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Writing and Other Diversions (Optional)
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This section offers a variety of tasks and activities that your instructor can assign, you can do on your own, or you can do with your study group. The more you apply and use your new knowledge, the better you will store it for later retrieval. It is also important to find ways in which you can have fun with your new skills and knowledge.

1.
Work with your study group to create an exploratory guide for drama. What are some clues and cues to watch for in the play? What are the critical questions to ask in order to complete the stages and strategies developed in this Workbook? Which strategies worked and which did not work for you?
2.
Write yourself into the play as a character. Describe your relationship with the characters and your contribution to the action.
3.
Rewrite the play in a contemporary setting.
4.
Comment on the play from the perspective of an outside observer, the "fly on the wall" point of view.
5.
Expand the relationship between two of the characters. Provide the history or background of that relationship that is not provided in the play itself.
6.
Design a quilt (un guadamecí) and describe its role and significance in the play.
7.
Rewrite the last scene to give the play an alternate ending.
8.
Depict the characters as they might appear on a talk show about infidelity or impotence. What would they say? How would they act?
9.
Interview one or two of the characters. What would you ask them and what might they answer?
10.
Form groups, select a scene from the play, and produce it. Design the set and costumes and explain how the actors will deliver the lines. Perform the scene for your class.
11.
Write your own entremés, either individually or with your study group, maintaining all of the "flavor" that was typical of the dramatic format.







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