Humourous Skit Assignment: Due Tuesday May 7, 2013

Part 1:  Xtranormal Videos
The class will be watching their XtraNormal videos this Friday afternoon (May 3rd).  Parents are welcome to attend the viewing.  I will also try to post each students videos on the blog (if I can figure out a way).

Part 2:  Humorous Skit
As part of our unit on Humour, students will be working on creating a Humorous skit.  As a class, we negotiated the criteria.  Students are encouraged to make regular reference to the criteria as the criteria will determine their mark for this assignment. 

Part 3:  Humorous Written Story
The final part of this assignment will start next week as students will need to write a humorous story.  Students will need to include:

• characteristics of a story:  problem, solution, characters, setting, beginning, middle and end
• Organize their key events on their Story Maps
• Keep dialogue short and realistic
• Dialogue needs to move the story ahead
• Starting point of their story is unusual
• Details give warnings of problems ahead
• Ending has a twist or surprise.

HUMOROUS SKIT Criteria:

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Humour	Students laugh 8 or more times.	Students laugh 7 times.	Students laugh 6 times.	Students laugh 5 or less times.
Short Dialogue and Moves Story Ahead	Identifies the characteristics of good dialogue, with a high degree of effectiveness. Dialogue is short and simple.	Identifies the characteristics of good dialogue, with considerable effectiveness. Dialogue is short and simple.	Identifies the characteristics of good dialogue, with some degree of effectiveness. Dialogue may be longer at times and may not always makes sense.	Identifies the characteristics of good dialogue, with limited effectiveness. Dialogue is to long and does not make sense.
Acting/dialogue	The student uses consistent voices, facial expressions and movements to make the characters more believable and the story more easily understood.	The student often uses voices, facial expressions and movements to make the characters more believable and the story more easily understood.	The student tries to use voices, facial expressions and movements to make the characters more believable and the story more easily understood.	The student tells the story but does not use voices, facial expressions or movement to make the storytelling more interesting or clear.
Duration	The storytelling lasts 3-4 minutes.	The storytelling lasts 2-3 minutes.	The storytelling lasts 1-2 minutes.	The storytelling lasts less than 1 minutes.
Voice	Always speaks loudly, slowly and clearly. Is easily understood by all audience members all the time	Usually speaks loudly, slowly and clearly. Is easily understood by all audience members almost all the time.	Usually speaks loudly and clearly. Speaks so fast sometimes that audience has trouble understanding.	Speaks too softly or mumbles. The audience often has trouble understanding.
Written Copy	The student turns in an attractive and complete copy of the story including a setting, problem, solution and characters.	The student turns in a complete copy of the story in the correct format, including a setting, problem, solution and characters.	The student turns in an complete copy of the story, but the format was not correct. May be missing parts (setting, problem, solution, characters).	The student turns in an incomplete copy of the story outline.