Reading the last bit of Midsummer - silent AND aloud with people
Working on news article or social media page - GET IT IN
And then, get an Exodus book from the other room on the brown shelves and start in.
Read a bit, then:
Make some predictions about the book.
Research the term exodus.
And you can start reading it if you like.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Act 4, Sc 1 - events
Titania is back to normal. Oberon returns her senses. (because he has the changeling)
Puck returns Bottom to normal.
Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena wake up with Theseus and Hippolyta there and Egeus is with them.
There appears to be more switchery!
Theseus AGREES that Demetrius should have Helena!
The young lovers all seem confused and Theseus says they will all 6 get married together in the temple.
Bottom stumbles out and looks around for his play to begin
we see once again the chaos that is caused by magic
we also see our theme of love being fickle (changeable)
we also see our theme of manipulating the one you love (Oberon)
we also get a little good comedy from the arrogant Bottom in “ass mode”
- pompous means self-important, over the top and puffed up
- we also get to see some of the sense of the title - the lovers wake up feeling like they’ve been dreaming, Bottom feels like he’s been dreaming, Oberon tells Puck that they will feel this way - comparing LOVE and DREAMS?
Titania is back to normal. Oberon returns her senses. (because he has the changeling)
Puck returns Bottom to normal.
Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena wake up with Theseus and Hippolyta there and Egeus is with them.
There appears to be more switchery!
Theseus AGREES that Demetrius should have Helena!
The young lovers all seem confused and Theseus says they will all 6 get married together in the temple.
Bottom stumbles out and looks around for his play to begin
we see once again the chaos that is caused by magic
we also see our theme of love being fickle (changeable)
we also see our theme of manipulating the one you love (Oberon)
we also get a little good comedy from the arrogant Bottom in “ass mode”
- pompous means self-important, over the top and puffed up
- we also get to see some of the sense of the title - the lovers wake up feeling like they’ve been dreaming, Bottom feels like he’s been dreaming, Oberon tells Puck that they will feel this way - comparing LOVE and DREAMS?
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Cause and Effect - when one person does X, that creates a response, which could be completely unintended
In the play, the situation is this:
Oberon is angry at his wife (Titania)
Somehow, that makes Hermia sad.
Cause and effect can create comedy and often does so in sitcoms, movies, books, etc
HOWEVER, cause and effect can also create terrible situations.
We want to be able to think about what Cause and Effect means and be able to consider how powerful it is. Wouldn’t it be a GREAT essay topic from which to build a thesis?
Cause - something to DONE or SAID or SET UP
Effect - that something results in an effect or consequence
OFTEN that effect is not planned OR it is completely surprising or TERRIBLE
In stories, we see COMPLICATIONS that arise from Cause and Effect.
In life we see the same things.
It is a common concept in literature and you could apply it as a way of thinking about anything.
Exercise in Cause and Effect
I will write down a scenario and you will jot down THREE possible unintended effects.
Example - Courtney gets a bloody nose in class. (cause)
What COULD happen because of that?
A clever way of coming up with an effect is trying to find something that could happen that is not obvious - the effect might be complex or tricky or take some real ASSOCIATING (you might have to really think about why that effect came from that cause)
Effect - Mr. Lobb was arrested.
Obvious? Lobb punched her.
More unusual? Lobb used Black Lobb Magic
More complex?
A chain reaction - a series of cause and effect relationships that take us into unexpected story areas.
In our lives we OFTEN forget about cause and effect and we behave in ways that indicate we are ONLY thinking about RIGHT NOW.
IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION (now pleasure)
Here is the difference between a former addict whose life fell apart and Mr. Lobb:
Former addict wanted things NOW. He wanted fun NOW. He wanted a good time NOW.
He didn’t really think about long term or later. He was immersed in the moment.
Mr. Lobb was more focused on “what will happen later?”
This Mr. Lobb approach has its own problems too. DELAYED GRATIFICATION
Looking at the idea of Cause and Effect can allow us to think about things in a really smart way. We can analyse ourselves.
Why do we analyse characters in stories in English in school?
Maybe the things are happening in the characters’ minds are realistic.
We want students to MAKE CONNECTIONS between the stories and the characters they read about and their own lives.
In the play, the situation is this:
Oberon is angry at his wife (Titania)
Somehow, that makes Hermia sad.
