Guidelines

1. FINAL EXAM:
DRAMATIZATION

2. WHAT IS DRAMA
Drama is essentially a creative activity involving movement, language,
imagination, emotion, and social interaction to represent a story, a situation, a
moment or an act. Drama can also involve clothing, objects, scenery and music.
When the word ‘drama’ is mentioned several words come to mind: role-plays,
acting, pretending, miming, performance, theatre, puppets, characters, scenes...
the list is endless. In the classroom, drama activities range from simple games
involving movement, to an extended project culminating in public performance.

3. DRAMATIZE COMMON SITUATIONS
• Show agreement, disagreement, give opinions, present excuses or apologize
• Face expressions and gestures showing shame, self-confidence, hate, love,
conflict and despair
• Don’t worry about costumes
• No papers

4. CONTENT
• Act (Dramatizing) – 80%
• Script (writing) – 20%

5. HOW TO START
For the sake of our class…
• Choose a topic
• List the characters
• Think of a suitable plot

6. HOW TO…
• Sketch ideas (brainstorm)
• Set program (timeframe)
• Format the script

7. NEXT STEP:
ORGANIZING IDEAS

8. ABOUT THE FORMATUNIVERSITY OF PANAMA
FACULTY OF HUMANITITES
ENGLISH SCHOOL
ADVANCED CONVERSATION – 380A
FINAL WORK: DRAMA SCRIPT
(Your name)
JUNE 18, 2014
• Presentation page
• Rubrics
• Script

9. SCRIPT
SAMPLES

10. SCRIPT
SAMPLES
“Sky Pirates”
FADE IN:
INT. PLAYROOM - DAY
MAX is at the play table, working away at a coloring book when EMMY
enters, struggling with a cardboard box. Max looks up.
MAX
What’s in the box, Em?
EMMY
(straining)
Old toys.
She drops the box in the middle of the room with some relief. Max bursts
out of his chair...
MAX
TOYS!! Lemme see!
Max tears into the box, pulls out an old-fashioned tin airplane. He spins
the propeller. It goes around a few times, then stops. Max frowns.
MAX
Where’re the vroom-vroom sounds?
He drops the plane, searches the box for more. Emmy takes out an old-
fashioned doll, pulls the string.
DOLL
Ma-ma!
Emmy drops the doll, looks for more. Max withdraws an ordinary child’s
large, spinning tin top. He places it on the floor, shoves the handle
down and the top spins, making a simple WHISTLING sound. Then it topples
over.
MAX
This stuff’s bor-ring.
Emmy takes out a jack-in-the-box, starts to crank it, playing “Pop Goes
the Weasel”.
EMMY
I wonder why Mom and Dad liked to play with
them.

11. PRESENTING THE SCRIPT
• You’ll have to bind it
• Must be clean and neat
• Remember… It’s the final
and goes to the Colina.

12. MAKE IT SIMPLE

13. OTHER SOURCES
• About drama:
http://www.penguinreaders.com/pdf/downloads/pyr/PYRTGDramStories.pdf
• Writing a script:
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Script
• Binding the script:
http://users.gobigwest.com/rosegate/binding.html#spiral

14. DON’T TAKE THIS AS THE ONLY SOURCE
GATHER DIFFERENT SAMPLES AND COME UP WITH
SOMETHING ORIGINAL
EVEN MORE REFERENCES:
UPCONVERSATION-FINAL.BLOGSPOT.COM