December 8 Oedipus Rex or The King's Diversion

There is no blog for the week of Thanksgiving.  Enjoy the holiday and don't think about the blog.

For the week after Thanksgiving there are two blog options.  Write 15 sentences for one of the following prompts:

1. Write about your impression of the play and/or the opera of Oedipus Rex.  Discuss the sets, costumes, motifs, and individual performances of the singer.  Do you think the opera captures the core ideas of the play?  
2. Write about the play "The King's Diversion."  Write out a quotation from the play and describe how this is important to a theme in the play or character development.

As always be thoughtful, creative, entertaining, and brilliantly insightful.

November 24 Art History Presentations Week 2

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

List five things you have learned this week from someone else's presentation and then for each of the five ideas write three sentence about why this is important or why it intrigues you.  Choose different facts from what others in the class have talked about and choose different periods from you wrote about last week.  As always, be creative, original, insightful, and entertaining.

Nov 17 Art History Presentations

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

List five things you have learned so far from someone else's presentation and then for each of the five ideas write three sentence about why this is important or why it intrigues you.  Choose different facts from what others in the class have talked about.  As always, be creative, original, insightful, and entertaining.

The Tristan Effect November 10

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

• Describe at least three things you learned during The Tristan Effect program.  Avoid repeating what others have already said.  Then describe your impression of or reaction to the music.  This entry should be around 15 sentences long.  And as always be creative, insightful, entertaining, and informative.
• If you were unable to attend The Tristan Effect,  write about an aspect of your art history project that you have not yet written about.  This should also be 15 sentences.  

This blog is due no later than midnight Novemeber 11.

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.