11/13/17

Three-act Structure Writing

Today in class we wrote the letter about the three-act structure.  The letter included Ready Player One and Back to the Future.  We either chose to write from the teachers perspective, from Cline and/ or Zemeckis' perspective, or say why one of the pieces of literature is better than the other.  While writing your letter you needed to add textual evidence of the claims that you pick.  You did have the option to have some pre-writing done before class today and were able to use that.  Mr. Rivers explained that we could not have our letter written before class either!  In my pre-writing I had my textual evidence that I wanted to use and the points of what I wanted to talk about.  Personally doing the pre-writing helped me a lot, because I was not searching the whole period to find evidence to support my claims.  At the end of the period we had to turn in whatever we had done with the letter.  I suggest that if you have not done any pre-writing to do at least a little.  Forty two minutes seems like a long time to write a letter, but the period went by extremely fast.
Here are the main points of the three-act structure that you could use in the letter:
Act One: Point of Attack, Inciting Incident
Act Two: New Tension, Milestone, Midpoint, Subplot, Biggest Challenge, New Tension, Twist
Act Three: Grand Focus to Personal Focus, Character Growth   
Today teachers have to write letters/emails home to parents and some students have to write letters/emails to the principal on what happened and why they should not be in trouble. This can happen so often with teachers and students.  There are also people out there that base their piece of literature off of the three-act structure.