Friday Nov 18th

Well, I went looking for today's post ... and I couldn't find it anywhere.

I do apologise to the loyal followers of this blog. I thought I had this done.

I did not.

We did a bit of work on the essay and watched the film Coriolanus as a part of that.

Monday will be better. Pinky swear!

Thursday Nov 17

So ... quiz day.

Had all students write the quiz ... it was hashtag awesome.

I did get in fewer than all the assignments in, which was sad...

Ah well, we did some talking about the essay writing process and I spoke about what I saw from the class as a whole the last time we did essay writing.

We'll be talking more about the use of summary v analysis, starting sentences with the word "Because", and run on sentences in the near future. I really, completely and wholly support my students taking a peek at the book Elements of Style by Shrunk and White.

After that we did watch about 20 minutes of Coriolanus, a film for comparing Othello and the title character as an essay topic.

Wednesday Nov 16

We did some work on the character sketches and some work on the essay.

I did show my copy of Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince to the class and talked a little about it, as a part of the essay study we are doing. I also mentioned Harold Bloom's tome "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human", too. Both are just incredible resources for students.

Tuesday November 15

So, we had a nice short visit by Anna in class today. She presented on the class project on Samaritan's Purse Canada that we were asked to do before November 18th.

The list above is what we put together from the list of ideas from the small brochure that came with the box.

We then went back to working on our Othello Character Sketches and a bit of the essay work, too.

Fill it! ;)

Monday Nov 14

He has a nose in this one....

So, Monday.

Well, we finished the film version of  Othello. Now we do the script/text version and get through to Thursday. For homework for tonight, we got 20-25 on the Unit Outline.

So many people away on Friday, we changed the due date a day earlier. Needed to.

We will finish Othello this week and get on to essay writing and the next unit soon.

Coriolanus. What a film.

....and saw this

Friday Nov 11

Lest we forget...

So today we almost finished our play, as we had an extra long class. Or perhaps it was just that it seemed extra long.

In any case, we got 15, 16, 17 and 18 for questions for Monday.

We also saw the due date for Part Two of Othello, which will be Nov 18th. We will finish Othello on Monday and get moving onto the "extra" part of the unit then.

Thursday Nov 10

It is the 10th of November .... and stuff was due today.

Most students got material in today ... one or two got their assignments in yesterday. That's some good work right there. I love online submissions.

In any case ... we did a short quiz and then got on to talking about The Elements of Style, a very good book about how to do a better job of writing.

It's an awesome little book, available as an audiobook and as an iBook ... and probably a lot of other formats as well...

After that, we got to watch a bit of the film version with Laurence Fishburne and Kenneth Brannaugh.

A beach, for no reason.