Nov 3, 2013 Much Ado and Art History

Remember to write your full name and class period on the first line of your response.

Choose one of the following prompts and write at least 15 sentences about it:

• If you didn't write about your impressions of the performance of Much Ado About Nothing,  write about that.  
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• Even if you wrote about your Art History topic last week, write about what you are learning about your  stylistic period.  Share something interesting and add a picture to your post.  

As always, be creative, entertaining, original, and so brilliant as to be dazzling.

October 27 Much Ado about Nothing, Art History I

Don't forget to write you full name and class period on the first line of your comment.

For one of the three options that follow, write at least 15 sentences in an original, new, fresh, imaginative, entertaining, and creative way:

• Write a review of the play.  Please don't say the same things someone else has said.  Find your own unique voice and point of view.  Be creative in your use of words.
• Choose a line from the play, write it out, and explain why this line is important to the play as a whole, the plot, or character development.  
• Introduce us to you art history period.  Write about some of the defining characteristics of the style you will be studying.  Post a picture as an example of what you are describing.

I respect originality a lot.

October 20: Daughter of the Regiment or Much Ado About Nothing

Remember to write your full name and class period on the first line of your entry.  If you did not attend Daughter of the Regiment, choose option 2.  Otherwise, choose option 1.  Write at least 15 sentences on one of the following options:

• Option 1:  Use the Spotlight Guide that we read and/or your notes that you took during Rob's presentation to react to the performance of Daughter of the Regiment.  You can write about several aspects of the performance: the singing, orchestra, sets, lights, costumes, any aspect of the production.  As always, give specific examples from the performance or production and write about how the specific examples you choose contributed to the opera as a whole.
• Option 2:  Choose a quotation from Much Ado About Nothing or a scene, write it out or describe the scene and then tell how this quotation or scene is important to the development of the play.

As always be brilliant, creative, thoughtful, and entertaining. No whining.  

Oct 13 Much Ado About Nothing

Remember to write your full name and class period on the first line of your entry.  If you did not write about A Servant of Two Masters last week, choose option 2.  Otherwise, choose option 1.  Write at least 15 sentences on one of the following options:

• Choose a quotation from Much Ado About Nothing or a scene, write it out or describe the scene and then tell how this quotation or scene is important to the development of the play.
• Write about the performance we went to of A Servant of Two Masters.  Discuss various decisions the director or actors made for this performance and explain why the choice worked or why it didn't.
• As always, be creative, thoughtful, entertaining, and brilliant.