Name: ________________________________ Final Unit: Coming of Age Monologue
As 8th graders, you are all in the very beginning of the coming of age journey in which you are growing up and transitioning from childhood to adulthoodThis is the perfect time to reflect on your past, present, and future. In this final unit, you will:
● Write about and discuss your own experience growing up based on certain prompts and questions
● Focus on the genre of monologue; read With their Eyes edited by Annie Thoms and write a poetic monologue in the style of Anna Deveare Smith. The purpose of your monologue will be to capture other people’s voice and character, bring their experiences, identities, and language to life.
● Read a coming of age novel and reflect on and write about the theme in the text
Reflection Questions (begin each class by freewriting about a different question for 7-10 min):
● How do culture, age, family, where and when you grow up, society, world events, illness, death, injustice, etc. affect one’s coming of age?
● What events move you from ignorance to knowledge? What knowledge is gained?
● What important realizations do you make about life and the world? How do you arrive at these realizations?
● What is maturity? In what ways are you mature? Immature?
● How do you envision your future? What do you want to be successful at?
● What characteristics and actions must you develop as you grow up? How can you do this?
● What are some conflicts associated with coming of age (identity crisis, rebelliousness, recklessness, isolation…)?
● What important things, if any, are lost completely when you grow up? What aspects of being a child must be abandoned? Why?
● What tragedies and triumphs affect and influence our lives? How? Why?
Monologue Project
● We will read With their Eyes which is a collection of monologues written by Stuyvesant students about 9/11; we will study the form and analyze the themes
● Choose a person to interview whose experience and knowledge can help you better understand coming of age, teach you a lesson about growing up (must be of high school age or older; could be a parent, sibling, neighbor, friend – someone you know well, trust, and even admire).
● Draft interview questions that will help you capture this person’s character, experiences, and perspectives on coming of age.
● Plan, conduct, and record interview in person.
● Listen to the interview again and again. Choose a segment to transribe, word for word.
● Draft a monologue from the transcription, using line breaks to indicate pauses in speech. Essentially, you will write a script that you will perform for the class. Revise and finalize.
● Practice and perform monologue.
Due Dates:
1. Brainstorm for Interview + definite interviewee due: Monday May 20
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2. Interview questions due: Wednesday May 22
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3. Interview and Transcription due: Thursday May 30
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4. 1st draft of monologue due: Tues June 4
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5. Monologue rehearsal: Tues June 4-Wed June 5
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6. Final typed monologue + performance, 4-5 paragraph reflection on project due: Thur June 6.
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Name: ________________________________ Class: _________
Interview Brainstorming (Due Thursday May 10)
Each person has a unique journey from childhood to adulthood. You are going to interview someone about his/her unique experience growing up and learn a universal truth about, someone who you know and trust and possibly admire, based on the overall theme of the final unit which is “coming of age”; this could be anyone of high school age or older.
- Who are at least 3 people you could interview? What do you know about each person? Why might he/she be a good person to interview? What about his/her character would you want to capture?
Name and relation of person
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What do you know about him/her? Why woulld he/she be a good person to interview?
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What might you ask him/her about?
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- Find out who will be willing to be interiewed and to have a monolgue written about them. Explain the assignment to each person.
- Choose a definite person to interview and schedule a time for the interview. Make sure this person would be a good source for your monologue – someone whose language and experience would be interesting to transcribe and perform.
Definite interviewee
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Why you chose this person:
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Date and time of interview (some time between May 14 and May 28; recorded and transcribed interview due May 29):
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