1. Sentence fun
2. Check props
3. Introduce vocab
4. Let's get playing
Discussion Questions
Scene 1
In two groups, act out scene one. Note that the opening scene takes place on a ship at sea during a terrible storm. (Why is it significant that the play begins with a storm at sea?) How can the fury of the waves and wind be shown on stage? Be sure to address the following:
a. How do you perform the first stage direction?
b. How can actors' movements suggest a ship caught in a storm?
c. How might you convey the sense of fear & crisis? These are people who are desperately concerned to save their lives. Do they panic or are they well disciplined?
d. What simple props do you need to convey the scene.
As time permits:
Scene 2
1. This scene opens with Miranda's compassion for the people caught in the tempest. Some productions show Prospero as a powerful magician; others, a quiet man. How would you stage the first sight of Prospero and Miranda to greatest dramatic effect?
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Frankenstein Research Project!
Our final piece of work on our favorite novel.
Remember to check the syllabus for the time-line and due date of this project. We will be working in the library all this week, so please meet there for class.
Remember to check the syllabus for the time-line and due date of this project. We will be working in the library all this week, so please meet there for class.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Frankenstein: The end =-(
1. Finish up debate!
2. Review sentence patterns thus far.
Discussion questions
1. What's the difference between regret & remorse?
2. In chapter 7, find ways in which Victor & the creature have become identical.
3. Who are we the reader meant to sympathize with?
2. Review sentence patterns thus far.
Discussion questions
1. What's the difference between regret & remorse?
2. In chapter 7, find ways in which Victor & the creature have become identical.
3. Who are we the reader meant to sympathize with?
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Frankenstein, Vol 3, Chpts 4-6
1. Learn a new sentence!
2. Check books and vocab
3. The great debate!
2. Check books and vocab
3. The great debate!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Frankenstein: Vol. 3, Chpts 1-3
1. New Sentence
2. Check books and vocab whilst you free write: Must a person experience desperation to know the true meaning of joy? Must a person know hunger to really understand the concept of being full? In other words, must we experience opposite emotions to truly understand life?
Discussion Questions
1. Where does Victor travel in Chpts 1-2? In what way does the journey further develop Victor's character? Clerval's?
2. Close reading p. 168-169. Let's look at tone and mood
3. At the close of Chpt 2 Victor says, "I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question, but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil, that made my heart sick in my bosom" (169). Remember that Victor is telling a story. Using only this passage, what does Victor want the listener/reader to think of him?
4. At the start of Chpt 3 the creature says, "Shall each man ... find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn" (172). Is the creature's argument a reasonable one? If so, in what way does this develop Victor's character and the creature's?
2. Check books and vocab whilst you free write: Must a person experience desperation to know the true meaning of joy? Must a person know hunger to really understand the concept of being full? In other words, must we experience opposite emotions to truly understand life?
Discussion Questions
1. Where does Victor travel in Chpts 1-2? In what way does the journey further develop Victor's character? Clerval's?
2. Close reading p. 168-169. Let's look at tone and mood
3. At the close of Chpt 2 Victor says, "I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question, but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil, that made my heart sick in my bosom" (169). Remember that Victor is telling a story. Using only this passage, what does Victor want the listener/reader to think of him?
4. At the start of Chpt 3 the creature says, "Shall each man ... find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn" (172). Is the creature's argument a reasonable one? If so, in what way does this develop Victor's character and the creature's?
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Frankenstein Vol. 2, Chpts 8-9
1. Sentence
2. Book & vocab review (while students are free writing)
Discussion Questions
1. Free write: "As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathised with and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none, and related to none" (131).
In what ways are you like the creature?
2. Now, let's look at Erikson and how the creature and Victor compare.Where are the two men on the scale of development? What are the effects of their knowledge?
3. Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, Sorrow of Werter
2. Book & vocab review (while students are free writing)
Discussion Questions
1. Free write: "As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathised with and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none, and related to none" (131).
In what ways are you like the creature?
2. Now, let's look at Erikson and how the creature and Victor compare.Where are the two men on the scale of development? What are the effects of their knowledge?
3. Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, Sorrow of Werter
Friday, September 17, 2010
Frankenstein: Vol. 2, Chpts 5-7
1. New sentence pattern! Yes, a new one.
2. Check books & vocab
3. Vocab review
Discussion questions
1. Themes (recurring idea in a novel): C block: outsider v insider, identity in the context of others, loneliness, loss, creature v creator, search for knowledge, weather's impact on mood, weather's impact on people, nature v nurture. F block: identity, self-knowledge, self-reflection, misfortune, search for knowledge, good v evil, fate v free will, divine power, family, heart v mind, nature's influence on man/society, curiosity, story-telling, appearance v reality, acceptance of self and society, depression , fall of man, nature v science, faith v science.
**How do these themes work on the level of the self? society? universe/world?
2. What is the most important thing the creature learns about mankind from the De Lacey family?(Let's learn SPA!) Follow-up: what are the outcomes of his learning?
2. Check books & vocab
3. Vocab review
Discussion questions
1. Themes (recurring idea in a novel): C block: outsider v insider, identity in the context of others, loneliness, loss, creature v creator, search for knowledge, weather's impact on mood, weather's impact on people, nature v nurture. F block: identity, self-knowledge, self-reflection, misfortune, search for knowledge, good v evil, fate v free will, divine power, family, heart v mind, nature's influence on man/society, curiosity, story-telling, appearance v reality, acceptance of self and society, depression , fall of man, nature v science, faith v science.
**How do these themes work on the level of the self? society? universe/world?
2. What is the most important thing the creature learns about mankind from the De Lacey family?(Let's learn SPA!) Follow-up: what are the outcomes of his learning?
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