From last class: Please respond to the quotes on the board. Think about what they reveal about Max or Daniel or some recurring image/theme in the novel. This is the time to practice some literary analysis.
Slides: 11: Rose's house; 12: Bertrand; 13: Louvre from the garden; 14: Winged victory; 15: Louvre Grand Gallery after evacuation; 16: Winged Victory being evacuated; 17: Fanny Reinach @ start of war
Some creative writing
p. 43: Pictures at an Exhibition Promenade (walking between paintings), Gnome (first painting seen), The Old Castle (next painting)
"This is the closest you can ever get to that exhibition. They say all of Hartmann's paintings have been lost, so there is only the music."
What do you see?
Friday, April 26, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
PAAE: 24-56
Start with slideshow: slides 1-10 (skip 9)
Free write: How does absence register in our awareness? When we miss something or someone, how do we know that?
Board work: Please respond to the quotes on the board. Think about what they reveal about Max or Daniel or some recurring image/theme in the novel. This is the time to practice some literary analysis.
Free write: How does absence register in our awareness? When we miss something or someone, how do we know that?
When Max notices his curiosity about Rose, it comes through the hot water he misses in his shower, from the outline of light cast from her window at night, from the empty chair at meals.
By what means do you measure what is not there? How is that someone or something known in its absence? Think about the phrase “the room was empty” and think of what an empty room contains that makes us know it as “empty”. Use all your senses. If you closed your eyes, for example, what would tell you about a room and it’s being empty?
Board work: Please respond to the quotes on the board. Think about what they reveal about Max or Daniel or some recurring image/theme in the novel. This is the time to practice some literary analysis.
Monday, April 22, 2013
More training: The character's voice
How do you as a writer capture someone else's voice? What make one voice different from another?
Break out the headbands and the sneakers, it's time for some creative writing training.
Break out the headbands and the sneakers, it's time for some creative writing training.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
PAAE: 1-23
Free write:
In what way does memory influence our identity?
Discussion
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. — Degas
First section: The 3-read (1. class, 2. silent, 3. class)
What kind of tone does the narrator create?
What is your dominant impression of the narrator?
What kinds of details does he convey?
Where can we find a sense of loss in this section?
Let's look at some artwork: slides 1-6
1. Let's look at the narrator and how he is telling his story.
4. What insights about the family do we gain from Rose, our first outsider looking in?
5. When does Max speak in art & music? (find specific examples) What does this reveal about his character?
In what way does memory influence our identity?
Discussion
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. — Degas
First section: The 3-read (1. class, 2. silent, 3. class)
What kind of tone does the narrator create?
What is your dominant impression of the narrator?
What kinds of details does he convey?
Where can we find a sense of loss in this section?
Let's look at some artwork: slides 1-6
1. Let's look at the narrator and how he is telling his story.
- Tone?
- Dominant Impression?
- What details are conveyed and how?
4. What insights about the family do we gain from Rose, our first outsider looking in?
5. When does Max speak in art & music? (find specific examples) What does this reveal about his character?
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Pictures at an Exhibition begins
Welcome back! Quick check-in: give me one word to describe your spring break. ONE WORD!
A look at the remainder of the semester: B Block/F Block
Writing fun.
A look at the remainder of the semester: B Block/F Block
Writing fun.
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