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

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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.

March 2, 2014: Amadeus

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Choose two ideas to write about from the movie and then write at least 8 sentences for each idea.   The ideas you can choose from but are not limited to include facts you learned about Mozart's life, facts you learned about late 18th century life, any of the characters or operas mentioned in the movie, or some of the larger themes explored in the movie.  Since there is a wealth of information presented in the movie, do not write about anything someone else has already written about.  Be original, creative, insightful, and brilliant.

Winter Break

There will be no blog this week because of winter break.  Be good over break, but if you can't be good be safe.

February 9 The Sleeping Beauty ballet

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Write at least 15 sentence about the performance of the ballet we see on Sunday.  Besides writing about the costumes and the staging, analyze at least two of the individual dances and explain why you like them, describing details from the dances.  The entire ballet is made up of many, many smaller dances.  For example, each fairy has her own dance, Aurora and the prince have their own dances as well as their dances together,  the bluebirds have their dance, and all the other fairy tale characters have their individual dances. Choose at least two of these and analyze them in detail.