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Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Let's face it, we're all different. Our Differences Define Us is three separate poems about being different: I Only See, is about seeing things that make a person unique as a person and not the physical handicaps that make someone look or act differently.

X-Ray Vision, explores what it would be like if we had x-ray vision. What would the world be like if we only saw what was on the inside, instead of the outside? Kathryn Lehan is the author of Save Yourself! She lives in Houston, Texas. He lives with his wife in Allen, Texas. Read more Read less. Here's how restrictions apply. Product details Grade Level: Don't have a Kindle?

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In fact, a God of infinite creativity loves it when we accept ourselves and others for who He made us to be. This book is a great discussion-starter with children who may face teasing at school or may even be inclined to join the popular bullying crowd just to fit in. I recently finished this book and love it. The layout is easy on the eyes, with much margin. The drawings are beautiful in their simplicity. Some of it is in rhyme, making it fun to read aloud. Craft and Structure 5. How does this information help you understand the character?

Identify an example of dialogue between the Driver and the Traveler that highlights the situation s dramatic irony circumstance in which the audience knows more than the characters. How does this example create humor? Why might the playwright have chosen to include this detail in the stage direction? According to the Driver, how does the new Inspector-General compare to the old one? How does the Driver s description of the new Inspector-General contribute to the play s humor?

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas Discuss Conduct a small-group discussion about the portrayal of government authority in this play. Consider how the relationship between government and the community is depicted in this comic work and how it might be portrayed differently in a tragic work. Research Anton Chekhov s The Inspector-General is a comedy, a form of drama that often, but not always, features humor.

Briefly research comedy as a genre, focusing on the following elements: Write Anton Chekhov is known for his realistic portrayal of characters and their motivations. Write an essay in which you describe a specific behavior of either the Traveler or the Driver and analyze what might have motivated the character to act as he does. Cite details from the play to support your analysis.

Do our differences define us? What do these differences reveal about each character? In William Shakespeare s tale of doomed love, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the title characters come from feuding families. When the two meet and fall in love, family differences rise to the fore. Shakespeare borrowed this story from much older texts, which suggests that the concept of the feud is extremely long-lived. As you read this play, think about how it frames the Big Question for this unit: Through this tale of tragic romance, what is Shakespeare suggesting about the power of anger and hostility?

Do our differences define us, even when love gives us other options? How do details in the setting, the woman s posture, and her clothing contribute to the portrayal of those ideas? A drama is a play, a story written to be performed by actors on a stage or in a film. Sometimes, people use the word drama to refer to a work about a serious subject. However, the broad genre of drama includes every type of performed narrative work, whether lighthearted or serious. Like other works of narrative literature, dramatic works feature characters, or personalities who take part in the action of the story.

The main characters face a conflict, a struggle or problem that propels the sequence of events called the plot. The highest point of interest in the plot, the climax, occurs during the point of greatest tension between characters. As the story winds down, the resolution of the conflict leads to the conclusion of the play. Acts are the basic units of organization in a drama. Acts are often further divided into scenes.

A scene may move the action to a new setting or time of day, it may introduce new characters, or it may shift a play s mood. For example, an evening scene may follow a daytime scene, or a comic scene may lighten the mood of a serious play. The author of a play, called a playwright or dramatist, writes the script, or text of the story. The script contains dialogue, or the characters spoken words. It also contains stage directions, which are instructions about how the play should be performed.

In some plays, the playwright gives detailed stage directions, while in others he or she provides few or none at all.

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All the elements of drama combine in performance to produce an illusion of reality known as dramatic effect. Dramatic effect allows viewers to believe in the events of the story, even though they know the play is artificial. Through this effect, the dramatist explores a theme a deeper meaning or insight about life.

A drama may consist of one or more acts, each of which may contain any number of scenes. Stage directions are the playwright s instructions about how a play should be performed. They may include the following information: Sets may be realistic and look like actual places. They may also be abstract or minimalist and merely suggest real places. We still use these two categories to define dramatic forms. A tragedy traces the downfall of the main character, often called the tragic hero.