Cause and effect can create comedy and often does so in sitcoms, movies, books, etc
HOWEVER, cause and effect can also create terrible situations.
We want to be able to think about what Cause and Effect means and be able to consider how powerful it is. Wouldn’t it be a GREAT essay topic from which to build a thesis?
Cause - something to DONE or SAID or SET UP
Effect - that something results in an effect or consequence
OFTEN that effect is not planned OR it is completely surprising or TERRIBLE
In stories, we see COMPLICATIONS that arise from Cause and Effect.
In life we see the same things.
It is a common concept in literature and you could apply it as a way of thinking about anything.
Exercise in Cause and Effect
I will write down a scenario and you will jot down THREE possible unintended effects.
Example - Courtney gets a bloody nose in class. (cause)
What COULD happen because of that?
A clever way of coming up with an effect is trying to find something that could happen that is not obvious - the effect might be complex or tricky or take some real ASSOCIATING (you might have to really think about why that effect came from that cause)
Effect - Mr. Lobb was arrested.
Obvious? Lobb punched her.
More unusual? Lobb used Black Lobb Magic
More complex?
A chain reaction - a series of cause and effect relationships that take us into unexpected story areas.
In our lives we OFTEN forget about cause and effect and we behave in ways that indicate we are ONLY thinking about RIGHT NOW.
IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION (now pleasure)
Here is the difference between a former addict whose life fell apart and Mr. Lobb:
Former addict wanted things NOW. He wanted fun NOW. He wanted a good time NOW.
He didn’t really think about long term or later. He was immersed in the moment.
Mr. Lobb was more focused on “what will happen later?”
This Mr. Lobb approach has its own problems too. DELAYED GRATIFICATION
Looking at the idea of Cause and Effect can allow us to think about things in a really smart way. We can analyse ourselves.
Why do we analyse characters in stories in English in school?
Maybe the things are happening in the characters’ minds are realistic.
We want students to MAKE CONNECTIONS between the stories and the characters they read about and their own lives.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
On the Social Media Page, you would expect to see:
bio info
photos the depict something about the character’s life, ideas, friends...
tweets/statuses/hashtags/memes (Internet phenomena/trends/etc)(how would that character respond to, or use, memes?)
what do people tweet about?
things that they think are funny, things that they do, things that interest them, make them angry, etc
turn things from the play into tweets
interactions with OTHER CHARACTERS
News Article
MAN FOUND IN WOODS WITH HEAD OF ASS!
LOCAL COUPLE FLEES ANGRY FATHER
GIRL MISSING
WEATHER PATTERNS UNUSUAL FOR SPRING
FAIRY QUEEN’S LATEST FIND
FAIRY KING INDICTED IN STRANGE LOVE MATCH
CHECKLIST:
The Lede - who, what, where, when
how and why in body
quotations from witnesses or parties involved
expert testimony or opinion
summary or spin off at the end - new area or new comment from the end
description is good
refers to things in play
uses characters from the play
gets specific - details are included
style and structure
bio info
photos the depict something about the character’s life, ideas, friends...
tweets/statuses/hashtags/memes (Internet phenomena/trends/etc)(how would that character respond to, or use, memes?)
what do people tweet about?
things that they think are funny, things that they do, things that interest them, make them angry, etc
turn things from the play into tweets
interactions with OTHER CHARACTERS
News Article
MAN FOUND IN WOODS WITH HEAD OF ASS!
LOCAL COUPLE FLEES ANGRY FATHER
GIRL MISSING
WEATHER PATTERNS UNUSUAL FOR SPRING
FAIRY QUEEN’S LATEST FIND
FAIRY KING INDICTED IN STRANGE LOVE MATCH
CHECKLIST:
The Lede - who, what, where, when
how and why in body
quotations from witnesses or parties involved
expert testimony or opinion
summary or spin off at the end - new area or new comment from the end
description is good
refers to things in play
uses characters from the play
gets specific - details are included
style and structure
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Key Events in Act 3, Sc 2
What makes an event KEY?
Something that changes the flow of events is KEY.
Something that changes the characters (specifically the MAIN characters) is KEY.
The bigger the PROBLEM, the more “things” it affects, the more we know it’s KEY.
Something that changes relationships.
The addition of a new character.
What key things happened in the rest of Act 3, Sc 2?
