Monday – Multiple choice and group work on photo projects.
Tuesday – Review mc answers, quiz answers, and read in class. Prepare powerpoint presentations for class tomorrow.
Wednesday – Presentations, notes and discussion.
Thursday – Presentations, notes and discussion. Photo Essays due by 4:00.
Friday – Watch film. Homework for Monday – read to page 41 (“They swore aloud together.”)
Friday, January 28, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Photo Analysis Project
Motivation: If you are researching a historical subject, old photographs can be clues to the past. You can read photographs like you can read other documents. Here is a set of questions you can ask about a photograph. By answering these questions in writing as you look at the photograph, you have created some notes from a primary source (a photograph) for your research. (Taken from Danzer, Gerald, A History Handbook for Student Research Projects, Illinois State Historical Society, 1991.)
Procedure: Look at the photograph and answer the questions below.
1. Predicting the action in the photograph
a. What do you think is happening in the picture?
2. Analyzing the photograph
a. Divide the photograph into several sections. List the objects (including clothing, background) found in each section. What is in the center of the photograph?
b. What details are the best clues to the meaning of the photograph? Why?
3. Research the photograph
a. What is the name of the photographer?
b. Does the photo have a title?
c. What are the names of the people in the photograph?
d. What is the REAL story of this photograph?
e. Did the photograph win an award?
4. Putting the photograph in context
a. Why do you think it was taken?
b. Who was the audience it was intended for?
c. What era, event, or theme does it illustrate?
Complete the sections 1 and 2 BEFORE you begin your research. Often a viewer will mistake the information in the photograph, so it is important to be able to compare what you thought was happening to what really took place. (Example – think how often you just look at the pictures in a magazine or newspaper. Could you ever get the wrong idea from a picture? The American public got a lot of wrong ideas from the photos from this era, mostly because the events were so difficult to understand in the first place.) Then complete your research on the photo and the real story behind it. Pay special attention to the difference between what seems to be happening and what really happened.
One person in your group must hand in an essay comparing what seems to be happening to the real story. Answer as many questions as possible from this sheet. One member must prepare a short powerpoint and present the findings to the class in a presentation, including the same information. Both entries must include a Works Cited page telling me where you got your information (cite ALL facts!) and where you found your photo.
Procedure: Look at the photograph and answer the questions below.
1. Predicting the action in the photograph
a. What do you think is happening in the picture?
2. Analyzing the photograph
a. Divide the photograph into several sections. List the objects (including clothing, background) found in each section. What is in the center of the photograph?
b. What details are the best clues to the meaning of the photograph? Why?
3. Research the photograph
a. What is the name of the photographer?
b. Does the photo have a title?
c. What are the names of the people in the photograph?
d. What is the REAL story of this photograph?
e. Did the photograph win an award?
4. Putting the photograph in context
a. Why do you think it was taken?
b. Who was the audience it was intended for?
c. What era, event, or theme does it illustrate?
Complete the sections 1 and 2 BEFORE you begin your research. Often a viewer will mistake the information in the photograph, so it is important to be able to compare what you thought was happening to what really took place. (Example – think how often you just look at the pictures in a magazine or newspaper. Could you ever get the wrong idea from a picture? The American public got a lot of wrong ideas from the photos from this era, mostly because the events were so difficult to understand in the first place.) Then complete your research on the photo and the real story behind it. Pay special attention to the difference between what seems to be happening and what really happened.
One person in your group must hand in an essay comparing what seems to be happening to the real story. Answer as many questions as possible from this sheet. One member must prepare a short powerpoint and present the findings to the class in a presentation, including the same information. Both entries must include a Works Cited page telling me where you got your information (cite ALL facts!) and where you found your photo.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Weekly Assignments - 1/18-1/21
Tuesday - Discussion of atmosphere, story of the sea told on a boat, Conrad’s structure and style.
Wednesday – Dr. Dunlap’s Vietnam War lecture. Read pages 11-15.
Thursday – Big Quiz on pages 1-15, Conrad’s life, and vocabulary. Opening scene of “AN.” Vietnam as a character in the film.
Friday – Explain project and practice photo analysis. Read pages 16-30 for Wednesday.
