Week 5-English (Offline) TV Show Analysis

DIRECTIONS: Watch three episodes (or more) of a and complete three activities below. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

HOW TO TURN IN: ● You can choose to write ALL of your responses on ONE google document and share it with your teacher. ● You can choose to handwrite it, take a picture, and send them to your teacher. ● You can choose to hand write it, hold on to it, and turn it in when we return to school.

REMINDER: These activities are optional and will not be graded. These are designed to keep you engaged during ​ ​ our time apart. However, we hope that you participate!

SETTING CHARACTERIZATION CONFLICT Describe the setting. Describe a character or characters. Determine the main conflict of an episode. Write a ⅓ page response detailing the Write a ½ page response that analyzes setting where the majority of the the characteristics of one character. Write down what you believe to be the action takes place. Include physical description, action, major conflict of one episode. Is it Man inner thoughts, reactions, and speech vs. Self, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, or describe in detail in a ½ page Man vs. Nature, or Man vs. response the relationship between two Supernatural? List 5 events and 5 characters. (ie. If they get along, what quotes from characters that exemplify about their personalities allows them or highlight the conflict. to be friends?)

PLOT POINT OF VIEW STYLE Draw a plot diagram for one episode. Determine the protagonist of the Compare two shows of the same show. . Include exposition (background information), conflict (problem), rising Who is the main character of this Watch a different show of the same action (events leading up to the show or episode? Write in a ½ page genre (, drama, romance, climax), climax (where the tension is at response how this show might be documentary, reality, mockumentary) its highest point), falling action (tying different if it were told from the and in a ½ page response, compare up loose ends), and resolution perspective of another character who and contrast how the two shows (conclusion). Use the plot diagram as a has been introduced on the show. portray the genre. Think about timeline and put 10 events on the characters, content (subject matter), timeline. costumes, acting, music, relevance, and effectiveness.

MOOD THEME CREATIVE RESPONSE Determine the overall mood of the Determine the theme of the episode. Write an alternate ending to an show. episode. If there was one thing that the Create an artistic piece that Select one episode and decide a of this episode want to share with the represents the overall mood of this tv different way in which the conflict will show. You could draw, paint, or viewers, what would that be? In other resolve. Remember that “resolution” symbolize in some way how this show words, what’s the moral of the story in does not always mean that there is a makes you feel. (Hint: This is often tied this episode? Write it down and copy happy ending, just that the conflict is to how it is classified - drama, comedy, down three events or quotes from resolved. First write a short recap of etc.) characters that show evidence of that the episode (3-5 sentences) then theme, lesson, or moral. change the ending. Write it out like a tv script.