Week 9, Day 5: Friday, October 31, 2014 OLES Franky day 5

Back due to unprecedented audience demand is the National Theatre’s thrilling production of Frankenstein, written by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley.  Directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony), Frankenstein features Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Mansfield Park) as Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years A Slave, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Imitation Game) as his creation. The production was a sell-out hit at the National Theatre in 2011, and the broadcast has since become an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale. Official Web Site

One Show Only! EDINA THEATRE
Screening Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 11:00am!

For tickets and info, click
https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/%28S%28s0g2wscvxsmk3txnoptbkqqe%29%29/Ticketing.aspx?ShowDate=11/16/2014&TheatreID=266

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

 

Robert DeNiro as The Creature in Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

 

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Today’s Quote:

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.  ~Thomas Jefferson

Today’s allusion:

Skeletons in the closet

Today’s Words of the Day

onerous

droit

dissemble

Group Check-in:

1. Weekend
2. Lit. Theory paper topics, etc.
   

Class Plan:

1. ALLUSION OF THE DAY / WORDS / HW
   
2. ANNOUNCEMENTS–questions on buybacks
   
3. discuss Kubla Khan and Coleridge’s poetic approximation of music
4. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!  For an “interesting” interpretation of Kubla Khan, click here:http://www.sesk.org/Aesthetics/Literature/English/Romantics/Coleridge/KublaKhan.htm           
5. discuss Victor’s school days at Ingolstadt and alchemy along with how that aspect of natural philosophy is still present today

HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

1. Stamp homework for F5–“Kubla Khan” and Coleridge
   

HOMEWORK:You’ll need your LBT book and novel this weekend to do the homework.

1. ASSIGNMENT F6 Frankenstein   Read chapters six through ten (pages 62-92) and do FIG questions.

2. Assignment F7–Byron and Shelley–Groups A & B (Alphonse and Belrive) do Byron material (PLUS ADD THE CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE PASSAGE AND QUESTIONS) and groups C & D do Shelley material including “To a Skylark.”   Everyone does the “Ozymandias” selection in the LBT book (which is part C of the assignment in the packet).  “Ozymandias” will be central to our discussion on Monday morning.

3.  

   EXTRA CREDIT PARK SQUARE THEATER LETTER DUE MONDAY!

   Type a letter of feedback (You may either email the letter or give Wally a hard copy) of at least one side of a page (worth one 5 point EC coupon) to someone involved in your Park Square experience seeing and participating in 33 Variations workshops this week.

   Address the feedback letter to ONE of the following:

   1. Mary Finnerty (Educational Programs Director)

   2. James Rocco (Director of 33 Variations)

   3. to one of your workshop teachers–Brian (USC) or Tessie (Make-up), Brian (Rapier),

   4. to one of the actors:

   Nate Cheeseman (Mike)

   Robert-Bruce Brake (Schindler)

   Irina Elkina (pianist)

   Karen Landry (Dr. Brandt)

   Jennifer Maren (Clara)

   Michelle Myers (Gertie)

   Peter Simmons (Diabelli)

   Edwin Strout (Beethoven)

4.   Lit. Theory Paper  Due Wednesday, November 13th!  Pink sheet due Wednesday, Nov. 6th.
   

   1. To print out a copy of the purple Lit. Theory packet, click HERE.  To print out a copy of the Lit. Theory paper packet, click HERE. To read a sample feminism paper, click 2011 Lit Theory paper sample Femininism Snow White YANCY &….  To read a sample reader-response paper, click HERE. 

      To read a sampling of the articles available for each of the theories (you can get the rest from Wally’s room in the bins), click on the theory: formalism, reader response, psychoanalytic criticism, feminist (gender) criticism, Marxism, deconstruction, new historicism.  To read the credentials of most of the authors of the Lit. Theory assigned articles, click HERE.  To use a template to modify to send an e-mail requesting credentials, click HERE.  

      Pink slip on ideas/plan for Lit theory paper topic–click HERE.