Puck mimics the voices of Lysander and Demetrius and sets them up to follow him around, thinking they’re going to fight each other - he is just having a laugh
they are angry at each other because they were both dosed and they now love Helena - they are fighting over loving her - this is ironic, because she thinks they’re lying to hurt her
Hermia can’t believe what Lysander is saying - he seems to hate her now
Helena assumes that Hermia is in on the mean joke that she thinks the two guys are playing
Lysander makes really unpleasant (and racist) comments about Hermia’s looks
Puck tries to fix all this drama because Oberon isn’t impressed with the results
Puck is going to re-apply the love potion and get people back with the right lover
WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT LOVE? - wouldn’t this make a great question for an essay?
love can be manipulated - see THIS example
love is confusing - see THIS example
love is a privilege
love can be seen to be fake
love is blind
love is very specific to each person
Mr. Lobb - I think that this is showing us a little bit about how love is in our minds more than we think.
A question arises - what is the difference between LOVE and LUST.
Lust is wanting something?
Love is you actually like someone.
Lust is a sexual attraction to someone.
Love is a longer term “thing” - a relationship
There’s a HUGE different between love and lust.
Lust is physical AND mental.
Love is deeper and more about feelings in our minds. (and physical)
Lust might be more about YOU and love might be more about THEM.
Key Events in Act 3, Sc 2
What makes an event KEY?
Something that changes the flow of events is KEY.
Something that changes the characters (specifically the MAIN characters) is KEY.
The bigger the PROBLEM, the more “things” it affects, the more we know it’s KEY.
Something that changes relationships.
The addition of a new character.
What key things happened in the rest of Act 3, Sc 2?
Puck mimics the voices of Lysander and Demetrius and sets them up to follow him around, thinking they’re going to fight each other - he is just having a laugh
they are angry at each other because they were both dosed and they now love Helena - they are fighting over loving her - this is ironic, because she thinks they’re lying to hurt her
Hermia can’t believe what Lysander is saying - he seems to hate her now
Helena assumes that Hermia is in on the mean joke that she thinks the two guys are playing
Lysander makes really unpleasant (and racist) comments about Hermia’s looks
Puck tries to fix all this drama because Oberon isn’t impressed with the results
Puck is going to re-apply the love potion and get people back with the right lover
WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT LOVE? - wouldn’t this make a great question for an essay?
love can be manipulated - see THIS example
love is confusing - see THIS example
love is a privilege
love can be seen to be fake
love is blind
love is very specific to each person
Mr. Lobb - I think that this is showing us a little bit about how love is in our minds more than we think.
A question arises - what is the difference between LOVE and LUST.
Lust is wanting something?
Love is you actually like someone.
Lust is a sexual attraction to someone.
Love is a longer term “thing” - a relationship
There’s a HUGE different between love and lust.
Lust is physical AND mental.
Love is deeper and more about feelings in our minds. (and physical)
Lust might be more about YOU and love might be more about THEM.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
ENG1D
Reading from A Midsummer Night’s Dream aloud in groups from where we left off in Act 3, Sc 2
Begin collecting notes for your social media project and your news article.
I will be checking for your rough work (rough notes) around these two assignments.
Think about what you will need in order to do them:
For the social media project you will need to know what your character does in the play, what he/she thinks, why he/she is doing whatever he/she is doing (motivations), how he/she relates to other characters, what he/she wants (dramatic need), etc. You might also want to collect images that can be used to help illustrate elements of your character’s life and personality.
For the news article, you need to follow the pattern that we examined yesterday, and then consider how to describe the events of the plot, and the characters, in a way that will allow your article to be exciting reading and get to the front page. Attaching a really good photo to this article as an anchor for your information would be a great idea.
PUCK
ACTIONS: he turns Bottom’s head into the head of an ass (a plot point or two)
THINKING: (the stuff based around what he says)
MOTIVATIONS: create chaos - do pranks - serve Oberon
RELATIONSHIPS:
DRAMATIC NEED: attention
You want to Tweet and FB things that are about the subject without being too “on the nose”
News Article
rough notes:
WHO
WHAT
WHERE
WHEN
DETAILS - WHY AND HOW
INTERVIEWS
EXPERTS
WHAT NEXT?
All news articles start off with THE LEDE -
Act 3, Sc 2
Who’s been dosed with LOVE POTION?
