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

March 30 Carmina Burana or The importance of Being Earnest

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This posting is the same as last weeks. Choose the opposite prompt that you wrote about last week of these two options.  If you wrote about the play last week, write about Carmina Burana this week .  If you wrote about Carmina Burana last week write about the play this week.  Whichever option you choose, write at least 15 sentences.

Option 1:  Write about your thoughts on the play, The Importance of Being Earnest.  Write at least 15 sentences in which you can analyze how a character chose to portray the part, a particular scene and why it was effective, the sets, costumes, any aspect of the play.

Option 2:  Choose lines from your section of Carmina Burana that describe a particularly interesting visual image.  Write out the lines and explain how these lines and the visual image works in the context of the entire poem.  Write at least 15 sentence.

As always be interesting, intelligent, brilliantly creative and insightful.

March 23 The Importance of Being Earnest/Carmina Burana

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

Choose one of the two options:

Option 1:  Write about your thoughts on the play, The Importance of Being Earnest.  Write at least 15 sentences in which you can analyze how a character chose to portray the part, a particular scene and why it was effective, the sets, costumes, any aspect of the play.

Option 2:  Choose lines from your section of Carmina Burana that describe a particularly interesting visual image.  Write out the lines and explain how these lines and the visual image works in the context of the entire poem.  Write at least 15 sentence.

As always be interesting, intelligent, brilliantly creative and insightful.

March 16 Re-envisioning Art

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This week we listened to a song by Schubert and then we listened to how that song was re-envisioned by Rammstein.  Each song had similar story lines, maybe even similar rhythms, and maybe similar tones.  Find another work of art:  poem, song, story, picture, movie, statue that has been re-envisioned.  Give both the original and the re-envisioned work.  And then discuss how each work of art is alike and how they are different.  How does the meaning of the piece change from the original work to the re-visioned work?

Remember to tell where you found the pieces of art.  This does not need to be a formal citation, but simply an informal acknowledgement where you found the material you use.

March 9: The Importance of Being Earnest

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As you know, we've been reading The Importance of Being Earnest, and we've been looking specifically at the aphorisms that Oscar Wilde creates throughout the play.
This is a link to the entire play for your reference:  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/844/844-h/844-h.htm

• Choose one aphorism from the play and then write 15 sentence explaining what the what the aphorism means in the context of the play.  
• Then write about how the aphorism relates to our current society.  
• Do not write about an aphorism that someone has already written about.  If you do, you will lose points.  

As always be creative, witty, insightful, and brilliant.