Day 4 Film Literacy

Do Now: How do the minor characters comment on the narrative?

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to actively view scenes from Casablanca and explain how the director's shot choices tell the story.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can select particular shots or edits that develop setting, character, or motifs.
-I can explain how these shots/edits communicate information to the viewer.

Agenda: 

1. Light and shadow
2. Finishing Casablanca
3. Discussion on the film's (ir)relevance
4. Exit Ticket: A part of the film I don't understand is when...

Small Daily Task: Complete your responses to the three viewing concerns. I will collect them during Monday's class.

Day 3 Film Literacy

Do Now: Both Renault and Strasser allude to Rick's mysterious past. What are your first impressions of Rick?

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to actively view scenes from Casablanca and explain how the director's shot choices tell the story.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can select particular shots from the early scenes that establish setting, character, or motifs.
-I can explain how these shots communicate information to the viewer.

Agenda: 

1. Editing
2. Viewing concerns for Casablanca
3. Continuing the film
4. Exit Ticket: A part of the film I don't understand is when...

Small Daily Task: Respond to at least one of the viewing prompts. I'll collect your responses to all three when we finish the film.

Day 2 Film Literacy

Do Now: What was the studio system? 

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to actively view scenes from Casablanca and explain how the director's shot choices tell the story.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can select particular shots from the early scenes that establish setting, character, or motifs.
-I can explain how these shots communicate information to the viewer.

Agenda: 

1. Genre conventions
2. Viewing concerns for Casablanca
3. Beginning the film
4. Exit Ticket: What film concepts would you like to know more about?

Small Daily Task: Respond to at least one of the viewing prompts.

Day 1 Film Literacy

Do Now: Please complete the film questionnaire.

Today's Learning Target:
I will be able to actively view scenes from Casablanca and explain how the director's shot choices tell the story.
I will know that I have hit the learning target when...
-I can select particular shots from the early scenes that establish setting, character, or motifs.
-I can explain how these shots communicate information to the viewer.

Agenda: 

1. What is your favorite movie? What do you enjoy about it?
2. Introducing some film terms
3. Viewing concerns for Casablanca
4. Exit Ticket: What film concepts would you like to know more about?

Small Daily Task: What was the Studio System? What film is typical of this era?

Title Page and Proofreading

We're so close to crossing that finish line! Today, we'll cover proofreading ideas, how to format a title page, and what to have assembled for Friday's due date.

Follow this link for a works cited and transition resource.

Follow this link for revision suggestions.

Follow this link for sample titles and title page directions.

Follow this link for the senior thesis rubric.

One week to go!

While we wrap up conferences today, please use the lab time to work on one of the following items:

-introductory paragraph(s)

-concluding paragraph

-transition paragraphs

-revision for coherence (the big ideas and subtopics stick together)

-revision for cohesion (the sentences stick together) 

HW: Get outside for some fresh air and try to notice which trees are starting to bloom.

"The Lady in the Looking Glass" by Virginia Woolf

While we continue individual conferences about thesis drafts, please read "The Lady in the Looking Glass" and respond to the questions at the end.

How does Woolf's narration compare to the narrators of your primary sources?

HW: Continue revising. Be prepared to share your introductory and concluding paragraphs with a peer on Thursday.

More Modernism

Do Now: Modernist Mix tape - Connect the following songs to the author (Eliot, Woolf, Stein, Faulkner, Joyce) who influenced them:

"Shakespeare's Sister" by the Smiths

"Hollow Man" by R.E.M.

"Roseability" by Idlewild

"The Sensual World" by Kate Bush

"A Rose for Emily" by the Zombies

1. An excerpt from A Room of One's Own: Reread the explanation of the title's multiple meanings. Do your thesis authors create rich titles like this one?
2. Strong Argument: What is Woolf arguing in this excerpt? What rhetorical devices* (e.g., rhetorical questions, irony, sentence structure, alliteration, etc.) does Woolf use and to what effect?
3. Connection: Read Atwood's "Spelling" and make a connection to the excerpt.

HW: Identify the section of your draft that needs the most work.

*Some examples include:
 Rhetorical Question: “How, then, could it have been born among women … by all the power of law and custom?”
 Irony: “It is unthinkable that any woman in Shakespeare’s day should have had Shakespeare’s genius.”  Sentence structure, listing: “For genius like Shakespeare’s is not born among labouring, uneducated, servile people.”
 Alliteration: “Bronte or Burns blazes…proves its presence.”
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