8/25: using

...a connect-the-dots activity as an analogy for literary interpretation and dramatic presentation.  The dots are the text or script; the straight lines connecting some of them are the literary interpretation; embellishments of those lines are the layers that are added through staging and performance.  My co-teacher and I may have liked the exercise more than the students did, but they had some fun adding to one another's pieces, and it was a good way to spend part of our first full class together.