Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
Please post your answers as comments to this post:
Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space”
Define public space.
How does he use anecdotes to make his case?
What are his examples? Evaluate their effectiveness.
What does it mean to inhabit public space?
Scott Russell Sanders
What is his thesis?
What examples does he employ to illustrate his thesis?
Why 2nd person narrative?
Explain Sanders’ [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
As we’re now into the 6th month of what is being described as the worse financial crisis since The Great Depression, we’re beginning to sort out what is happening and what we might have to do about it. Of course there are always two (or three) schools of thought about how we should proceed. But [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
Here are the three texts you can choose from for the research project:
Freakonomics
Nickel And Dimed
Fast Food Nation
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Posted on February 25th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
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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Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
This is from the REDUCED (not Royal) Shakespeare Company:
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Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
Here is Ed’s list that he just couldn’t stop compiling. The human is a very varied animal, no? What do you think? Are there more? And should all of these be counted?
Agitation
Alert
Anger
Annoyance
Anxiety
Apathy
Arrogant
Atomic
Baffled
Balanced
Bitterness
Bliss
Boastful
Boredom
Brilliance
Brave
Calm
Cheerful
Conceited
Concerned
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Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
Here are different takes to pose the question of staging and blocking. And with the film medium, there’s another character: the camera. All of this must be kept in the mind when working out a scene. Here are three forms of Hamlet’s famous “soliloquy.” The first is from my favorite version, [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
As now many of you know (not necessarily relish, but know in a sad way), you have been flying blind. You have very little of the nuts and bolts to build much of anything resembling comprehension. Your plentiful lack of vocabulary knowledge has led many of you to waste your efforts in simply reading words, [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
Period 4
Scribe Notes 2/11/09
We started off the period with a syntax worksheet. Remember: when you are measuring syntax, place dashes over the periods for “periods are hard to see, dashes are not.” Pretty much the rest of the period was spent discussing Hamlet.
Key points in Hamlet:
·Taking notes on Hamlet and all other literary works [...]
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Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by Mr. Eldridge
For those of you who argued on your papers, I thought I’d post some thought-provoking articles (at least they provoked some thought out of me). So…
If you argued that entertainment CAN ruin society try this: Brain Candy.
If you argued that entertainment CANNOT ruin society why don’t you check this out: The Age of EgoCasting.
Look [...]
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