In classical drama, the tragic hero is always an important person, such as a general or a king. The hero is admirable but is defeated by a tragic flaw a mistake or a character defect. A comedy has a happy ending. Comedies usually feature a series of events in which the order or balance of the world is disrupted. A comic ending restores order and harmony. Comedies are often funny, but humor is not their defining trait. The main distinction between tragedy and comedy is how the story ends: Tragedies end in death, defeat, or exile, while comedies end in weddings, births, reunions, or other positive, joyful events.

Dramatic Structures Classical dramas, such as most works written by the ancient Greeks and by Shakespeare, take place in five acts and are called five-act plays. The acts follow the structure of most narrative works: In some dramatic works, the five segments of plot are compressed into fewer acts. For example, many screenplays, or scripts written for films, occur in three acts. Act 1 introduces the main characters and the basic situation. Act 2 sets up a problem. Act 3 provides the resolution. One-act plays are dramatic works that are organized in a single act. The one act may still contain multiple scenes.

Types of Dramatic Speeches In most dramatic works, dialogue is the playwright s main tool for developing characters and furthering the plot. Ancient Greek playwrights also used the convention of the chorus, a group of observers who were part of the play but not part of the story.

The chorus provided background information and reacted to the events that unfolded on stage. In some modern dramas, a narrator replaces the chorus. The narrator is a personality or voice that comments on but does not participate in the story. Playwrights use other types of dramatic speeches to supplement dialogue and reveal the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters.

The main types of dramatic speeches are explained in the chart below. Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.

Analyze how an author s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it, and manipulate time create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Type of Speech Monologue Soliloquy Aside Definition A long, uninterrupted speech delivered by a character to other characters on stage A speech in which a character, alone on stage, reveals private thoughts that the audience is allowed to overhear A brief remark a character makes to the audience rather than to other characters Examples from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Romeo speaks about love to Benvolio.

Characters and Conflict In both tragedies and comedies, characters face conflicts, or struggles between opposing forces. There are two main types of conflict: External Conflict Romeo and Juliet struggle against pressures from their feuding families. Complex Characters Great dramas present interesting characters, both protagonists and antagonists, whose stories are compelling to audiences.

Such characters are complex, which means they have strengths and weaknesses and experience mixed emotions. Complex characters have multiple motivations, or a variety of reasons for feeling and behaving as they do. In literary terms, complex characters are round, rather than flat, and dynamic, rather than static.

Character Types Internal Conflict: Internal Conflict Flat One-dimensional; have only one quality Round Multi-dimensional; have many qualities As she enacts the plan that will allow her to join Romeo, Juliet struggles with her fears. The most interesting dramatic works feature important conflicts that engage the audience. For tragic characters, the conflict is often literally life threatening. In a tragedy, the resolution to the conflict involves the main character s destruction or downfall.

For comic characters, the conflict is often symbolically life threatening. For example, the hero in a romantic comedy may not win the woman of his dreams. The quality of his life, if not its substance, is at risk. In a comedy, the resolution to the conflict involves the main character s restoration to health or happiness. Protagonist and Antagonist Most plays focus on a single main character the protagonist. The character who opposes the main character and either creates or adds to the conflict is called the antagonist.

Static Dynamic Unchanging; remain Change and grow the same Flat, static characters are often stock figures, or stereotypes, such as the villain or the damsel in distress. A play is, in part, an exploration of a round, dynamic character s journey from one state of being to another. By dramatizing that journey, a playwright also explores insights into the human condition, or thematic meaning.

There are two general approaches available to a writer: In direct characterization, a writer simply tells the audience about a character. In dramatic works, direct characterization may appear in stage directions. Alternatively, the chorus, a narrator, or another character might tell the audience what a character is like. He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. In indirect characterization, the writer shows the audience what a character is like in any of the following ways: Descriptions of a character s physical appearance The character s own words The character s actions and behavior Other characters reactions to the character An actor brings a character to life on the stage or in a movie by using his or her voice, facial expressions, gestures, and body language, as well as the pitch and phrasing of his or her speech.

