NO PUDE ENVIAR CORREOS

Hola chicos

 ALGO TIENE MI COMPU, PERO NO ME DEJÓ ENVIAR CORREOS SOLO A DOS DE USTEDES, ÉSTO DICE EL CORREO Y NO SE SUBIR LA PRESENTACIÓN, PIDANLE A ADELINA Y ANGÉLICA QUE LES ENVIEN LA PRESENTACIÓN POR FAVOR.

El examen está programado para el jueves 12 de mayo, por favor estudien ésta presentación, sus apuntes y lo que hay en el blog, recuerden que éste examen vale el 40%.

Como no hay clase el jueves, tendrán que hacer tarea del blog (cuenta por la del lunes que no les coloqué).

El viernes voy a verlos para entregar unos textos, por favor Kenia pasa por mí a mi oficina cuando termine asesoría para que pasemos a tu  salón (solo serán 3 minutos).


Bibliografía que me pidieron de la clase del pasado lunes:


-AP Power Pack "English Literature & Composition", ed SPARKNOTES.
- Rankin Esthelle, L. Murphy Barbara, "Ap English Literature 2010-2011", ed. McGraw Hill.

Que tengan un lindo día, bye!!!

LITERATURE QUOTES

KNOW AND LEARN THESE LITERATURE QUOTES!!!

HUCKLEBERRY FINN:  (1 & 2)

"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs, looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed - only a little kind of a low chuckle.

This is from chapter 12 of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" which features Huck and Jim. The major theme of this book is turning one's back on the deceit and shallowness of civilisation and getting back to what is real and true. 

ANGELA'S ASHES: (3 & 4)

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived it all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

"Angela's Ashes" is the book by Irish writer Frank McCourt and spans life from his childhood in Ireland to that of his life in America. I intensely dislike the orchestrated ugliness of this book, particularly its ending, and feel it detracts from the entire work.

WINSTON CHURCHILL: (5 & 6)

"A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Churchill, statesman, politician, orator, leader of the United Kingdom through its darkest hours, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 for his many writings, which included a six volume set titled "The Second World War". His own life story makes remarkable reading.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN: (7 & 8)

"I've got to get some seeds. I've got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground.

Spoken by Willy Loman in Act Two of "Death Of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller, this work is the agonising story of one man's struggle for conception of self and what he sees as the successful life, contrasted against what is his actuality.

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: (9 & 10)

There is only now, and if two days is your life, then everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life."

For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway is the story of a young American in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. These words are spoken by the main character, Robert Jordan, in chapter thirteen, after he and Maria have made love in the heather. Dear me, how prickly.

THE GLASS MENAGERIE: (11 & 12)

"I pass the lighted windows of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of broken glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colours, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder.. Oh Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be!...I speak to the nearest stranger, anything that can blow your candles out!...Blow out your candles, Laura - and so goodbye."

This work by Tennessee Williams tells of a family trapped in destructive behaviour patterns. The quote is from Tom, many years later, long after he has left the home of his youth, turning his back on them all.

THE GREAT GATSBY: (13 & 14)

If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay...You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.

The main theme in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that which runs through many of the mighty American novels - that of the disillusionment of the great American Dream. For Gatsy, in this novel, Daisy represents this dream and its disillusionment.

 HENRY V: (15 & 16)

 "I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The games afoot: Follow your spirit; and upon this charge, Cry 'God for Harry! England and Saint George!

This stirring speech is from Shakespeare's Henry V, Act 3, Scene I. Another jolly battle and more blood and guts. Tallyho, boys!

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST: (17 & 18)

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Written by the brilliant Oscar Wilde, these words are spoken by Lady Bracknell in Act One of "The Importance of Being Ernest". This amusing and clever play deals with several characters maintaining false identities to avoid all the rigid social and moral expectations of that time in Victorian England. And didn't poor old Oscar find that out big time.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: (19 & 20)

"What worries me, Billy," she said - I could hear the change in her voice - "is how your mother is going to take this.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey is a powerful novel about the individual's struggle against the authority and repression and conformity that society demands - symbolised in the book by one man's struggle against the nurse in control of an insane asylum.

HOMEWORK

Each quote has two numbers of your class list, find your number and investigate some more about the author or literary work that corresponds to you. (blog May 9th)

British Literature Project

Renaissance Man ("Blister in the Sun" by the Violent Femmes)

CALENDAR ACTIVITIES

  April 18 - 23, 2011  

April 18

Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride in 1775.

Through the study of Paul Revere, students learn about primary source documents while researching their family histories, with which they create and compare their family trees.

 

The son of a French immigrant, Paul Revere worked as a gold- and silversmith for more than 40 years in Boston, Massachusetts. In the years before the revolution, Revere gathered intelligence information by "watching the Movements of British soldiers," as he wrote in a personal account of his ride. Although he was joined by William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott, it is Paul Revere who is generally remembered for making this historic midnight ride.

http://www.americanrevolution.org/revere.html

April 20

Celebrate author Mary Hoffman's birthday today.

Students write original picture books based on their own aspirations and dreams and share with the class or with younger students.

