2.6 Drama Extract: This is Your Brain on Social Media by Ian McWethy and Carrie McWethy Crossan
Learning Intentions In this section you will ... ✓ Read the script of a play to appreciate characters, interactions and comic moments. ✓ Explore basic elements of performance and stagecraft, using a variety of oral language skills.
Before Reading Think Pair Share
How would the world change if all social media platforms suddenly went offline? Would it change your life for better or worse? Think: Working alone, take one minute to think about your responses to the two questions above.
Pair: 0 Share your information with the person next to you and discuss your responses.
Share: Be ready to tell the class about your responses. As a class, make a list on the whiteboard of the all the changes the world would experience if all social media platforms suddenly went offline. Take a vote on whether your lives would change for better or for worse.
Reading
The following is an extract from a comic drama set in an American high school. This extract features three characters – Jayna, Marisol and Perry.
by Ian McWethy and Carrie McWethy Crossan (JAYNA and MARISOL are Insta-ing on their separate phones.)
JAYNA:
Uh, Georgie is so annoying! Why does she only take pictures of her feet!
MARISOL: I think she thinks it’s a joke maybe. JAYNA:
And then she’s always giving me crap about how I never like her feed. She’s always sending me Penguin-Eating- Cake-on-Fire emojis and it’s so annoying.
Marisol! Penguin-Eating-Cake-on-Fire is the universal way to say, ‘Why aren’t you liking my grams?’ How do you not know that? Even my mom Penguin-Eating-Cake-on-Fires and she’s the worst.