Costumes and sets then help to emphasize elements of a character s personality. However, when you read a drama, you must use textual clues to understand characters motivations, feelings, actions, and thoughts. Clues to Characterization When Reading Drama Playwrights help readers understand complex characters by using dialogue, stage directions, punctuation, and word choice to show emotions, relationships, and differences in characters status, education, and environment.

As you read drama, look for these clues to complex characters. Characterization in Drama Punctuation Showing Emotion: You mean the bank will give us the loan? Stage Directions Showing Attitude: I don t see why we can t just enjoy our tea! Word Choice Showing Relationships: You re fantastic, sweet pea!

You rustled up my favorite meal! Dramatic Speeches The different types of dramatic speeches, described on page , also provide critical clues to characters motivations and actions. For example, in a monologue or soliloquy, a character can explain what he or she thinks and feels. The audience learns about the character s conflicts and even his or her secrets. Such speeches help propel the plot because they explain why characters do what they do. Often, these types of speeches also express ideas that are key to the play s theme.

Characters and Theme There are many ways in which characters provide clues to a play s theme. To determine and analyze the theme of a drama, pay attention to characters words, motivations, actions, and reactions. Ask yourself questions such as the following: How do the characters respond to conflicts? What are their reasons for responding as they do?

What change or growth do characters undergo as a result of their experiences? What central ideas are emphasized throughout the drama through the words and actions of the characters? What insights about life or the human condition do these ideas convey? With trade came more knowledge and growing curiosity about the world. Commerce, science, and the arts blossomed as people shifted their focus to the interests and pursuits of human life here on earth. The astronomers Copernicus and Galileo questioned long-held beliefs to prove that the world was round and that it circled the sun, not vice versa.

Navigators, including Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan, braved the seas in tiny boats to explore new lands and seek new trade routes. Artists, including Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, painted and sculpted lifelike human beings. Writers, such as Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, wrote insightfully about complex human personalities in fiction and drama. The delay was caused mainly by civil war between two great families, or houses, claiming the English throne the House of York and the House of Lancaster.

After a successful rule in which English commerce expanded, he was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, whose reign was filled with turmoil. Henry sought a divorce from the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon so that he could remarry and possibly have a son. He was convinced that only a male would be strong enough to hold the throne.

Ironically, his remarriage, to a woman named Anne Boleyn, produced not a son but a daughter, Elizabeth. Even more ironically, when Elizabeth took the throne, she proved to be one of the strongest monarchs that England has ever known. Elizabeth ruled from to , but her reign was so successful that the entire Renaissance in England is often called the Elizabethan Age. The symbol of the House of York was a white rose, while the symbol of the House of Lancaster was a red rose. For that reason, the civil wars fought between the two houses were called the Wars of the Roses. Shakespeare wrote several plays about English monarchs involved in these conflicts.

Treading a moderate and frugal path, Elizabeth brought economic and political stability to the nation, thus allowing commerce and culture to thrive. Advances in mapmaking helped English explorers sail the Old World and claim lands in the New. Practical inventions improved transportation at home.

Craft workers created lovely wares for the homes of the wealthy. Musicians composed fine works for the royal court, and literature thrived, peaking with the plays of William Shakespeare. London became a bustling capital on the busy River Thames temz , where ships from all over the world sailed into port. The city attracted newcomers from the countryside and immigrants from foreign lands.

Streets were narrow, dirty, and crowded, but they were also lined with shops where vendors sold merchandise from near and far. English women enjoyed more freedoms than did women elsewhere in Europe, and the class system was more fluid as well. To be sure, those of different ranks led very different lives. Yet even the lowborn were able to attend one of the city s most popular new amusements: In , more than years after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, English artist Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg painted this image of those dramatic events.

