PLANNING FOR GROWTH IN YEARS OF RESTRICTED RESOURCES

Oct 23 Act I Script conference and readings in class: Turn in one copy of your firstdraft of Act I. Bring enough copies to this class and all subsequent scriptconference classes so that each student who reads a part in your screenplayhas his/her own copy.Oct 28 Act I Script conferences continued.Oct 30 Act I script conferences continued.Nov 4 Act II script conference in class: Present your first draft ofAct II. Don’t forget to bring copies.Nov 6Act II script conferences continued. Pass out copies of next test.Nov 11 Test on Armer Chapters 1-7.Nov 13 Act II script conferences continued.Nov 18 Act III script conferences in class. Don’t forget to bring copies.Nov 20 Act III script conferences in class. Pass out copies of final test. Anyone whoearned 23/25 to 25/25 on first three tests doesn’t have to take the final booktest and gets an automatic 25/25!Nov 25 Thanksgiving break. Use this time to rewrite drafts, munch turkey, etc.Nov 27 More Thanksgiving break.Dec 2Dec 4More Act III script conferences in class.Test on Armer Chapters 8-endFinal Exam Day, Wednesday, Dec. 11, at noon sharp: Deliver a Final Draft (one copy)of your TV series script to my office.(Note: After you retrieve your graded, comment-filled copy of your script from the boxoutside my office and re-write it, be sure to save this for your senior portfolio.)(Sad to have to mention this at all, but I must add a few words about plagiarism: Seehttp://www.siue.edu/POLICIES/1i6.html for SIUE’s official policy, which is mine, too.Remember that previously-aired plots, story ideas registered with the WGA, broadcastcopy and scripts are as protected from misappropriation as books and articles, and aretherefore subject to the plagiarism policy. So be creative and do your own work.)29Feedback September 2003 (Vol. 44, No. 4)