  Mary Hoffman, author of the Amazing Grace book series, was born in England in 1945. Hoffman has authored more than 80 children's books, including the Stravaganza series of fantasy novels for young adults, several story collections, as well as a number of nonfiction titles for children and adults. Stravaganza: City of Masks was on the New York Public Library's 2003 Stuff for the Teen Age list.

April 21

Barbara Park, author of the Junie B. Jones series, was born on this day.

Students write their own "Junie B." stories, based on the Junie B. Jones series, after brainstorming issues they've experienced during the school year.

 

Barbara Park is the author of over two dozen Junie B. Jones books, as well as several stories for older readers including My Mother Got Married and Other Disasters, Skinnybones, and Mick Harte Was Here. Park's books have earned a number of awards, including many children's choice and parents' choice award lists. Titles in the Junie B. Jones series continue to appear on bestseller lists.

April 22

Celebrate Earth Day!

In celebration of Earth Day, students research famous environmentalists and write letters to them asking for their opinions on current issues and turn their letters into a poem.

 

Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day in 1970. In the same year, Denis Hayes coordinated the first Earth Day in the United States. As a result of Earth Day, many environmental laws were passed and the Environmental Protection Agency was created.

April 23

In 1564, William Shakespeare was born on this day.

Based on grade level, students learn about rhyming structure, experiment with the Shakespearean Insult Kit, or study scenes from Othello and watch an adaptation of that scene from the movie O.

William Shakespeare is the most widely taught playwright in the English language. By 1588, Shakespeare had left his wife and children to live in London as an actor. During the next ten years, he became a successful playwright, performing for the royal court and building a new theater called the Globe. He retired to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1616, where he died soon after. Since that time, few young students of English literature have not heard the line, "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"





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HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY 14th

What is Musical Theatre?

Musical theatre is defined as the presentation of a story using the elements of music, singing, dancing, on a stage in front of a live audience. This art of telling stories either through or with songs dates back to time immemorial. The ancient Greeks included music and dance in many of their stage comedies and tragedies as early as the 5th Century B.C. Staged in open-air amphitheatres, these plays featured humor, political and social satire, jugglers, and anything else that might entertain the masses. While these plays had no direct effect on the development of musical theatre as we know it, they prove that musicals have been around for at least 2500 years.

*WRITE 3 FEATURES ABOUT MUSICAL THEATRE (1)

History of Musical Theatre

The origins of the musical trace all the way back to story telling ballads. The ballads were stories in songs, passed down orally from generation to generation. In 1597, Dafne, the first opera emerged. Like ballads, opera told stories through music. However, opera is written down and performed on stage. And from opera, the operetta, literally meaning “little opera”, developed. Relative to its predecessor, operettas dealt with less serious topics and used more dialogue.

Finally, in 1866, the very first musical, The Black Crook by Charles M. Barras and Giuseppe Operti, was performed in New York. However, American musical theatre did not establish its own identity until after the turn of the twentieth century.

George M. Cohan--librettist, lyricist, and composer, was a powerful influence in creating a truly native musical art form, his dialogue, lyrics, and melody had the spirit of energy and pride that were unmistakably American. Any plot, however improbable, was possible just so long as it could be the frame for songs and dances. For many years, American musicals were governed by this principle.

The greatest revolution in American musical theatre up to that time came in 1927 with Show Boat, by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern. The show featured popular music, such as jazz and gospel, which parated Show Boat from both operetta and all the musicals before it.

 Then came the first of the Rodgers and Hammerstein masterworks, Oklahoma!, in 1943, with which musical theatre finally became a significant American art form. According to Rodgers, “By opening the show with the woman alone onstage and the cowboy beginning his song offstage, we did more than set a mood; we were, in fact, warning the audience, 'Watch out! This is a different kind of musical.” The national tour of Oklahoma! ran for an unprecedented ten years, playing before a combined audience of more than ten million people. In 1955, Oklahoma! was made into a film where it also found great success.

During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, popular music began to change with rock ‘n roll becoming more mainstream. This trend influenced musicals such as West Side Story (1957) and Bye Bye Birdie (1960) to feature more popular, contemporary music. Hair in 1968 continued this movement by incorporating rock music and storylines based on the hearts of the younger generation.

And setting a pattern that would redefine Broadway, Cats premiered in 1982, introducing opulent sets, extravagant costumes and makeup, and over-the-top special effects. The visual spectacle was unlike the painted backdrops and simple costumes seen in the past. Cats has now become the longest-running show in Broadway history.

Then came Rent in 1996, which revolutionized the very concept of musical theatre around the world. Rent blended pop, dance, salsa, rhythm and blues, gospel, and rock music together to tell its moving tale of hopes and dreams, while also addressing the serious and controversial issues of homelessness, AIDS, and drug addiction. Rent not only challenged the mainstream, but reinvented it. Shows following Rent such as Ragtime (1998) and Wicked (2003) also contained intricate storylines and unique styles of music, while addressing social and political issues.

*MAKE A TIME LINE ABOUT HISTORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE (15 cm OF WIDTH), SEND IT TO MY OFFICE BEFORE 6:00 pm.