Aim: How can we write a scene between our two characters that incorporates good dialogue?

Do Now: Based on your character bio, please write a short dialogue exchange between your character and his or her mother or father who is on their case to do something. How would your character react to this based on what you know about them… 3 people will be picked at random to read theirs to the class. (5 min.)

2.) Continuing from yesterday’s independent Practice:
Please take five more minutes to finish the dialogue between your characters that placed him or her in one of the situations that we brainstormed yesterday. I will be picking three people to read theirs in five minutes… (5 min.)

3.) Share out:
Let’s hear from a few people.

4.) Mini-Lesson
http://overstreet-filmmaking.blogspot.com/2009/08/writing-good-dialogue-for-screenplays.html
Please click on the link, on the blog, and please read the page, be prepared to tell the class what Chiarella boils good dialogue down to. You have three minutes to read it.
(3 min.)
NOW TURN AND TALK to your partner, what does he say?
5.) Share out: What does Chiarella say good dialogue boils down to?

Aim: What is good dialogue for your main characters?

• Dialogue is a conversation between two or more people.
• Dialogue is essential to fiction writing.
• Dialogue brings characters to life and adds interest.
• Dialogue must do more than just duplicate real speech.
• Writing dialogue consists of the most exciting, most interesting, most emotional, and most dramatic words.

I want you to create a ten line dialogue, working with a partner:


The situations, or you can use one of yours…
• Parent - Teacher: How much money might it take for my son/daughter to get a '90'?
• Friend - Friend: Who's dating whom?
• Teacher Upholding the Integrity of School Rules - Student cheating on a Test: How much is a zero going to hurt?
• Girlfriend Catching Boyfriend with another Girl - Boyfriend Claiming It Was His Sister: Why boy was making out with his alleged sister?
• Teenager - Parent: What possibly Jose could have been doing out until 3:00 A.M.?

• Your 10 line dialogue should:
o Provide Information
o Describe a Place or Character
o Create a Sense of Time
o Create Suspense or Conflict
o Move the Story Forward
o Reveal a Character's Thoughts
o Summarize What Has Happened
o Create a Sense of Place (10 min.)