Assignment 6

Write a review of your group's performance. Be sure to address character development (including mannerisms), focus (ability to stay in character), voice (articulation, expression, projection), space (use of stage area and props), preparedness, and overall presentation. Dissect the performance to pinpoint what made it successful and areas that could have been improved.

Conclude your review by explaining what your own performance added to your experience of the text and to your understanding of the comedy. You may also talk about your understanding of acting.

Please make the post title "Assignment 6" and your name.
ex: Assignment 6: Nathan Spalding

Due Wednesday evening by 11:59 pm.

2nd Hour Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIqwj1EOARYAUVj5ctjypFl8T1q5itYtL

4th Hour Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIqwj1EOARYBqibG_PHArFeB4CpdiM4r8

Assignment 5

In a minimum of 150 words, please tell me what you want to be when you grow up. Please include how you plan to achieve this goal, as well as what you hope to gain from doing this--monetary gain, personal fulfillment, cure for cancer, etc.

If you are unsure what you want to do, please just explore at least one possibility in which you are currently interested.

Please be sure to include your name in the post title.
(Nathan Spalding Assignment 5)

Assignment 4

How does/will the study of the liberal arts, specifically literature (novels, drama, poetry) enhance your life?  Beyond becoming an expert juggler and test taker, how might your studies of the humanities round out your education? your character?   

Remember to put the assignment number and your name in the title of your post.

Assignment 3

1.) Study a poem we haven't read in Chapter 9 "Art and the Artist" (except for "Prufrock"). Thoroughly explain how tone is created through one specific poetic device.

2.) Choose one of the following statements, explain why it expresses a belief about art that is similar to yours:

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."  --Amy Lowell

"In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption." --Raymond Chandler

"The artist speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives, to our sense of pity and beauty, and pain." --Joseph Conrad

"It doesn't make much difference how the pain is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement." --Jackson Pollock

"Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time.  It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced.  It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden . . . it is the best evidence we can have our our dignity." --E. M. Forster
(Adapted from exercise 4 on page 1163 of our text.)


Please remember to title your post with your first and last name, as well as with the assignment number.
Ex: Nathan Spalding Assignment 3

Assignment 2

1. Write a free verse poem about your high school experience that demonstrates a specific tone. This tone should be developed through your diction, syntax, imagery, and allusions. Remember to keep your poem school appropriate. Your poem should have a title.

2. Write a well-developed paragraph that analyzes how your diction, syntax, imagery, and allusions create your tone. Be sure to actually specify what tone you intended, as well as how you achieved it.

Remember to format your title as follows: First name Last name Assignment 2

Due by 11:59 pm 9/6

Assignment 1

Look back at Ludvigson's poem "Inventing my Parents." Please select one allusion that is made in the poem and write a response that analyzes how that allusion contributes to the overall meaning of the text.
A thorough analytical response will include an explanation of the allusion, direct quotes from the poem, and commentary connecting the allusion to the theme of the text.
Please do not merely summarize the poem.

Please format the title of you post like this:
First Name Last Name Assignment 1
Ex: Nathan Spalding Assignment 1

Due Sunday 8/30 at 11:59 pm