Shrew Scenes: videos and scripts

Click here for scripts.

Scenes from the American Conservatory Theater production. Watch them all (for exam purposes). Watch extra carefully the one you are performing.

How goodly shines the moon!

Lay forth the gown.

Rap me well

She is my goods

Untie my hands!

Why will you mew her up?

Taming Scene (Goodmorrow, Kate)

Gotta take that Star reading test again.

This is the link

Best to open it in FIREFOX.

Name in ALL CAPS is your first initial + the first 4 letters of your last name. Example, Anna = ATAGL and Eric = EFARN

Password is the one you use to log in on a daily basis.

You’ll remember the drill. There are two tests, same as before.

Logout, if needed

Lord of the Flies: The Paper

Here’s a PDF of the quote-based paper assignment, in case you lost yours or were absent when I handed it out.

NOTE:  if you choose to do the Pig Hunt paper, the highest grade you can receive is a B, given that the page numbers are all picked out for you and we discussed that in depth in class.

Lord of the Flies, two ways

Know yourself as a reader. If reading while listening would help you absorb this book better, please go to the Lord of the Flies Page on this site so you can hear it in iTunes while you read. You will need to ask me for the password.

Also on that page is a tool to help you search the text. This will be useful as you take notes on the book for a 4th quarter paper.

Finally, extra notetaking sheets available as a pdf here.

The Psychology of Evil

Here’s a link to Philip Zimbardo’s TED talk on the psychology of evil.

And here’s some quotes from that talk:

There are seven social processes that grease the slippery slope of evil:

1. mindlessly taking the first small step
2. dehumanization of others
3. de-individualization of self (anonymity)
4. diffusion of personal responsibility
5. blind obedience to authority
6. uncritical conformity to group norms
7. passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference

“Power without oversight is prescription for abuse”

“They paint themselves like Lord of the Flies… and that’s the power of anonymity.”

“All evil starts with 15 volts.”

That whole TED conference was called “Will Evil Prevail.” There are notes for it if you want to read about the whole thing, and you can find all the talks at the TED site.

I-Search Outside Reading

(due April 4th and 5th)

In the spirit of I-Search, you have a choice of 3 books to read, each of which is kind of a book-length I-Search paper. That is, a reporter set out to investigate a subject by interviews and background reading, and produced from that information an influential book.

1. The oldest is John Hersey’s Hiroshima, written in 1946. Hersey was sent by the New Yorker magazine one year after the atom bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. He interviewed survivors and put together a piece for the magazine that turned into a book. Hiroshima focuses not on the politics and military history of World War II, but rather on what it was like to be in that human-made disaster on the day the bomb dropped and the weeks afterward.
2. Like Hiroshima, the origin of Into the Wild was as a magazine article, this one in Outside magazine in 1993. John Krakauer was investigating the strange death of a young man named Chris McCandless, who left all connections behind to hitchhike to Alaska and head for the wilderness, with nothing but 10 pounds of rice, a .22 calibre rifle, a camera, several boxes of rifle rounds, and a small selection of reading material. His body was found several months later by some hunters. Krakauer, in trying to figure out how McCandless died, ended up looking also into Chris’s personality and life and motivation for heading off on his own to Alaska. This popular book was made into an excellent movie in 2007, directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch.
3. The Perfect Storm was written in 1997 by Sebastian Junger. Junger investigated the loss of a fishing boat, the Andrea Gale, based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The crew was lost 575 miles at sea during the severe conditions of a “perfect storm.”  You will learn a lot about deep-sea fishing, about the community of fishermen from Gloucester, about storms, and about rescues at sea in this gripping book, which was made into an excellent movie in 2000.

I-Search

Much of what you’ll need is in a Noteshare Notebook, which you can download here.

Snow seems to be an issue in 2011. Don’t forget to check my Google calendar to keep track of the ever-changing blue and red dates and to see if weather has caused any deadline shifts.