Lysander -> now loves Helena
Titania -> now loves Bottom (ass head version)
Demetrius -> now loves Helena
What is a duel?
A duel is a fight to the death over HONOUR
There is a situation brewing where we could see some true suffering out of this problem with the love potion - a duel is threatened between Lysander and Demetrius
Read on into Act 4, Sc 1
Reading from A Midsummer Night’s Dream aloud in groups from where we left off in Act 3, Sc 2
Begin collecting notes for your social media project and your news article.
I will be checking for your rough work (rough notes) around these two assignments.
Think about what you will need in order to do them:
For the social media project you will need to know what your character does in the play, what he/she thinks, why he/she is doing whatever he/she is doing (motivations), how he/she relates to other characters, what he/she wants (dramatic need), etc. You might also want to collect images that can be used to help illustrate elements of your character’s life and personality.
For the news article, you need to follow the pattern that we examined yesterday, and then consider how to describe the events of the plot, and the characters, in a way that will allow your article to be exciting reading and get to the front page. Attaching a really good photo to this article as an anchor for your information would be a great idea.
PUCK
ACTIONS: he turns Bottom’s head into the head of an ass (a plot point or two)
THINKING: (the stuff based around what he says)
MOTIVATIONS: create chaos - do pranks - serve Oberon
RELATIONSHIPS:
DRAMATIC NEED: attention
You want to Tweet and FB things that are about the subject without being too “on the nose”
News Article
rough notes:
WHO
WHAT
WHERE
WHEN
DETAILS - WHY AND HOW
INTERVIEWS
EXPERTS
WHAT NEXT?
All news articles start off with THE LEDE -
Act 3, Sc 2
Who’s been dosed with LOVE POTION?
Lysander -> now loves Helena
Titania -> now loves Bottom (ass head version)
Demetrius -> now loves Helena
What is a duel?
A duel is a fight to the death over HONOUR
There is a situation brewing where we could see some true suffering out of this problem with the love potion - a duel is threatened between Lysander and Demetrius
Read on into Act 4, Sc 1
Monday, April 15, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - ENG1D
Assignments Thus Far:
Choose FIVE characters to describe in brief - (thumbnail sketches)
Social Media Profile for ONE character
OSSLT Skill - Write a news article about ONE of the major events of the play.
News Article Format
A news article follows a VERY specific pattern.
This is often referred to as the INVERTED PYRAMID.
(however, it isn’t 3D, so it’s just a triangle)
This pattern is a way of organizing information to fit the typical news form
On the OSSLT, you are given TWO things - a HEADLINE and a PHOTO
The challenge of this assignment - HOW DO I FILL ALL THOSE BLANKS?
Basically, we need to know how to implement the information from the HEADLINE and the PHOTO into an article that we make up ourselves.
The Inverted Pyramid
First few paragraphs answer WHO, WHEN, WHERE and WHAT IS HAPPENING - this is called THE LEDE
The BODY of the piece is made up of all the paragraphs that come after that (and there could be many)
This is the hard part
This is where we include DETAILS - what are the details? What would you actually write in here?
Learning these pieces of the BODY gives you something to structure your article.
QUOTATIONS from the characters that you invented who are in the story (from the photo and/or the headlines) - EYEWITNESSES or PARTICIPANTS - you actually need to give them names to get marks
EXPERT INPUT from people commenting on the event/story/whatever - ie a psychologist or teacher from the “guest speaker” article - another perspective is given and this can flesh out your article and give it a more important feel
HOW and WHY - you explain the event and maybe something about the reasoning
BACKGROUND - how did it get this way? What happened before?
Where is this going? CONSEQUENCES or RESULTS or RAMIFICATIONS
In general, you can also fill in the Who, What happened, When and Where with more specific details in the body
The LAST PARAGRAPH is the conclusion or summary and in this last piece we need to somehow find a CAPPER that spins us out into another thought or gives us a little idea to take away.
The trick is, what the heck does this mean? It often means introducing some added element of the entire subject
eg in the guest speaker story, you might end by saying, students in GDCI will be having many more interesting assemblies over the next weeks where they will blah blah blah
WHAT MAKES A NEWS ARTICLE GOOD OR NOT? (newsworthiness)
Something is newsworthy if it is interesting to a large number of people (might not include YOU)
Something is newsworthy if it is scandalous or scary or crazy or disturbing or unusual and doesn’t fit into the regular day to day
Something is newsworthy if it involves celebrity or politicians
Some topics are automatically newsworthy - WAR, SCIENCE, sports (reaally?), fashion, NATURAL DISASTER, ECONOMY, cars, CRIME, religion, etc (small caps are human interest stories)
A very dramatic and life or death, very emotional and impactful event is more likely to be in the news.