Wednesday – Dr. Dunlap’s Vietnam War lecture. Read pages 11-15.
Thursday – Big Quiz on pages 1-15, Conrad’s life, and vocabulary. Opening scene of “AN.” Vietnam as a character in the film.
Friday – Explain project and practice photo analysis. Read pages 16-30 for Wednesday.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Weekly Assignments 1/10-1/14
Monday – Finish study guide and review for test on film and either book or short story. Test will cover the study guide, the notes from class, and the handout on philosophy.
Tuesday - It’s a Wonderful Life test.
Wednesday – Introduction to Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, and the Belgian Congo. Read Chapter 1 in HOD by Monday.
Thursday – Watch opening scenes of Apocalypse Now. We will also cover a brief introduction to Apocalypse Now, the documentary Hearts of Darkness, and the Vietnam War. Discuss film techniques and Copalla’s film career.
Friday – More film and more war. Essay/project due today by 4:00.
Tuesday - It’s a Wonderful Life test.
Wednesday – Introduction to Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, and the Belgian Congo. Read Chapter 1 in HOD by Monday.
Thursday – Watch opening scenes of Apocalypse Now. We will also cover a brief introduction to Apocalypse Now, the documentary Hearts of Darkness, and the Vietnam War. Discuss film techniques and Copalla’s film career.
Friday – More film and more war. Essay/project due today by 4:00.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Assignments 1/4-1/7
Tuesday – Journal entry – positive and negative adjective to describe George Bailey. Review characters and powerpoint of Capra’s career. Print study guide for Wed.
Wednesday – Identify mood of post-WWII America and how it effected ticket sales for movies. Identify Capra’s message and purpose in the film. Break into study groups and complete study guide for Friday.
Thursday – Time to work on study guide in class. Discuss modern philosophers and how their theories can be applied to the film.
Friday – Review writing assignments. Answer study guide questions.
1) Homework for Monday – a one-page typed personal essay in response to the film. In light of the fact that you are just beginning to realize your dreams, Capra’s message of disillusionment and comfort do not apply to you. What other lesson can you take from the film and apply to your own life? Use a specific scene from the movie to illustrate your example, and then explain how this did or can apply to your own life. Use personal examples if applicable.
2) It’s a Wonderful Life Essay – If you did not read The Road. Read the original short story. Identify themes, motifs, and/or symbols that Capra added to the plot in order to create his film. Explain how these additions improved the final product, and what Capra’s reason was for including these additions.
3) The Road project – posted separately on blog.
Test on It’s a Wonderful Life, and either the short story or The Road, on Tuesday.
Wednesday – Identify mood of post-WWII America and how it effected ticket sales for movies. Identify Capra’s message and purpose in the film. Break into study groups and complete study guide for Friday.
Thursday – Time to work on study guide in class. Discuss modern philosophers and how their theories can be applied to the film.
Friday – Review writing assignments. Answer study guide questions.
1) Homework for Monday – a one-page typed personal essay in response to the film. In light of the fact that you are just beginning to realize your dreams, Capra’s message of disillusionment and comfort do not apply to you. What other lesson can you take from the film and apply to your own life? Use a specific scene from the movie to illustrate your example, and then explain how this did or can apply to your own life. Use personal examples if applicable.
2) It’s a Wonderful Life Essay – If you did not read The Road. Read the original short story. Identify themes, motifs, and/or symbols that Capra added to the plot in order to create his film. Explain how these additions improved the final product, and what Capra’s reason was for including these additions.
3) The Road project – posted separately on blog.
Test on It’s a Wonderful Life, and either the short story or The Road, on Tuesday.
The Road Assignment
Project – The Road - Produce a Powerpoint with at least five images that illustrate five great quotes in the book. Be creative in your choices. Remember there is some glimmer of hope in the story; you can also add hope to your image selections as well. (WARNING: NO CANNIBALISM in your assignment. I know it is there – I just don’t want to see it. Concentrate on other imagery from the novel.)
