May 25 Review of Performances and Projects

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1.  For this week, if you did not do last week's blog, do that.  This is the prompt:

Since we are finished going to performances for this year,  it's time to sit back and reflect about what we remember from each performance.  This is the first of several blogs that will ask you to review the entire year.  These are the performances we attended:
A Servant of Two Masters
The Daughter of the Regiment
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tristan Effect
Rigoletto
The Sleeping Beauty
The Consul (optional)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Carmina Burana
Tales of Hoffmann

• Rank the shows from 1 to 10:  The most successful production/performance would be 1; the least successful production/performance would be 10.  If you didn't go to The Consul then that will be 10.  
• Then write at least three or four sentences for each performance explaining why you ranked it the way you did. 

2.  If you already answered prompt #1, then answer this prompt:

Review the non-performance aspects of the class.  Write at least 15 sentences, explaining what the best parts of the class (assignments, Rob's visits, blogs, etc) were.  Then write what the least effective aspects of the class were.  Be nice.  

May 18 2013 - 2014 Humanities Review

Remember to write you full name a class period on the first line of your entry.

Since we are finished going to performances for this year,  it's time to sit back and reflect about what we remember from each performance.  This is the first of several blogs that will ask you to review the entire year.  These are the performances we attended:
A Servant of Two Masters
The Daughter of the Regiment
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tristan Effect
Rigoletto
The Sleeping Beauty
The Consul (optional)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Carmina Burana
Tales of Hoffmann

• Rank the shows from 1 to 10:  The most successful production/performance would be 1; the least successful production/performance would be 10.  If you didn't go to The Consul then that will be 10.  
• Then write at least three or four sentences for each performance explaining why you ranked it the way you did.  

May 11 Art History Part II

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Choose your favorite work of art from the style you have been studying and write 15 sentences about that piece.  Explain why you like it, why it's a good example of the style, and analyze how the piece works in terms of color, form, arrangement, and subject.

As always be intelligent, entertaining, and wildly creative.

May 4: The Tales of Hoffmann

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Write a 15 sentence response to the opera.  In your response, you can write about the singing, sets, costumes, orchestra, the story, the display of automatons that was in the lobby; in other words, write about any aspect of the production and/or the performance that you want to.  Use specific details from the opera to support what you say.

If you could not go to the opera, write 15 sentences about your art history style.

April 27 Art History II or Tales of Hoffmann

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Two choices this week:

1.  Write at least 15 sentences about what you learned from Rob about The Tales of Hoffmann.
or
2.  Write at least 15 sentences about what you learned from me about the styles of Art History II.

As always, be brilliant, insightful, creative, and wildly entertaining. 

Spring Break

There is not blog during spring break.  

Enjoy your time off.  And be good, but if you can't be good be safe.

April 6: Carmina Burana Performance/ Tales of Hoffmann

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Choose one of the following two options to write about this week:

• Choose a line or some lines from one of the Tales of Hoffmann that we read and write at least 15 sentences explaining why your selection is important to the overall plot line of the story.
• Write at least 15 lines explaining your thoughts on the performance of Carmina Burana.  You can write about the orchestra, the chorus, or anything else about the performance.

As always, don't write about what some one else has already written about.  And, be creative, thoughtful, and wilding imaginative