Radio+Theater

=Myth Radio Theater Collaborative Project =

The 6th Grade Assignment
Read the 9th grade wiki pages to learn about plot structure and characterization techniques for developing a radio play. Then, draft a script that retells the story of a famous Greek myth. Revise your script according to the feedback supplied by your script consultants; then rehearse and record your play. Create three color illustrations for the final wiki page for your project.

The 9th Grade Assignment
Working with the 6th grade English students, provide background information, script consulting, and post-production audio editing to help them produce short radio plays that retell Greek myths for posting online.

 First, conduct research to locate and synthesize key information about how to write an effective radio play. Develop a wiki page that includes both text and at least one video clip to present the information. Include additional, appropriate visuals on the page both to enhance your information and to create an attractive, engaging page.

Once the 6th graders have developed their preliminary drafts, provide positive and constructive feedback,including specific suggestions for strengthening the characterization and plot development without editing their drafts. When the final drafts are ready, convert them to correct radio script format and add sound effects and background music. Edit the sound files to produce the plays.

 Samples can be found [|here]. (Note, this was a ninth grade assignment last year.)

 The sixth graders' assignment is posted here: [|6thgradeGreekRadioProject1.doc]

Your page should provide clear, specific information on the following topics. Do not quote your sources; instead, take the best ideas from several sources and synthesize the information in a format that is easy to read. Remember that you will need to cite your sources at the bottom of your wiki page.

 Plot Structure  Characterization Techniques  Writing Powerful Dialogue  Writing for Audio Theater: [|a list of resources] to get you started.

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Open the Word document and do a save-as to your flash drive. Create a new folder with the short title and number: for example, phaeton6. (Notice – no spaces!) You will save all your work into this folder so that the original source material remains unedited. Then, save your document into this folder with an s in the front: for example sphaeton6 (s for script).
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Delete the students’ names and give the play a creative title.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Review script format] and make whatever adjustments are necessary on your copy. Proofread for spelling, punctuation, and other mechanical errors, but do not change the words.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Save your edited draft.

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Create a wiki page for your project linked from the project home page (scroll down); be sure to use your short title to name the page: for example Phaethon 6. Once your page is created, copy and paste the text of the Word document into the page.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Resave and rename the images in the source folder into your folder in the following format: 1phaeton6, 2phaeton6 (the number of the picture followed by the name of your project).
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Upload your images to the wiki and insert them into the script in the appropriate places. Be sure to align the text so the image aren’t on lines by themselves: alternate sides so that all the pictures aren’t on the right or the left.

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Find and save the appropriate sound effects to your folder.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Open the mp3 file from the source folder in Audacity and resave/rename it in your folder. This is the copy you will edit so that you can go back to the original if necessary.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Edit the project. Try to remain as true to the script as you can. Save frequently.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">If you want to download the program for work at home, click on the Audacity logo.

=<span style="color: #8d072a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Final Projects = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Asclepius <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Bellerophon Dionysus 5 Icarus Hades and Persephone Midas 1 Midas 6 Orpheus 1

Orpheus 5 Pan and Echo 1 Pan and Echo 2 Pan and Echo 6 Perseus 2 Perseus 6 Phaeton 2 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Phaeton 6