Winter Break

There is no blog over winter break. Enjoy your time off, and be good, but if you can't be good be safe.

December 15 The King's Diversion/Rigoletto

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

Bad translation aside,  I think you will agree that the play is pretty good.  Choose a quotation from the play and then write 15 sentences explaining the importance of the quotation to the main action of the play, to character development, or to one of the major themes in the play.  This is the link to a translation of the play:  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001049242c;view=1up;seq=45  The play begins on page 35 of the online text.
  Please don't use a quotation that someone else has used.  Be original.  For example there were 48 comments posted on our blog on Oedipus Rex.  The word interesting was used 55 times, confusing 32 times, and strange 21 times.  Please, Please, Please,  BE ORIGINAL.

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.  
• 
  
• 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.