5/5: Lit as Film

Students will read and recognize the conventions of screenwriting.

Agenda:
- Finish Captain Phillips (2013)
- Read For a Few Days More by April Rider
- Read Grady's Tale by Masha Simon then discuss:
Which script is better?  Why?  Which rules are broken?  What's confusing?
- Read the first two pages of Lethal Weapon by Shane Black then discuss:
Which rules are broken?  How does Black establish a sense of place?

HW:
- Check Edline!