud rumble is heard. Bill jumps.) (Bill set up the stage for the play, including props to hurries off stage right, leading Lightning.) use and what the actors might wear; stage (Annoyed) (Alarmed) directions usually appear in parentheses and in italic type. Dialogue: the conversations between Dialogue: characters that are read aloud by actors; a play Pecos Bill: Jack, look at that cloud of dust is made up almost entirely of dialogue. rising in the sky. Our herd must be Plot: the action of the story, or what happens, stampeding. as revealed through dialogue and stage Plot: The herd stampedes and Odessa is in directions; may be based on real events and danger. Pecos Bill asks for Jack to help, but he’s people or made up by the writer. too afraid. Bill stops the stampede and saves Setting: can be any place, real or imaginary; Odessa himself. usually described in stage directions Setting: 1840’s Texas Prairie and town, Odessa Acts: large sections of a play between breaks; Acts: there is only 1 Act with 3 scenes in this can be further divided into scenes play
Acts: Scenes: Drama/Play examples for genre anchor chart Author’s Purpose: to entertain Characters: portrayed by the actors in the play; may include a narrator who provides background information and fills in details about the characters, setting, or events Stage Directions: notes from the playwright (author/writer of the play) that tell actors how to move or with what emotion certain lines should be read; give information about how to set up the stage for the play, including props to use and what the actors might wear; stage directions usually appear in parentheses and in italic type. Dialogue: the conversations between characters that are read aloud by actors; a play is made up almost entirely of dialogue. Plot: the action of the story, or what happens, as revealed through dialogue and stage directions; may be based on real events and people or made up by the writer. Setting: can be any place, real or imaginary; usually described in stage directions Acts: large sections of a play between breaks; can be further divided into scenes Scene: a part of the play in which the setting does not change; if the setting needs to change, then you move to a new scene. Book Examples- Pecos Bill and a Stampede! Author’s Purpose: to entertain the reader with a play about Pecos Bill and Jack who have to try to save Odessa from a stampede Characters: Narrator, Man 1, Woman, Man 2, Telegraph Operator, Pecos Bill, Jack, and Hank Stage Directions: (Points toward a cloud of dust) (A loud rumble is heard. Bill jumps.) (Bill hurries off stage right, leading Lightning.) (Annoyed) (Alarmed) Dialogue: Pecos Bill: Jack, look at that cloud of dust rising in the sky. Our herd must be stampeding. Plot: The herd stampedes and Odessa is in danger. Pecos Bill asks for Jack to help, but he’s too afraid. Bill stops the stampede and saves Odessa himself. Setting: 1840’s Texas Prairie and town, Odessa Acts: there is only 1 Act with 3 scenes in this play
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