For Monday, March 30

For John Taylor and the rest of you who missed my citation for the quote on my last post.  When I copied and pasted from the senior blog, I missed this.  Sorry:(

http://ignoringoccupation.blogspot.com/p/art-and-culture.html

Now, finish reading The Road. Continue annotating as you discover themes, symbols, motifs, purpose.  

You should look over the handouts Mrs. Allen gave you regarding the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  You will be writing a timed essay over this material on Monday in class.  This mimics the synthesis question on the AP Language exam.

You should use embedded quotes from each of the three sources provided.  I will give you 55 minutes to write this essay.  That gives you 15 minutes of reading/prep time and 40 minutes writing time.

For Thursday, March 26

Complete the Quick Write over the relationship between music and humanity.  You should bring in about a page and a half.  Remember to answer all parts of the question.

In search of a world language, music seems to the universal language of Earth regardless if the song is sung in Arabic or Spanish or Japanese or is recorded in Swahili. Humanity has been communicating through music longer than spoken language. Even now instruments in fusion music, local and indigenous and classical music still earns respect from warring factions and divided nations. Music has been used in the past and currently the present as a form of diplomacy sometimes backed by governments across the world in cultural exchanges by citizen led initiatives from film festivals, musical collaborations between national bands across borders or further away to call for understanding, cooperation and peace where politicians have failed to bridge the gap. Just as it has been used for diplomacy it has also become a tool of therapy for distressed people: soldiers and civilians suffering PTSD and daily stress of life in general. Than there is the role of music in propaganda and how it has been used to promote a jingoistic and exclusionary nationalism. But at the end of the day, music is still regarded as a culture and sound everyone around the world enjoys and immerses in.

For Tuesday, March 24

Read the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy to page 200.  Remember that as you read, I want you looking for symbols, recurring motifs, themes, allusions.  I will be looking forward to rich discussion when we return from spring break.

For tomorrow, we will meet in the FAB.  Plan to rehearse and/or Drop Everything and Read.  If you would like to bring a pillow, FANTASTIC.

For Wednesday, March 11

Bring in the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

For Monday, March 9

Let me just say:
I am so excited by the variety of ideas I heard today.  As always, you guys make me so happy.  You are creative, motivated, and AMAZINGNESS!

For one and all:

Each project should have a Notes page that tells me the pages on which your quotes can be found. This can be a numbered list.  Put your quotes in the order they appear in the project.

Project Requirements per Individual Student:

Gabby Banks: 
Animoto-
Theme:  Dorian's Transformation Due to Negative Influence
Minimum:  9 quotes
Commentary:  Conclusion that states Wilde's purpose and application for today

Connor Bolleter: SWAG
Ad Campaign-
Theme:  Good vs. Evil in Dorian's Soul
Playbill, Movie Critic Review, Talk Show Interview with Wilde, Animoto movie trailer
9 Quotes
Commentary-will come through in interview and review; theme in movie trailer and playbill
Make sure I know what Wilde accomplishes for his readers.

Abbey Collins:
Video-
Theme:  Loss of Innocence     Literary Device:  symbols/influence
9 Quotes
Commentary:  Maybe at end or even during video:  Be careful of falling prey to negative influence.  Cure the soul by means of the senses...??

Jeany and Peach De Jager:
Scrapbook
Theme:  The conflict in Dorian's soul
Creative Elements:  partner work 
10 quotes each - identify who picked what quote
Commentary at end:  - individual commentary - identify who wrote what

Taylor Gilleyan:
Scrapbook
Theme:  Increasing corruption of Dorian
10 quotes minimum
Commentary:  - Images themselves, even paper, reflect growing corruption
At end-conclusion stating purpose of novel - Can be in the form of diary entry, etc.

Nic Hatcher: TRUE Chains 
CD Soundtrack and Album Cover
Theme:    Characterization - in novel
9 Quotes - a written rationale for each chosen song
Make sure you have commentary that points to Wilde's purpose through his character development. - can be on album cover or within rationales

Alex Holsem:
CD Sountrack and Album Cover
Theme:  Dorian's Depravity - humanity's sin nature
9 quotes - a written rationale for each chosen song
Make sure you have commentary that points to what Wilde shows his readers through this theme. - can be on album cover or within rationales

Jonathan Martin: SUP FAM
Psychiatrist's File
Theme:  Dorian's dual nature
9 quotes
3 significant explanations or (session notes that provide analysis)
Presented in a folder

Ross Ohendalski:
Additional character and chapter
Theme:  Dorian's guilt - Sin will find you out
9 quotes 
Commentary - either through director's notes or as a final conclusion at end of chapter
What is Wilde's message for the world?  

Maddie Ream:
Dance  + Rationale
Theme:  Dorian's fall into depravity
9 Quotes - perhaps broken into the three movements 
Rationale for song
Rationale for the three "movements" of the dance ( innocence, captured by sin, etc.)
Rationale for dance can include tone, references to physicality, setting, etc.

John Taylor:
New Character - skit
Original Song
10 poems
Theme:  Dorian's contradictory soul - nature of his fall/repentance is available
9 quotes
Make sure to have commentary either within the creative part of the project or as an added concluding paragraph

For Thursday, March 5

NOTICE:  todaysmeet actually closed today at 12:01 p.m. which meant lunch today.  So..if you responded with your comments=100 minor grade for you. If you did not respond, there is no benefit/no penalty. You are exempt from the assignment.

We will finish up your team discussion sheets over PoDG.

Salvador Dali
Metamorphosis of Narcissus

The remainder of class time will be spent on your PoDG project.  You will meet with me to go over the specific requirements for your particular project.  Everyone must meet with me on Thursday.

PROJECT DUE:  9 March 2015

Keys for success:

You want your project to do everything a quality analytical essay over this novel would do.  Think:  3 body paragraphs...9 quotes with explanations or quotations sandwiches.  So, in your project, include a similar amount of evidence and explanation.

Obviously, this will look different for every project, but if you realize that this is our goal as far as tools used and exercised, your project will be superior in all its parts.