At the time, Spain was the most powerful nation on earth. Nevertheless, the English soundly defeated the invading forces. The victory cemented Elizabeth s popularity with her people. Prior to the battle, the Queen visited her troops to inspire them to fight. Here is a portion of the speech she delivered And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honor and my blood, even the dust.

I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England too. During the Middle Ages, simple religious plays were performed at inns, in castle halls, and on large wagons at pageants. In early Elizabethan times, acting companies still traveled the countryside to perform their plays. However, the best companies acquired noble patrons, or sponsors, who then invited the troupes to perform in their homes. At the same time, Elizabethan dramatists began to use the tragedies and comedies of ancient Greece and Rome as models for their plays.

By the end of the sixteenth century, many talented playwrights had emerged, including Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and, of course, William Shakespeare. England s First Theater England s first successful public theater opened in Known simply as the Theatre, it was built by an actor named James Burbage. Since officials had banned the performance of plays in London, Burbage built his theater in an area called Shoreditch, just outside the London city walls.

Some of Shakespeare s earliest plays were first performed here, including The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, which probably starred James Burbage s son, Richard, as Romeo. The Shoreditch landlord had been causing problems, and Southwark was emerging as a popular theater district. Using timbers from the old theater building, Burbage had a new theater built, bigger and better than the one before. It opened in and was called the Globe. Under that name it would become the most famous theater in the history of the English stage, for many more of Shakespeare s plays were first performed there.

Audience members ate and drank while they watched the plays and apparently made a lot of noise. In , archaeologists found the remains of the foundation of the original Globe Theatre. They also found the discarded shells of the many hazelnuts audiences munched on while watching performances. During Shakespeare s day, acting companies were entirely male.

Women did not perform because it was considered improper. The roles of women were usually played by boys of about eleven or twelve that is, before their voices changed. This photograph of the reconstructed Globe Theatre was made with a special lens. It shows the pit, where the groundlings stood to watch the show, as well as the sheltered galleries.

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They were either round or octagonal, with a central stage open to the sky. This stage stretched out into an area called the pit, where theatergoers called groundlings paid just a penny to stand and watch the play. The enclosure surrounding this open area consisted of two or three galleries, or tiers.

The galleries accommodated audience members who paid more to watch the play while under shelter from the elements, and with some distance from the groundlings. The galleries probably also included a few elegant box seats where members of the nobility could both watch the play and be seen by the masses. The Globe Theatre The three-story structure, open to the air, could house as many as 3, people in the pit and surrounding galleries.

Actors entered and left the stage from doors at stage level. The stage also had a trap door through which mysterious characters, such as ghosts or witches, could disappear suddenly. Some space above the backstage area was used for storage or dressing rooms.

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The first gallery, however, was visible to the audience and used as a second stage. It would have been on a second stage like this that the famous balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet was performed These open-air theaters did not use artificial light. Instead, performances took place in the afternoon, when it was still light outside. There was also no scenery in the theaters of Shakespeare s day. Instead, the setting for each scene was communicated through dialogue.

With no need for set changes, scenes could follow one another in rapid succession. Special effects were simple smoke might billow at the disappearance of a ghost, for example. By contrast, costumes were often elaborate. The result was a fast-paced, colorful production that lasted about two hours. The Blackfriars In , Shakespeare s acting company began staging plays in the Blackfriars Theatre as well as the Globe. Located in London proper, the Blackfriars was different from the earlier theaters in which Shakespeare s plays were performed. It was an indoor space with no open area for groundlings.

Instead, it relied entirely on a wealthier clientele. It was also one of the first English theaters to use artificial lighting, an innovation that allowed for nighttime performances.

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The hut, housing machinery used to lower characters and props to the stage 2. The stage trap, often used for the entrances and exits of special characters, such as ghosts or witches 3. The pit, where groundlings stood to watch the show 5. The words are listed in rank order.

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