Read through chapter 4 by Friday!
For this week:
Monday: Quiz on chapters 1 & 2 (not graded). Discuss how the adulterated Simpsons Intro video reflects the Modernist theme of disillusionment.
Tuesday: Continue exploring film technique, symbolism, and thematic relevance via video clips; then, watch and interpret "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (see video). Break into film groups and choose films to study for modernist ideals.
Honors (optional for on-level): Discuss parallel project: Depth of Your Human Experience Reflections Project. Consider Chimamanda's TEDTalk about the depth of human experience, and create a work of art (spoken, written, performed, photographed, sang, built, painted, reworked, parodied, whatever) that reflects the depth of your experience. Submit it between now and March 17th with a blog post explaining (1) what it is about and (2) how it reflects the depth of your human experience. That is, how are YOU more than a single story?
Wednesday: 45 minutes to complete "Prufrock" analysis or work on planning Depth of Human Experience Reflections Project. Watch and discuss symbolism in The Great Gatsby - DiCaprio-style, of course :)
Thursday: Begin film critique project by finding film critiques to delineate on your blog. Afterward, with your groups, watch your assigned films and complete the analysis sheet, looking for scenes and symbolic elements that reflect a Modernist era theme.
Honors: Find opposing film critiques, and delineate the arguments in each. Cite fully!
Friday, Monday, & Tuesday: After a quiz on chapters 3 & 4, continue film critique with groups, then post this week's blog as a direct response to the points made in the film critique you found and delineated in your previous blog post. Do you agree with each argument? Disagree? Use specific evidence from the critique and the film to support your evaluation.
Here's another animated version of Prufrock.
It is very well-done and super creepy, but it is only half of the poem :/.