June 3rd

Talked about the exam for this course:

• There are 3 parts:
• Read something and then answer some questions.
• Written (essay)
• Oral (discussion) 

Pick a poem for Monday, so we can do a POETRY CAFE! 

The poem should be no less than 18 lines long, and MUST BE APPROPRIATE!! It can be longer, just no shorter.

Of what we have studied: 

1. What text most impacted culture?

1. What text was most influenced by culture?

2. Who was the most likable character we encountered?

2. Who was the most unlikable character we encountered?

3. What is the one best way to communicate messages implicitly? 

4. What medium best communicates its message?

5. Whose language/text was most effective?

Answer ALL of these questions, as in class Hanlon will ask you to answer some of them (random). You will be asked 1 or more, so make sure to know the answer before class MONDAY.

June 1st

Rom-com tropes:

• Leads not together (L & Hm).
• Songs.
• Physical humor (Bottom),
• Changes of heart.
• Exaggerated love.
• Amorous canoodling.
• Temporary separations.
• Wedding ending.
• Parallel situations.
• Class status issues (Ti & B).
• Secrets.
• Funny BFF (Puck).
• A fight (Hm & Hl).
• Mistaken identity (bottom).

Significance of motifs:

• Snakes: Dangers to love/hate/deception. 
• Dreams: Emphasizes surrealism/ questions of reality/ confusion.
• Moon: Sets atmosphere, passage of time, and emphasizes purity.

Criticism of theater:

• Poor staging.
• Melodrama.
• Poor concentration.
• Malapropisms.
• Failing to maintain illusion of reality.
• Exaggerated euphony (alliteration).

COURSE QUESTION:

#1,2,3.

May25th-30th

We got a the final package for A Mid-Summer Night's Dream,and finished the play.

May 18th

Influence culture homework due! Hand it in.

Play and breakdown done. Watch for motifs!

May 16th

We watched a video based on A Mid-Summer Night's Dream.

We looked at the play.

We did a chart on a text, influence by culture, and on culture. Due Wednesday- can look up.

"The Veldt" | Influence BY culture | Influenced culture via
________________________________________________
                    |     Prolifiation of TV   |  Deadmau5's "The Veldt"
                    |      obsession with       |  (song and video).
                    |       modern TV.          |   High school lessons.                 
__________|__________________|______________________
A Mid-Summer |      DO                   |   Menderssohn's music, short film
Night's Dream   |                               |   ("Bottom's dream")    
_____________________________|__Uranus' moons (Oberon, Titania)
          
OTHEr!!                  DO                                 DO
__________________________________________________


Play breakdown.

May 11th

MAKE SURE YOU HAND IN YOUR COPY OF MARTIAN CHRONICALS!

We worked on the play, and the breakdown. And we got a new package.

May 9th

Malapropism: The incorrect use of a word. "bad use". (Bottom).
Spoonerism: Mix up first letter of words.

Did a creative writing assignment with malapropisms.

A changeling is a mystical being: if there is something wrong with the baby (defect) blame on fairies. Called it a changeling- "fairy child". Not their TRUE child- a replacement.

Worked on play and breakdown.