      1. ORDER TO TURN IN THE PAPER:

         • everything goes in folder (if partners, put both folders inside each other)

         • grading sheet with comment box filled out

         • the paper (with 3 doc checks highlighted–one from the explanation of theory section, one from the retelling of the story section, and one from the analysis section)

         • works cited

         • source(s) from class used (no need to highlight)

         • all other sources (highlight)

         • the folk/fairy tale (no need to highlight)

         • • LIT THEORY PAPER RED REMINDERS (rev. 03.26.12): 

           • 1.  NOTE ABOUT THE SOURCES WE PROVIDED: the Bressler, Appleman, and Dobie TITLED articles are from books on literary theory.  The TITLED articles by Smith and Murfin appear in the back of either Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Hamlet by William Shakespeare.  Follow the format in the Survival Manual pp. WC 17-18 for “When you use only a titled chapter or titled article in a book or pamphlet.” Mary Shelley’s name and William Shakespeare’s name will appear on your works-cited page but NOT in any parenthetical references.  By the way, her name is spelled SHELLEY.

           • 2.  Stories in anthologies are in quotation marks.   ex. “Cinderella”    Stories that are published as books are italicized.   ex.  Cinderella

           • 3.  For a copy of how the paper should be organized, click HERE.

           • 4.  If you do the paper with a partner, turn in one copy of the paper, with both names listed in the heading.  For the pagination, type both last names with an “and” in between them.  Turn in one grading sheet, but make sure both of you have put your comments in the comment box.  The paper should be slipped into both folders.

           • 5.  Here’s how you write the following:  PhD or  master’s degree or MA.

           • 6.  Be consistent with capitalization.  Either use “Reader Response” or “reader response”  or as an adjective “reader-response theory.”  Pay attention to how your sources capitalize the theories.  Pick a style and be consistent.

           • 7.  ABOUT HIGHLIGHTING ON PAPER AND SOURCES (updated 3.26.2012)

             • the paper:   be sure to highlight–in THREE different colors– your 3 doc. checks– #1 from body section 1 (explaining the theory) #2 from section 2 (retelling story) and doc. check #3 from section 3 (analysis)

             • works cited:  be sure to highlight each doc. check.

             • source(s) from class used (highlight any doc. checks and label #)

             • all other sources  (highlight any doc. checks and label #)

             • the folk/fairy tale  (no need to highlight)

             If the folk/fairy tales are not paginated, please do so in pencil on the pages OR use post-its.☺

           • 8.  Make sure you punctuate dialogue and any stage directions correctly.  Make sure you use the Survival Manual pages GRS 11-13 to help you do this.

           • 9.  Be sure you document the storyline frequently in the section where you are retelling the story.  Unless you have a direct quote, it is best to do it episodically.

           • 10.  Read the GRADING SHEET carefully,  so you don’t miss anything required.  Be sure to establish credibility–both for your narrator as well as the REAL sources you use.

           • 11.  E-mail or voice mail Wally (952 975-4303) if you have any questions.

           • 12. The paper must be turned in by 3:00 on the due date or it’s late (-10% per day late)!

           • 13.  Including THOUGHTS can be tricky. The thoughts are indicated in BLUE.

             Example writing the paper in 1st person:

             I walk into the classroom really excited about the hour I am about to spend with the students in Ms. Anderson’s Literary Theory 101 class.  I hope they will enjoy hearing about Thumbelina through feminist perspective and maybe will want to take my own online course as a result. 

             I clear my throat and say, “Good morning, class.” I wonder if anyone is listening.  I yell, “Hello!  My name is Sara Madison.”  They are still talking!  Is there no discipline in the college classrooms today?  I’ll try again.  “Quiet!” I screamed. Finally, I get their attention.

             Example writing the paper in 3rd person:

             The professor thought, “I wonder if he is actually going to ask that question.”   

             Then Professor Madison asked, “How many of you have read the story?”  She speculated that no one had.  Then she added, “Let me phrase it another way, then.” She wondered if the hour would ever end and whether teaching was really her calling after all.

             14. NOTE:  Be careful with tense!  Are you going to write the paper as the hour enfolds?  If so, you will be writing primarily in the present tense when it comes to the classroom events.  You can also choose to write the paper as if the event has already transpired; you would be reflecting back on how the events unfolded.  In that case, you would write primarily in the past tense.

             15.  Pay special attention to stories that are “compiled by” or “retold by” or “adapted by.”  They require special treatment for works cited and parenthetical documentation. See page WC 12 for how to do a translator, editor, compiler, or adapter.  

             Click  HERE for the WC (Works Cited) section–pink (rev. 11.22.09)  Also, check out the section WITH EDITOR or TRANSLATOR or COMPILER   in the PDQ section of the Survival Manual.  Click HERE for the PDQ (Parenthetical Documentation and Quotes) section–green  (rev. 11.22.09)