http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYzGLzFuwxI

Students, please click on the link above, and view the video clip.

This in-class assignment involves the task of using our current list of adjective vocabulary words to create dialogue in skits.  This is a pair assignment, in which you are to pick a partner and chose one of the four scenarios to create together. It is not mandatory for females to play female roles and males to play male roles.  A female can act as a male or vice-versa, to add creativity to the skit.

For reference, use the current list of vocabulary adjective words (included on page with scenarios). You may also use other sources that give word definitions, such as a dictionary, thesaurus, or dictionary website.  The objective is to refrain from simple sentences such as, I feel ________ ; This is ________; You look _______ . Instead, there should be a conscious effort on all participants to use compound sentences and various grammatical clauses & phrases (i.e. prepositional, infinitive, adverb, gerund, etc.) as you create sentences with the vocabulary words for your skit.  You may also change the vocabulary word from the adjective form to the adverb form by adding a “ly” ending, if necessary.

Each skit must:

• Be one of the four options provided.
• Contain dialogue that makes use of many of the current vocabulary words from the list.
• Last a minimum of 5 minutes or a maximum of 8 minutes.
• Contain no foul, vulgar, or offensive language or interactions between actors & actresses (no curse words, touching, kissing, vulgar dancing, etc)

Extra credit points will be given to skits that use relevant props, costumes, etc.

• Although this assignment includes acting, your acting skills or lack of will not be the main deciding factor for your grade. Grades will be based on whether or not the vocabulary words you use are relevant to your skit as well as how creative you are with using various sentence structure for the vocabulary words. So, have fun!  Be creative!  

  Skits will be performed on April 17-18!     

Drama with Adjectives

(Choose one for presentation)

1. Scenario 1:  Marcus is in the seafood restaurant, Red Lobster, with the captain of the varsity cheerleaders. He is feeling giddy inside, because he is finally with the girl of his dreams, Shannon Jones.  Shannon is the most popular girl in the school, and Marcus is absolutely delighted that she has agreed to go out with him.  However, Marcus is not totally certain of Shannon’s feelings for him.  He realizes that just because she agreed to go on a date with him, does not necessarily mean she will kiss him at the end of the date.  Act out a scene in which Shannon uses vocabulary words from the list to express her attraction to Marcus, or act out a scenen in which Shannon uses vocabulary words from the list to express that she is not attracted to Marcus. Actors/Actresses: male (Marcus) and female (Shannon).

2. Scenario 2:  Jenny has been irresponsible on the job lately.  She has been tardy several times within the last month. She has broken the dress code, and just last week, the company’s custodian caught Jenny stealing paper from the copier machine. However, Jenny also recently asked for a raise, after having worked voluntarily for three weekends in a row to write a new company budget. This morning, Jenny receives an email instructing her to report to her supervisor’s office at 1:00 P.M. for a meeting between him and her.  Jenny is not sure she is being called into the supervisor’s office to be fired or to be promoted. Act out a scene in which the supervisor uses relevant vocabulary from the list to express how displeased he is with Jenny, or act out a scene in which the supervisor uses vocabulary from the list to show how proud he is of Jenny.  Actors/Actresses: female (Jenny) and male (the supervisor).

3. Scenario 3: Paula has purchased a new perfume that she loves.  Although she is not sure whether or not her date will like the perfume, Paula decides to wear it on her date. Act out a scene in which Paula’s date uses vocabulary from the list to express how attracted or offended he is to her body scent. Actors/Actresses: female (Paula) and male (her date).

4. Scenario 4:  Two leading tomato sauce companies, Ragu and Hunt’s, have each created a new hot & spicy tomato sauce.  Dr. Darren Crovitz, the master of fine Italian cuisine, has been asked to perform a taste test in public on each sauce, to determine which sauce he will serve to the customers in his restaurant.  Crovitz, who is usually tolerant of most Italian recipes is so disgusted by the taste of the Ragu sauce, he can hardly swallow it. Act out a scene in which Dr. Crovitz tastes each sauce and uses vocabulary from the list to describe the taste of each sauce as well as state which sauce he prefers. Actors/Actresses: male (Dr. Crovitz) and female (woman administering the taste test)

 Vocabulary Words for Scenarios alluring, ambivalent, analyzable, bathetic, bawdy, berserk, chipper, clumsy, colicky, deleterious, demure, despicable, effulgent, emulate, fickle, feverish, frisky, garish, grandiose, grotesque, halcyon, haphazard, hanky-panky, incumbent, indiscriminate, irrational, judicatory, juvenile, keen, kosher, languid, largo, lenitive, manifest, malignant, mangy, nonrestrictive, nugatory, oblivious, obscure, obstinate, palpable, passive, solicitous, stalwart, tangible, thrice, uncouth, unisex, worldly