Period 4
happy Friday everyone! finally today is over… and i’m sure a lot of people are at the faculty talent show right now. wahhh! how fun!
today we had our hamlet final essay, which was the “closet interview” scene with Hamlet and Gertrude. What methods did Hamlet use to convince his mother that her decision to [...]
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Apparently, it can’t be considered a classic any more, unless “The Simpsons” produce it. Here it is:
via videosift.com
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Here are the three texts you can choose from for the research project:
Freakonomics
Nickel And Dimed
Fast Food Nation
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Period 4
To start off, thanks Tricia for the reminder that I was the scribe
Otherwise I would not have noticed
We began class by looking at Nadir’s “Ridiculously Smart” interview.
Then we looked at the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge line that Hamlet randomly inserts
Look on the post on February 22 and you’ll understand
Anyways today we did [...]
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Here’s the Animaniacs’ version:
Man, can you tell how they animators are worried about attention spans? I think they need a gag every 15 sec. or so.
Here’s another version with Derek Jacobi playing Hamlet. You might remember him from the film version we’ve seen–he plays Claudius there!
And here is the famous 1948 Laurence Olivier version. [...]
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In case you missed it we have someone in class who is not just smart. He’s super smart!
Why wasn’t I called for an interview? I’m crushed!
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Period 4
Hola Period 4,
Today we discussed a Hamlet speech with our groups today. Near the end of the period, two groups presented their speeches. Big Krig and the Blonde Bombshells presented Act I scene 2 lines 87-128. The King’s audience in this speech consists of Hamlet and Gertrude. His goal is to establish confidence with [...]
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Period 4
*Disclaimer* *I sit in the corner so I don’t see/hear a lot of the interesting, people doing weird things kind of stuff. I did, however, get down all the academic stuff (I hope). *
The class started with ACT IV quizzes being passed out to be graded. I got Dylan Lee’s…he’s really smart btw!! Then [...]
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Period 4
Hey everyone. So today we started out with the diction paper, and then randomly proceeded to talk about Sean’s Chinese ear. Mr. E also said that on this blog there are a bunch or resources to help us. We then talked about how enjaming poetry makes it sound better. We were then taught that [...]
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This is from the REDUCED (not Royal) Shakespeare Company:
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