In addition to your powerpoint, type up an explanation of each photo and why you chose it. Give me depth. Study the photos. Do not state the obvious. Explain what the story of the picture is, as well as why you think it exemplifies your chosen quote. Include the quotes and an explanation of why you felt each quote from the story is significant, or why it spoke to you. The written part does not need to be in an essay format – you may number each paragraph to correspond with each slide. You will need a Works Cited page for the book only - trying to cite Google images is a nightmare.
Your typed portion is due by Friday at 4:00. Please post your powerpoint by 4:00 on the public network in the folder entitled “The Road.” Your name should be the name of your powerpoint file.
Here is the inspiration for the project – a review from Esquire of the film:
“The third major cast member of The Road is the setting itself, the world. The film's locations were perhaps the least well-kept secrets in the marketplace of prerelease Web sites about the movie. "Initially we were talking about [filming in] Australia or Iceland," Hillcoat says. "But all of our research took us to looking at images of events like Mount St. Helens, the volcanoes in the Philippines, Hiroshima, Katrina, a set of man-made and natural disasters that have been heavily photographed and filmed. My production designer, sitting in the countryside in Victoria, Australia, found eight miles of abandoned freeway in Pennsylvania on Google Earth, which gave us those dark tunnels. We deliberately used America's real apocalyptic zones. We went to New Orleans to shoot our interior shots in a ruined shopping mall in post-Katrina New Orleans. We used the strip mines in western Pennsylvania. Even billowing clouds in the background of one scene come from 9/11.
"When they pass through a city, there's a shot of two ships sitting on a freeway that looks like a visual effect. That is an actual IMAX 70mm shot taken days after Katrina. We had to doctor the image, grunge it up, make it more toxic, set it into our world, but these places were not hard to find. There's a fair amount of devastation already in the American landscape."
“You don't recognize these presences as some timely message from our near past, as heralds of warning. Like the father and son, the scenes — the forgotten 18-wheeler jackknifed on a freeway bridge, the gas stations littered with useless contraptions, the sinister farmhouses, the sheds with their hand tools piled like ancient contrivances — all of it calls up the now. Grunged and toxic, sure, but sickeningly familiar. You cannot recognize enough to say where this is, but you recognize it. All of it” (Chiarella).
In addition to your powerpoint, type up an explanation of each photo and why you chose it. Give me depth. Study the photos. Do not state the obvious. Explain what the story of the picture is, as well as why you think it exemplifies your chosen quote. Include the quotes and an explanation of why you felt each quote from the story is significant, or why it spoke to you. The written part does not need to be in an essay format – you may number each paragraph to correspond with each slide. You will need a Works Cited page for the book only - trying to cite Google images is a nightmare.
Your typed portion is due by Friday at 4:00. Please post your powerpoint by 4:00 on the public network in the folder entitled “The Road.” Your name should be the name of your powerpoint file.
Here is the inspiration for the project – a review from Esquire of the film:
“The third major cast member of The Road is the setting itself, the world. The film's locations were perhaps the least well-kept secrets in the marketplace of prerelease Web sites about the movie. "Initially we were talking about [filming in] Australia or Iceland," Hillcoat says. "But all of our research took us to looking at images of events like Mount St. Helens, the volcanoes in the Philippines, Hiroshima, Katrina, a set of man-made and natural disasters that have been heavily photographed and filmed. My production designer, sitting in the countryside in Victoria, Australia, found eight miles of abandoned freeway in Pennsylvania on Google Earth, which gave us those dark tunnels. We deliberately used America's real apocalyptic zones. We went to New Orleans to shoot our interior shots in a ruined shopping mall in post-Katrina New Orleans. We used the strip mines in western Pennsylvania. Even billowing clouds in the background of one scene come from 9/11.
"When they pass through a city, there's a shot of two ships sitting on a freeway that looks like a visual effect. That is an actual IMAX 70mm shot taken days after Katrina. We had to doctor the image, grunge it up, make it more toxic, set it into our world, but these places were not hard to find. There's a fair amount of devastation already in the American landscape."
“You don't recognize these presences as some timely message from our near past, as heralds of warning. Like the father and son, the scenes — the forgotten 18-wheeler jackknifed on a freeway bridge, the gas stations littered with useless contraptions, the sinister farmhouses, the sheds with their hand tools piled like ancient contrivances — all of it calls up the now. Grunged and toxic, sure, but sickeningly familiar. You cannot recognize enough to say where this is, but you recognize it. All of it” (Chiarella).