PLUS - A reading
You will need to choose a piece to read aloud.
I care not which piece you read aloud, so long as it has a MINIMUM of 10 lines.
NOW, Demetrius is chasing Hermia EXACTLY like Helena was chasing HIM!
He is a complete HYPOCRITE! (and a dirtbag!)
SO, now Lysander has been potion-struck and he loves Helena.
Helena is still in love with Demetrius.
Demetrius loves Hermia.
Hermia still loves Lysander.
There is no logic at work in the minds of these teenagers!
We are seeing something that is true, thanks to the crazy potion -
The FICKLENESS OF LOVE - (fickle means ever-changing)
Assignments Thus Far:
Choose FIVE characters to describe in brief - (thumbnail sketches)
Social Media Profile for ONE character
OSSLT Skill - Write a news article about ONE of the major events of the play.
News Article Format
A news article follows a VERY specific pattern.
This is often referred to as the INVERTED PYRAMID.
(however, it isn’t 3D, so it’s just a triangle)
This pattern is a way of organizing information to fit the typical news form
On the OSSLT, you are given TWO things - a HEADLINE and a PHOTO
The challenge of this assignment - HOW DO I FILL ALL THOSE BLANKS?
Basically, we need to know how to implement the information from the HEADLINE and the PHOTO into an article that we make up ourselves.
The Inverted Pyramid
First few paragraphs answer WHO, WHEN, WHERE and WHAT IS HAPPENING - this is called THE LEDE
The BODY of the piece is made up of all the paragraphs that come after that (and there could be many)
This is the hard part
This is where we include DETAILS - what are the details? What would you actually write in here?
Learning these pieces of the BODY gives you something to structure your article.
QUOTATIONS from the characters that you invented who are in the story (from the photo and/or the headlines) - EYEWITNESSES or PARTICIPANTS - you actually need to give them names to get marks
EXPERT INPUT from people commenting on the event/story/whatever - ie a psychologist or teacher from the “guest speaker” article - another perspective is given and this can flesh out your article and give it a more important feel
HOW and WHY - you explain the event and maybe something about the reasoning
BACKGROUND - how did it get this way? What happened before?
Where is this going? CONSEQUENCES or RESULTS or RAMIFICATIONS
In general, you can also fill in the Who, What happened, When and Where with more specific details in the body
The LAST PARAGRAPH is the conclusion or summary and in this last piece we need to somehow find a CAPPER that spins us out into another thought or gives us a little idea to take away.
The trick is, what the heck does this mean? It often means introducing some added element of the entire subject
eg in the guest speaker story, you might end by saying, students in GDCI will be having many more interesting assemblies over the next weeks where they will blah blah blah
WHAT MAKES A NEWS ARTICLE GOOD OR NOT? (newsworthiness)
Something is newsworthy if it is interesting to a large number of people (might not include YOU)
Something is newsworthy if it is scandalous or scary or crazy or disturbing or unusual and doesn’t fit into the regular day to day
Something is newsworthy if it involves celebrity or politicians
Some topics are automatically newsworthy - WAR, SCIENCE, sports (reaally?), fashion, NATURAL DISASTER, ECONOMY, cars, CRIME, religion, etc (small caps are human interest stories)
A very dramatic and life or death, very emotional and impactful event is more likely to be in the news.
PLUS - A reading
You will need to choose a piece to read aloud.
I care not which piece you read aloud, so long as it has a MINIMUM of 10 lines.
NOW, Demetrius is chasing Hermia EXACTLY like Helena was chasing HIM!
He is a complete HYPOCRITE! (and a dirtbag!)
SO, now Lysander has been potion-struck and he loves Helena.
Helena is still in love with Demetrius.
Demetrius loves Hermia.
Hermia still loves Lysander.
There is no logic at work in the minds of these teenagers!
We are seeing something that is true, thanks to the crazy potion -
The FICKLENESS OF LOVE - (fickle means ever-changing)
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