ENGLISH - 1st trimester – Day 23
Number a paper 1 – 44…then borrow one of the handouts from the center table and write out your 44 answers on your paper.
Plurals and possessives test will be Monday, January 16, 2012
Reviewed tomorrow’s prefix test FORMAT (same as last prefix test)
Watched an Encore introduction to Poe and a “The Tell-Tale Heart” animation
Began homework
ENGLISH homework:
Read opening introductory pages on Edgar Allan Poe (pgs. 276 – 285) – including “Letter to John Allan” and “Alone” and TOOK NOTES ON THESE PAGES for an open-notes test in the near future
Affix/vocabulary test on Friday, January 13 - Study the 5 entries in Latin/Greek vocabulary packet. Know the prefixes’ definitions and an example of how each is used to form a new word.
Study for Plural and Possessive test on Monday, January 16
PLAYWRITING – Day 22
Discussed an excerpt from Roland Barthes essay “Baudelaire’s Theater” where he writes that theatricality is “theater-minus-text, it is a density of signs and sensations built up on stage starting from the written argument” (1972:26) and how it introduces the notion, promoted by the European avant-garde since the beginning of the twentieth century, that the “essence” of theatre was to be found not in the written text but in the nontextual elements of production. (re: Glen McGillivray – “The Discursive Formation of Theatricality as a Critical Concept”)
With a partner and choosing ONE of our headlines from the other day, outline (and begin scripting) a scene considering - situation, conflict (real or imagined), journey, and theatricality
Playwriting homework:
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