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Launch
Students will launch the dramatic writing project by analyzing performed texts, trying core rehearsal and writing routines, gathering first audience insights from peers and a community partner, and producing an initial monologue draft that can be tested, revised, and used to frame later empathy research and design work.
Days 1 - 8
🎭 Script to Stage Kickoff
Launch 55m
📖 Shakespeare and Wilson Close Read
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🎬 Performance Choices Comparison Notes
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🗣️ Table Read and Warmup Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
💡 Audience Needs Interview Sprint
Research 50m
🎤 Broadway Spotlight Talkback
Community Experience 55m
✍️ One-Page Monologue Draft
Project Work 60m
🔁 Monologue Readaround Revision Check
Deliverable 60m
Research & Empathy
Students will gather and analyze firsthand evidence about what audiences, performers, and educators find believable, memorable, and performable in dramatic writing. They will use interviews, observation, comparison of performed texts, and structured feedback cycles to produce an empathy artifact with quotes, insights, needs, and assumptions to test in the next phase.
Days 9 - 21
🎭 Audience Needs Interview Protocol
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🎬 Shakespeare and Wilson Response Study
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🗣️ Broadway Spotlight Question Jam
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🎤 Performer Interview Rounds
Research 55m
🏫 Table Read Observation Notes
Research 55m
🌆 Setting and Conflict Annotation Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🤝 92Y Artist Talkback Notes
Community Experience 55m
🧩 Insight Clusters and Assumption Check
Project Work 55m
📝 Empathy Map Draft Board
Deliverable 55m
🔁 Empathy Board Feedback Round
Project Work 55m
🎥 Recorded Readiness Strategy Notes
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
📌 Empathy Artifact Revision Sprint
Deliverable 55m
✅ Research Evidence Conference
Assessment 55m
Synthesize & Define
Students will synthesize user research from earlier interviews, observations, and performance feedback into a clear design direction for a writing-for-performance course sequence. They will cluster evidence, identify audience needs, define a focused problem through a How Might We statement and design brief, and draft a standards-aligned outline that includes monologues, dialogues, scenes, screenplay work, rehearsal routines, critique cycles, and performance checkpoints.
Days 22 - 34
🧩 Research Wall Pattern Sort
Launch 55m
🎭 Mentor Course Sequence Study
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🗂️ Insight Clusters and Tensions
Research 55m
✍️ How Might We for Scripts
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🧠 Design Brief for Audience Needs
Project Work 55m
📚 Standards to Script Map
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🪜 Course Arc Storyboard Draft
Project Work 55m
💬 Peer Critique on Course Arc
Deliverable 55m
🎬 Broadway Spotlight Design Check
Community Experience 55m
🔁 Revised Outline and Feedback Loops
Project Work 55m
📄 Design Brief Gallery Walk
Deliverable 50m
✅ Synthesis Pitch and Defense
Assessment 65m
📝 Next-Phase Concept Criteria Sheet
Deliverable 45m
Ideate Multiple Concepts
Students will generate and compare multiple course-design concepts for dramatic writing and performance, using audience evidence, mentor texts, peer critique, and quick concept testing to choose one direction for the next phase.
Days 35 - 47
🎭 Concept Modes from Script to Stage
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
📝 Criteria for Memorable Course Concepts
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🎬 Mentor Structures for Monologue to Screenplay
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
💡 Three Course Pathway Sketches
Project Work 110m
🗣️ Broadway Spotlight Concept Talkback
Community Experience 55m
📋 Comparison Board Draft
Deliverable 55m
🔁 Two-Peer Critique on Comparison Boards
Project Work 55m
🎤 Table Read Sequence Stress Test
Project Work 55m
🎥 Rehearsal Strategy Notes from Video Clips
Research 45m
🧭 Decision Notes and Chosen Direction
Deliverable 55m
✍️ Script Artifact Fit Check
Project Work 45m
✅ Concept Selection Conference
Assessment 55m
📓 Recorded Reflection on Concept Choice
Research 30m
Prototype & Validate
Students will build and test low-fidelity prototypes of dramatic writing course components, including a sample lesson flow, a workshop routine, and a draft script prompt with performance expectations. Through table reads, peer critique, self-review with recordings, and feedback from outside users, they will complete two documented revision cycles and justify how their changes improve believability, clarity, and audience usefulness.
Days 48 - 60
🎭 Prototype Criteria from Table Reads
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
📝 Strong Script Prompts and Rubrics
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🎤 Rehearsal Tools for Micro Performances
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🧩 Lesson Flow Prototype Build
Project Work 55m
🎬 Script Prompt and Stage Direction Draft
Deliverable 55m
🔁 Feedback Round on Prototype Drafts
Deliverable 55m
📚 Micro Table Read User Test
Project Work 55m
🎥 Recording Review and Revision Map
Research 50m
🤝 Broadway Spotlight Feedback Lab
Community Experience 55m
🛠️ Iteration Two Prototype Sprint
Project Work 55m
🗣️ Second Table Read and Peer Notes
Project Work 55m
✅ Prototype Validation Checkpoint
Assessment 55m
📓 Design Rationale and Next Test
Research 55m
Refine & Present
Students will refine a higher-quality dramatic writing course prototype by tightening audience-focused writing and performance elements, testing those choices through read-throughs with representative users, and preparing a stakeholder-facing presentation that shows how evidence, critique, revision, and rehearsal shaped final design decisions.
Days 61 - 72
🎯 Audience Needs to Revision Moves
Launch 55m
🧭 Script Sequence and Conflict Check
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🎭 Rehearsal Strategies for Read-Throughs
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🛠️ Course Prototype Revision Sprint
Project Work 55m
🗣️ Two-Peer Critique on Script Package
Deliverable 55m
🌆 Setting, Stage Directions, and Screenplay Polish
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🤝 Broadway Spotlight Read-Through
Community Experience 55m
🎬 Read-Through Revision Round Two
Project Work 55m
📹 Performance Reflection from Recording
Deliverable 45m
📊 Evidence-to-Decision Presentation Build
Project Work 55m
🎤 Stakeholder Presentation Rehearsal
Deliverable 55m
🏁 Refined Prototype Presentation
Assessment 55m
Showcase
Students will finalize and present their dramatic writing and performance work to authentic audiences, use critique to make last revisions, perform polished pieces in class and for community guests, and document how audience response and self-analysis shaped their final artistic choices.
Days 73 - 80
🎭 Showcase Run Order
Launch 45m
🎤 Performance Notes Clinic
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
📝 Final Script Polish
Project Work 55m
🔁 Two-Peer Dress Feedback
Deliverable 55m
🏛️ Broadway Spotlight Talkback
Community Experience 50m
🎬 Recorded Micro Performances
Assessment 55m
🌟 Talent Show Staged Reading
Assessment 70m
📹 Portfolio Reflection Cut
Deliverable 50m