Seniors Journal Assignment for 2nd Quarter

This is your ONE and only journal assignment for the quarter. It is due Wednesday, March 21. YOU DO NOT NEED TO POST THIS. JUST PRINT OUT YOUR RESPONSES AND HAND IN WEDNESDAY.

To show that you understand the five types of drama (stage plays), select a specific play or movie to exemplify any FOUR of the five types.

Write a minimum of 200 words for each of your four choices.

Your tragedy may be Greek, Shakespearean, or modern (as long at it involves a person of greatness or "imagined" greatness who has fallen).

Your drama should be a serious play or film that comments on a serious societal theme, not a personal one, though it may involve a single person.

Your melodrama should be a play or film that is plot driven or suspenseful. It may carry a message, but the message is secondary to the action.

Your comedy must "begin in doubt but end in wisdom," and of course, it should not be TOO serious or TOO silly, either. Think of the classic genre of the "romantic comedy," or think Shakespeare.

Your farce should evoke laughter at any cost. It there is a theme to the story, it's buried under the comedy.