Thursday, September 24, 2009
Back 2 School Night
Tonight, from 6:30-8:30 , Tantasqua will be holding an informative "meet the teacher" night. I encourage all parents/guardians to consider attending. It is a great way to casually meet them and discuss the many great things that we will be doing this year together. Looking forward to meeting them!
Brit Lit:
Due to a scheduling mix up this morning, coupled with the Sr assembly, your Pilgrimage paper will be now due next Tuesday. I have scheduled the lab on that day.
Today in class we talked about A Knight's Tale and watched the Heath Ledger version. On Friday it is all about contrasting images in film and literature.
HW: Please finish reading A Knight's Tale. If you lost the printed on that I gave you, look for it online. It can be found easily.
Today in class we talked about A Knight's Tale and watched the Heath Ledger version. On Friday it is all about contrasting images in film and literature.
HW: Please finish reading A Knight's Tale. If you lost the printed on that I gave you, look for it online. It can be found easily.
WOS:
Please memorize the following for next Tuesday:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream:
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
WOS:
Take the scene assigned today in class on pg 83 (lines 278-292) and convert them to match a certain new take on Hamlet. For example:
How would you write these as a-
Sci-Fi film
A children's story
A Musical
A war drama
How would you write these as a-
Sci-Fi film
A children's story
A Musical
A war drama
Brit Lit:
HW: Please read pgs 1-9 in A Knight's Tale. Today in class we finish our 1st draft of our pilgrimage stories. Most of us will be in the lab Thursday to type these.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
WOS:
Today we read our Voltemand lines as newscasters. I have posted some online. I am sorry about the audio on the 1st one :-( I had my finger on the mic.
After lunch, I defined Stress and Inflection. I broke the class into 2 groups and asked you to find 2 examples on each, and change the line based on you stress and/or inflection.
No HW so Rob can save the universe in the new Halo expansion. :-)
After lunch, I defined Stress and Inflection. I broke the class into 2 groups and asked you to find 2 examples on each, and change the line based on you stress and/or inflection.
No HW so Rob can save the universe in the new Halo expansion. :-)
Brit Lit:
Today in class we discussed symbols. The majority of the block was spent construction your symbolic representation collage of yourself.
Block B took a quiz on The Pardoner's Tale. A block will have this on Wed- so please review the story.
Wed, we will be writing the 1st draft of you pilgrimage. For HW tonight, please have ready an experience required you to travel a distance in which you learned a lesson about yourself.
Block B took a quiz on The Pardoner's Tale. A block will have this on Wed- so please review the story.
Wed, we will be writing the 1st draft of you pilgrimage. For HW tonight, please have ready an experience required you to travel a distance in which you learned a lesson about yourself.
Monday, September 21, 2009
WOS:
Today we compared yet another take on Hamlet via the Kenneth Branagh version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsn9opKuWbs
Good class discussion on the many differences. I think how you picked up on the use of white in the film. It def was a strange contrast to some of the "darker" versions.
This week we will be looking at stress, tone and inflection. In particular, how each can alter the meaning of the play.
HW: Please take a look at Voltemand's speech on pg 71 (Act 2 Scene 2) and be prepared to give it as a news report. Focus on how it would be read as a modern news story on the state of the nation. We will present these in class Tuesday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsn9opKuWbs
Good class discussion on the many differences. I think how you picked up on the use of white in the film. It def was a strange contrast to some of the "darker" versions.
This week we will be looking at stress, tone and inflection. In particular, how each can alter the meaning of the play.
HW: Please take a look at Voltemand's speech on pg 71 (Act 2 Scene 2) and be prepared to give it as a news report. Focus on how it would be read as a modern news story on the state of the nation. We will present these in class Tuesday.
Brit Lit:
Today in class I assigned the Pilgrimige Paper:
Make Your Own Pilgrimage…..
Over the next week, we will be reading a collection of “tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer.
In class we will be looking at his style, and be looking at what a pilgrimage is, and why you would go on one. Duplicating a writer’s style is one of the hardest tasks that I will ask you to do. It will require close examination of the language and they way Chaucer tells the tale.
Part 1: The Prologue Poem In this section, you will write a poem to begin your piece. In your poem you must: Give yourself a title as a pilgrim
Write 4-6 Lines.
Emulate Chaucer
Part II: The Symbolic Representation Provide a hand drawn picture, a collage, or a brief descriptive piece which clearly gives a symbolic representation of who you are. Remember, symbols are common images, which are used to represent much larger things.
Part III: The Tale You will write about a pilgrimage that you have been on.
In your Tale, you must: Write 3 well written paragraphs
Write a tale that includes, Characters, a plot, a setting, a climax, and a conclusion
There is a clear lesson that you learn by the end of the tale.
Due Date:_________
Make Your Own Pilgrimage…..
Over the next week, we will be reading a collection of “tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer.
In class we will be looking at his style, and be looking at what a pilgrimage is, and why you would go on one. Duplicating a writer’s style is one of the hardest tasks that I will ask you to do. It will require close examination of the language and they way Chaucer tells the tale.
Part 1: The Prologue Poem In this section, you will write a poem to begin your piece. In your poem you must: Give yourself a title as a pilgrim
Write 4-6 Lines.
Emulate Chaucer
Part II: The Symbolic Representation Provide a hand drawn picture, a collage, or a brief descriptive piece which clearly gives a symbolic representation of who you are. Remember, symbols are common images, which are used to represent much larger things.
Part III: The Tale You will write about a pilgrimage that you have been on.
In your Tale, you must: Write 3 well written paragraphs
Write a tale that includes, Characters, a plot, a setting, a climax, and a conclusion
There is a clear lesson that you learn by the end of the tale.
Due Date:_________
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