Lord of the Flies Funnies...

Brit Lit:

We watched a modern version of the play Macbeth. 
This can be viewed for free here on the PBS site:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/shakespeare-uncovered/blog/macbeth/

Journal Prompt:  Please compare and contrast the differences between the modern film and the class is Polanski version.  Which did you like better?  Why?  Please give at least three specific examples to support your opinion.                                                              1 Page

Have a good 3 day weekend....

WOS:

Today:

We went to the computer lab and typed the first draft to your She's the Man Parody paper.  These are due Tuesday.

We will have a unit test on Wed. of next week.

Comp Lit II:

Today:

We took the exam for Lord of the Flies.

Brit Lit:

Today:

I passed back all graded work.  I gave you your term 1 grades.

What is grosser than gross?  A 2013 version of the Macbeth Stew...ewwww!

We read act IV and continued to discuss the power of the final moment of suspense.

HW: Macbeth Movies are due Friday!

WOS:

I collected permission forms for the field trip.  Please get these in if you want to go.

I broke you into 5 groups and tasked you with generating 20 multiple choice questions for the play.

We talked about term grades.  In a nutshell, those that are working hard are rewarded.  Those that are not putting in a full effort had grades that reflected this.  I passed back all work owed.

We played Who Wants to Win a Pizza Party?

Lit. Comp II:

I collected your symbolic representations.

We placed these on the back board and we each tried to guess the person connected with the symbols.  Congrats to Mikayla in guessing 22 correctly!

We reviewed the end of the novel.

We played Who Wants to Win a Pizza Party?  (We should never speak of this again....)

I gave you the essay questions for the test Friday.  You may bring in outlines to help you answer theses.

Brit Lit:

Today: Work day #3 of 3.  You had the block to film your Macbeh projects.

I passed back many of your assignments.  Sorry that it took so long to get some of those things back.  Thanks for your patience.

HW:  Projects due Friday.

WOS:

Today:

Journal prompt:  Please update me on how you feel class is going for you.  Is Shakespeare getting easier?  Are you understanding it on your own?  What could I do better as your teacher?  1/2 page

We finished She's the Man.  Please begin work on your paper.  I will be afterschool Wed. for anyone needing help.

We reviewed acts 2-3, looking specifically at the love triangles.

HW:  Please read act 4.

Lit. Comp. II:

Today:

I collected your journals.

We review ch 7-8.

We took a quiz on 7-8

We looked at the biblical connections to the novel.  I passed out a sheet that explained this.

We looked at how pop culture has been influenced by the novel.  I shared the U2 song, Shadows and Tall Trees.

HW:  Please read ch 9-10.  We will be finishing to book for Thurday.  Tonight- please take an extra hard look at Simon and what his role is in the novel..

Shakespeare:

Today:

I assigned the paper for the 12th Night.

We finished any remaining presentations of your songs.

We watched the movie She's the Man and took notes on the similarities and differences to the play.

HW: Please read act 3 and be ready for a quiz Tuesday.

Comp Lit. II:

Today:

We did a short compare and contrast looking at the novel, the 1963 BW version, and the new color version for Lord of the Flies.

We worked on your symbolism worksheet, completing the next set based on your reading last week.

We will be working towards finishing the novel by this Thursday.  I will be collecting your journal prompts Tuesday.  Please have them ready to pass in.

HW:  Please read ch 7-8 for HW. 

Brit Lit:

Today:

We used fake blood and acted out Act III, sc IV. 

We looked at some of the 1,700 words that Shakespeare is credited with inventing or using for the first time.

Journal Prompt:  Please choose 10 of the listed words that Shakespeare invented and use them in a story describing your Halloween.  Please circle each word used in your journal.  1 page.

Words Shakespeare Invented

 

academe	accused	addiction	advertising	amazement
arouse	assassination	backing	bandit	bedroom
beached	besmirch	birthplace	blanket	bloodstained
barefaced	blushing	bet	bump	buzzer
caked	cater	champion	circumstantial	cold-blooded
compromise	courtship	countless	critic	dauntless
dawn	deafening	discontent	dishearten	drugged
dwindle	epileptic	equivocal	elbow	excitement
exposure	eyeball	fashionable	fixture	flawed
frugal	generous	gloomy	gossip	green-eyed
gust	hint	hobnob	hurried	impede
impartial	invulnerable	jaded	label	lackluster
laughable	lonely	lower	luggage	lustrous
madcap	majestic	marketable	metamorphize	mimic
monumental	moonbeam	mountaineer	negotiate	noiseless
obscene	obsequiously	ode	olympian	outbreak
panders	pedant	premeditated	puking	radiance
rant	remorseless	savagery	scuffle	secure
skim milk	submerge	summit	swagger	torture
tranquil	undress	unreal	varied	vaulting
worthless	zany	gnarled	grovel

I gave you the time after lunch to work on constructing your script for the Macbeth Movie Project.  We will be filming these Monday and Tuesday, so if you did not finish the script, please have it done for Monday.

WOS:

Today:

I gave you a last minute work day to wrap up your song projects, as most of you had small technical issues that needed to be resolved.

We were able to watch most of the projects.  Overall, you did a great job bringing this 400 year old music back to life.

Journal Prompt:  Please choose 10 of the listed words that Shakespeare invented and use them in a story describing your Halloween.  Please circle each word used in your journal.  1 page.


I referenced you next paper.  We will be watching the movie She's the Man on Monday and you will be writing a paper connecting the plot to the story of The Twelfth Night.  More on Monday.  Here is a sneak peek at the assignment:

She’s the Man Parodies the Bard

 Often, literature has an indirect impact on pop culture.  Shakespeare is of course of no exception.  The film She’s the Man borrows more than small doses of the story from The 12^th Night.  In fact, one could argue that the movie succeeds strictly as a direct parody of the play itself.

 

In a well written 5 paragraph essay, I would like you to answer the following questions:  Does the movie She’s the Man successfully parody the play The 12^th Night?  While the tendency will be to answer yes, I would also encourage those to voice disagreement.  Please examine not just the names, but more importantly, the function of the relationships in both stories.  Does the film require the play to fully enjoy the story?  Please have a clear thesis, and make sure to back this up with direct examples from both.

 

 

 

 

Comp. Lit. II:

Today:
I broke you into small groups and asked you to discuss the titles of the chapters.  Next you needed to come up with an alternative name for the first 5 chapters and list 2-3 sentences justifying your choice.

We watched 25 minutes of a modern re-telling of the novel.  We talked about if modernizing the story and changing the plot works.

Journal Prompt:  Please write a 1/2 page movie review on the modern version of Lord of the Flies.  Did you like it?  Why or why not?  Please give at least three examples to support your review.

Have a good weekend.  I will be collecting journal prompt 11-20 on Tuesday.  Please make sure that they are complete and ready to be passed in.

Today we celebrated the oral tradition of storytelling.  I told my ghost story from teaching in Ireland.  I hope that you had fun being scared.  Happy Halloween!