Writing the I-Search, Part One

You will get a PILE of I-Search materials once the new semester begins, but here are the instructions for writing Part One, which will be due the SECOND CLASS MEETING of the new semester, so that, when we start researching, you’ve already thought about what you want to research.

Writing the I-Search: Part One

You should start writing Part One of the I-Search. (Before you do, it might be a good idea to speak with me or email me, so that I could help you think about whether your topic will work as an I-Search paper). Here’s what it should cover, in no particular order:

1. As complete a description of your topic as you can make at this point, including

• a list of questions you hope to be able to answer by the end of your research
• an explanation of the opposing views you expect to find  in your topic
• a plan for how you will go about identifying someone to interview

2. An account of your present state of knowledge and thinking on your topic, including

• what you know already, in some detail
• what theories and opinions you already have about the subject including your sense of what you expect you’ll find out

3. An account of your personal and intellectual connection to the topic, including

• why you are interested in this topic and the “history” of your interest
• what you hope to gain personally by studying this subject
• why knowledge of this topic will be valuable and important to you
• people that you know who connect you to this topic
• experiences you have had which connect you to this topic
• things that you’ve read or seen which connect you to this topic

4. A note with the signature of a parent or guardian, indicating that they have read your draft & approve of your topic.

Naturally some of you will have more to write in part one, depending on how much you already know and have experienced with this topic. But no one should have a problem meeting the minimum word length. If you do, you just haven’t given enough reflection yet to what you expect to learn from your research and why you find it interesting and important.

One purpose of part one is to insure that you’ve done some real thinking about your topic before you get very deep into your research. Another is to give you something to measure your success against when you’re all through: did you accomplish what you set out to do? But research often takes us in strange directions, so don’t be alarmed if you find you’ve moved away from your original intentions as you’ve gotten further into your subject.

Must be typed and proofread; minimum 200 words.

Quote sandwiches

Learn to use ’em well!

Here’s a link to download the keynote presentation. Open it with Keynote.

Added: 2 pdfs to review quote sandwiches and help you make ’em with words instead of video clips. Both taken from our assignment on 12 Angry Men: Quote Sandwiches: a graphic description and  Quote sandwiches in 12 Angry Men

The play script we read is here, so you can get print quotes for sandwiches, too.

Curious Incident of the Curious Projects

Along with our in-class essay test on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, you will have a choice of 3 projects. Choose one.

1. adding a chapter (or more) to the end of the book, imitating Chris’s writing style.
2. watching the film Temple Grandin and making a film-clip project about her ability to overcome the disabilities of her autism.
3. making a film (in the style of Alex Olinkewicz) about your own learning style and behaviors.

More details below. Due before Christmas break.

1. Write the next chapter(s) of the book, imitating the narrative voice of Christopher as well as the characteristic things he likes to write about. If you need a suggestion for the next situation, try this one: the father tries to get custody of Christopher and force Christopher to move back in with him. But you can make up a suitable situation on your own. Just check it out with me before you get too far into it. The aim is to write a chapter that sounds like the book and is true to the spirit and characters of the book, but is entirely made up by you.
2. Watch the movie Temple Grandin. Think about Temple as a special ed success story. She could have ended up institutionalized but instead she has become an influential person both in her field of animal husbandry and on the topic of autism. She never got cured of autism (there is no cure) but learned to understand, cope with, and overcome her disabilities, to keep them from standing between her and her goals. Then make 3-5 clips from the movie which show Temple understanding, coping with, and overcoming obstacles caused by her disability. Put these clips into a paper. For each clip write a paragraph that explains what this clip shows about Temple’s achievement.
3. Make an Alex Olinkiewiecz-style video about yourself as a learner. (You can watch his youtube video on the Curious Incident noteshare notebook to remind you of it.) The idea here is to describe yourself to others in terms of how you learn, how you interact with people, how your mind works. You should be thinking about learning in school and out of school: what’s effective and not effective to help you learn. What your special “behaviors” are (Christopher lists his on page 46 of the book. You might reread that, too.) It should be 3-8 minutes long, and more introspective than just a list of what you like and don’t like.