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.

May4th

Root quiz 6 was today!!!

A Mid-Summer Nights Dream notes:

we did scene break down and notes:

Parallelism- I.i.169-175, 136-141, 194-201 (antithesis).

Hermia rhymes at I.i.171-251 and all join in.

Dreams: I.i.154

"Maying" activities traditionally involved maids going into a forest and never returning as maids.


ACT I SCENE i:

lines 128-179, -T,Hp,E,D.... We sad, let's escape tomorrow!

lines 180-225, +Hl,...... Hl jealous of Herm; They tell Hl their secret.