Dramatic Monologue Assignment

Today we researched for our dramatic monologue. The assignment follows:

`Creative Writing                                                                                Name

Dramatic Monologue

 

 

Walk a Mile (or at Least Fifty Lines) in Someone Else’s Shoes

 

            Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be someone famous, or powerful? Someone who won an important battle, wrote a book that changed the world, or someone who discovered a new world?

 

            Your assignment is to research a person of historical significance and write a dramatic monologue of at least fifty lines from this person’s point of view. I’ve listed some possible personas below, although you are not limited to these people. In order to prepare for writing the dramatic monologue you will have to do some reading and some research. You will need to find a minimum of three useful sources, including a book, (not just online sources—although print resources may be from databases which are accessed through the Internet). While you should begin your research with a reference source (Wikepedia, encyclopedia, etc…), the reference source should be a source IN ADDITION to more in-depth resources. 

           

            You will compile an annotated works cited page. The purpose of the research is not to limit you to writing about what you’ve read, nor are you required to include your research in the poem. Instead, reading about this person should help you determine an appropriate voice, a purpose, situation, setting, conflict and resolution to the poem. While dramatic monologues are not research papers, and should not read like research papers, they are rich in detail and description of the time, place and people.

           

            While we will (briefly) review the procedure for compiling an annotated bibliography, I highly recommend that you use the website Noodletools.

 

            Before you begin writing you might consider the following: Who is this person? What would be a central conflict they might have? How might this conflict be resolved? What other people might be involved in the poem? What is the time and place? Who might he or she be speaking to? For what purpose?

 

Annotated works cited page due:________________________

 

Three copies of the rough draft due: _____________________

 

Final typed copy due: ______________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some People to Consider:

 

Christopher Columbus             Queen Elizabeth                      Amelia Earhart

Joan of Arc                                          Mary Queen of Scots               Henry VIII

Louis Armstrong                                  Babe Ruth                                Jackie Robinson

Socrates                                              Benedict Arnold                      Ludwig Beethoven

Napoleon                                             Virginia Woolf                        Abigail Adams

Catherine of Aragon                            Henry Hudson                         Neil Armstrong

Marie Curie                                         Galileo                                    Michelangelo

Charlemagne                                       Elizabeth Blackwell                Florence Nightengale

Charles Lindberg                                 Lewis and/or Clark                 Charles Dickens

Machiavelli                                         Leonardo DaVinci                   Mary Cassatt

William Shakespeare                          Orville & Wilbur Wright        John Lennon

Annie Oakley                                      Clara Barton                            Harriet Tubman

Emma Willard                                     Thomas Jefferson                    Josephine Baker

Howard Hughes                                  Al Capone                               Julius Caesar

Eleanor Roosevelt                               Isaac Newton                          Louisa May Alcott

Harriet Beecher Stowe                        Edgar Allan Poe                      Genghis Khan

John F. Kennedy                                  Marilyn Monroe                      Henry Ford

Katherine Hepburn                              Albert Einstein                        Pablo Picasso

Gertrude Stein                                     Nellie Fox                               Ayn Rand