Lesson/Topic Assignment Due Date Points

Possible
Week One: Introduction Discussion Board: Acquire Textbook and introduce yourself to August 25th 50
your classmates By 11:59PM

Week Two: Discussion Board: In your own words describe how September 1st 50
What is Screenwriting? screenwriting differs from other forms of literary writing. By 11:59PM

Week Three: Journal Entry: Determine what media format you would like September 8th 50
Screenwriting for different your final project to be written for. Do you want your final By 11:59PM
media formats project to be written for Film, Television or Web Series? Explain
why.
Week Four: Journal Entry: Provide a brief description of the premise for your September 50
Crafting an Idea script project and create a logline. 15th
By 11:59PM

Week Five: Group Assignment: Groups will breakdown the key elements of September 100
Screenwriting structure for a short script of their choice. They will need to provide a diagram 22nd
Film of the script and a 1-2-page paper of the breakdown. By 11:59PM

Week Six: Discussion Board: Identify a web series with compelling writing. September 50
Screenwriting Structure for Describe elements of the writing that you enjoy. Note: you 29th
Television and Web cannot use the same series as one already selected by your By 11:59PM
classmates.
Week Seven: Assignment Paper: Write a 2-4 page analysis of your main October 6th 200
Character Analysis characters. Describe their major flaws, their desire and needs. By 11:59PM
Describe their physical appearance. Be as specific as possible

Week Eight: Script Outline Journal Entry: Create an outline of your script project, be sure to October 13th 50
provide the major plot points. For film, include your inciting By 11:59PM
incident, mid-point turn, crisis and resolution. For Television,
include your cold open, teaser, all acts based on length and tag.
Fall Break
Week Nine: Creating Discussion Board: Provide a link to a scene from a movie or October 27th 50
Dialogue television show which showcases the elements of dialogue By 11:59PM
covered in the lesson
Week Ten: Script Script Project Assignment: Write a rough draft of your script November 3rd 150
Formatting By 11:59PM

Week Eleven: Treatment Journal Entry: Write a treatment for your script November 10th 50
By 11:59PM

Week Twelve: Script Project Assignment: You will be assigned to critique one November 17th 100
Feedback and script analysis of your classmates’ scripts and provide hones feedback By 11:59PM

Week Thirteen: Script Project Assignment: You will use the feedback from your November 24th 100
Effectively Rewriting a classmates to rewrite your script By 11:59PM
Screenplay

Thanksgiving Break
Week Fourteen: Table Read Group Assignment: Each group will complete a table read of December 8th 100
each script in the group and provide 1-2 paragraphs to each By 11:59PM
author.
Week Fifteen: Discussion Board: Identify the submission process for entering a December 15th 50
Industry Submissions script in a festival or to a literary agent. Describe how this festival By 11:59PM
would benefit your script.
Script Project Assignment: Complete and submit the final draft 300
of your script