Unit 16 What Friends Are For
Let’s talk Scan this play.
• How is a play different from a story? • How many characters are there? • How do you know who is speaking? Reading Read scene 1 of this play. Think about who is a good friend to Shawn – Ken or Joel?
List of characters
Where and when the scene
What Friends Are For Characters: JOEL JOEL’S MOTHER KEN SHAWN’S MOTHER SHAWN
takes place
Scene 1: The school yard, at the end of the day.
Name of speaker
JOEL: What’s up, Shawn? You look fed up. SHAWN ( miserably ): I got into trouble because I was late and I have not done my homework. KEN ( laughing ): That’s the third time this week and you did badly in the maths test. You’re lazy. SHAWN ( angrily ): You don’t know anything! JOEL: Cool it, Shawn. Come and play cricket. SHAWN ( walking away ): No. I’m going home. KEN ( taunting ): You’re boring, Shawn. JOEL: Leave him alone, Ken.
Stage directions tell an actor how to speak or what to do.
• Remind students that different types of texts have different features. Discuss the notes beside the playscript on this page.
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