Monday, December 7 - Friday, December 11
Friday
We focussed on Petruchio's soliloquy after the wedding, where he vows to tame Kate. Once the activities related to the speech were concluded, we viewed more of the film version of the play.
Thursday
Once the excitement of the treed bear subsided, we got down to looking at two of the edited versions of the meeting of Kate and Petruchio. Both provided their own unique insights into the scene and were suitably comedic. Well done. For the remainder of the class we viewed Taming of the Shrew. With about 15 minutes remaining of class time, we broke into groups and played a game to review drama terms and devices. Hope the bear is okay!
Reminder:
Tomorrow is the last day to write the poetry quiz from November 20th.
Tomorrow is also the last day to present late infographic assignments (which were due December 2) at lunch time.
Here is a photo taken by CTV news of our new mascot.
Wednesday
We finally got to the editing the script activity that has been on the agenda for three days now! Following our viewing of the meeting between Kate and Petruchio on video, we took a look at the script of the play. Your group was tasked with editing the script by at least 50%. The rest of the instructions are below:
Think about how you want to portray the two characters. You have quite a lot of leeway. Is Petruchio a gold digger, a lunatic, a lover, a clown? Is Kate mean, depressed, just happy to be single, too smart to marry someone like Petruchio? You get to decide how to play your characters by emphasizing or deleting various lines. As long as you do not change the storyline you are free to interpret.
1. Read through the scene together aloud and discuss options for where cuts could occur. The percentage of text to cut: 50% approximately
2. Add tone words, stage movements, and stage business to the prompt book.
3. Add one of the following: a moment of laughter, a moment of crying, a ten second pause, a tableau, a modern prop, a whisper, a line spoken directly to the audience, or a line spoken chorally.
4. Also add one costume change (a hat, a scarf, etc) and one prop.
5. All movements, tone words, extras must be written into the prompt book. Colored pens and highlighters make this easier to read.
What does the audience HAVE to know? Does the scene still make logical sense after the cuts? Is the storyline still clear? Are there any key words/phrases that must be retained?
I am looking forward to seeing the results of today's work in tomorrow's class.
Tuesday
In order to clarify who's who in Taming of the Shrew, we worked on a character "map" at the start of the class. I answered a lot of questions which was great because it showed me you were trying to understand the characters AND it cleared up some things in the play that can be quite confusing. Basically, pretty much everyone is pretending to me someone they are not. We finished watching the meeting of Kate and Petruchio in the older version and then did an abrupt switch to the modern version of their meeting.
Monday
I returned the poetry tests today. I outlined the strengths as being: clarity of expression, sentence structure and variety, support for opinions - embedded quotes. Things to keep working on include: deepen your analysis of the poem, in some cases elaborate more, continue to work on eliminating any quotes that are two lines long. Crank-up the sophistication of your vocabulary - think more formal?
We took a look at some sample exam responses (not from our class) and tried scoring them. The class was pretty accurate. We will try this strategy again with synthesis examples and composition examples.
We returned to Taming of the Shrew for about 20 minutes, but still haven't actually seen the scene where Kate and Petruchio meet and talk for the first time. Tomorrow for sure!
We focussed on Petruchio's soliloquy after the wedding, where he vows to tame Kate. Once the activities related to the speech were concluded, we viewed more of the film version of the play.
Thursday
Once the excitement of the treed bear subsided, we got down to looking at two of the edited versions of the meeting of Kate and Petruchio. Both provided their own unique insights into the scene and were suitably comedic. Well done. For the remainder of the class we viewed Taming of the Shrew. With about 15 minutes remaining of class time, we broke into groups and played a game to review drama terms and devices. Hope the bear is okay!
Reminder:
Tomorrow is the last day to write the poetry quiz from November 20th.
Tomorrow is also the last day to present late infographic assignments (which were due December 2) at lunch time.
Here is a photo taken by CTV news of our new mascot.
Wednesday
We finally got to the editing the script activity that has been on the agenda for three days now! Following our viewing of the meeting between Kate and Petruchio on video, we took a look at the script of the play. Your group was tasked with editing the script by at least 50%. The rest of the instructions are below:
Think about how you want to portray the two characters. You have quite a lot of leeway. Is Petruchio a gold digger, a lunatic, a lover, a clown? Is Kate mean, depressed, just happy to be single, too smart to marry someone like Petruchio? You get to decide how to play your characters by emphasizing or deleting various lines. As long as you do not change the storyline you are free to interpret.
1. Read through the scene together aloud and discuss options for where cuts could occur. The percentage of text to cut: 50% approximately
2. Add tone words, stage movements, and stage business to the prompt book.
3. Add one of the following: a moment of laughter, a moment of crying, a ten second pause, a tableau, a modern prop, a whisper, a line spoken directly to the audience, or a line spoken chorally.
4. Also add one costume change (a hat, a scarf, etc) and one prop.
5. All movements, tone words, extras must be written into the prompt book. Colored pens and highlighters make this easier to read.
What does the audience HAVE to know? Does the scene still make logical sense after the cuts? Is the storyline still clear? Are there any key words/phrases that must be retained?
I am looking forward to seeing the results of today's work in tomorrow's class.
Tuesday
In order to clarify who's who in Taming of the Shrew, we worked on a character "map" at the start of the class. I answered a lot of questions which was great because it showed me you were trying to understand the characters AND it cleared up some things in the play that can be quite confusing. Basically, pretty much everyone is pretending to me someone they are not. We finished watching the meeting of Kate and Petruchio in the older version and then did an abrupt switch to the modern version of their meeting.
Monday
I returned the poetry tests today. I outlined the strengths as being: clarity of expression, sentence structure and variety, support for opinions - embedded quotes. Things to keep working on include: deepen your analysis of the poem, in some cases elaborate more, continue to work on eliminating any quotes that are two lines long. Crank-up the sophistication of your vocabulary - think more formal?
We took a look at some sample exam responses (not from our class) and tried scoring them. The class was pretty accurate. We will try this strategy again with synthesis examples and composition examples.
We returned to Taming of the Shrew for about 20 minutes, but still haven't actually seen the scene where Kate and Petruchio meet and talk for the first time. Tomorrow for sure!
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