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
It's A Wonderful Life Study Guide
It’s a Wonderful Life Study Guide
Be familiar with the following items, events, and figures in U.S. history from the time period 1919 to 1946.
1. 1919 Flu epidemic (Mr. Gower’s son)
2. Soda Fountain/ Soda Jerk (Mr. Gower’s drug store)
3. Telegram
4. Building and Loan (Bailey business)
5. Charleston contest (Prom scene)
6. Run on a bank
7. Herbert Hoover (portrait in Building and Loan)
8. Air-raid warden
9. Scrap drives
10. 1A / 4F Draft Board
11. War bonds
12. VE Day/VJ Day
13. Medal of Honor
14. Harry Truman
Questions:
1. How many different modes of transportation are used in the film?
2. How does weather affect the mood of the film? How many types of weather are used?
3. What style architecture is the Granville House? Compare this style to the houses in Bailey Park.
4. Give three examples of how technology has changed since this movie was made.
5. Compare George Bailey’s office to Mr. Potter’s office.
6. What are the differences between Martini’s Bar and Nick’s Place?
7. What are the differences between Bedford Falls and Pottersville?
8. What happens to the women in George’s life if he had never been born? His mother? Mary? Violet Bick?
9. Where do these three important sayings appear in the film?
A. Bread... that this house may never know hunger. Salt... that life may always have flavor. And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever.
B. Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.
C. All you can take with you is what you have given away. (Hint – it is on the wall in George’s office.)
Vocabulary:
squall
rabble
miser
pox
lout
chloroform
malfeasance
picketing
confound
smidgen
potter’s field
Who said the following significant quotes in the film?
1. Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
2. Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.
3. You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.
4. A toast to my big brother, George: The richest man in town.
5. George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die.
6. Boys and girls and music. Why do they need gin?
7. Now you listen to me. I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors. And I don't want to get married *ever* to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.
8. You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important. Satisfying a fundamental urge. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office.
Be able to identify the following people associated with the film:
Jimmy Stewart
Donna Reed
Lionel Barrymore
Thomas Mitchell
Frank Capra
Be familiar with the following items, events, and figures in U.S. history from the time period 1919 to 1946.
1. 1919 Flu epidemic (Mr. Gower’s son)
2. Soda Fountain/ Soda Jerk (Mr. Gower’s drug store)
3. Telegram
4. Building and Loan (Bailey business)
5. Charleston contest (Prom scene)
6. Run on a bank
7. Herbert Hoover (portrait in Building and Loan)
8. Air-raid warden
9. Scrap drives
10. 1A / 4F Draft Board
11. War bonds
12. VE Day/VJ Day
13. Medal of Honor
14. Harry Truman
Questions:
1. How many different modes of transportation are used in the film?
2. How does weather affect the mood of the film? How many types of weather are used?
3. What style architecture is the Granville House? Compare this style to the houses in Bailey Park.
4. Give three examples of how technology has changed since this movie was made.
5. Compare George Bailey’s office to Mr. Potter’s office.
6. What are the differences between Martini’s Bar and Nick’s Place?
7. What are the differences between Bedford Falls and Pottersville?
8. What happens to the women in George’s life if he had never been born? His mother? Mary? Violet Bick?
9. Where do these three important sayings appear in the film?
A. Bread... that this house may never know hunger. Salt... that life may always have flavor. And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever.
B. Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.
C. All you can take with you is what you have given away. (Hint – it is on the wall in George’s office.)
Vocabulary:
squall
rabble
miser
pox
lout
chloroform
malfeasance
picketing
confound
smidgen
potter’s field
Who said the following significant quotes in the film?
1. Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
2. Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.
3. You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.
4. A toast to my big brother, George: The richest man in town.
5. George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die.
6. Boys and girls and music. Why do they need gin?
7. Now you listen to me. I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors. And I don't want to get married *ever* to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.
8. You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important. Satisfying a fundamental urge. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office.
Be able to identify the following people associated with the film:
Jimmy Stewart
Donna Reed
Lionel Barrymore
Thomas Mitchell
Frank Capra
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