Thursday, April 25, 2013

April 25/26 Block Days, Luhrmann versus Zeffirelli


Essential Question: What strategies might help us to better understand drama and, specifically, Shakespeare’s plays?
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Interpretation. An interpretation is the act of making meaning from something, such as a text, film, or play. An interpretation can become one actor's version of a role or one director's version a play or film.
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I. Do Now: Quiz (8 minutes). In complete sentences, explain the differences in the use of costume, music/sound, and setting in a scene from Romeo and Juliet in Baz Luhrmann’s and Franco Zeffirelli’s cinematic interpretations. You should identify a scene from Act I and give specific details about how each director has interpreted the original Shakespeare play. Detailed answers will receive the highest marks.
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II. You will now use your response to begin the writing process of creating a rough draft that explains the differences between Luhrmann’s and Zeffirelli’s treatment of Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet. As this is comparison and contrast type essay, let’s look at two strategies for writing such an essay.

The thesis statement for everyone’s essay ( to be included in an introductory paragraph) will be:

There are differences between the interpretations of Baz Luhrmann’s and Franco Zeffirelli’s depiction of Act 1 of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Create a Pages document and re-type this and save it as “Comparison and Contrast Essay”
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III. Read:

Comparison and Contrast
Some writers and students prefer to make up their own methods of comparing and contrasting. It is a fairly intuitive process. Since we all do these types of categorizations, consciously or subconsciously, on a daily basis, it is easy to come up with something when writing in this style.
Other students prefer, at first, to use a standard pattern that has proved successful for other writers. The two most common patterns of comparison and contrast are fairly obvious.  

Subject-by-Subject Comparison
In this style of comparison, the writer uses the first half of the essay to examine and describe the attributes of one object and the second half of the essay to compare and contrast another.
Point-by-Point Comparison
In this style of comparison, the writer alternates points---using a line or two for the first object, a line or two for the first object again, and so forth (back and forth).
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IV. Think-Pair-Share-Create: SETTING-COSTUME-MUSIC/SOUND/ Two Interpretations of a Play

Directions: The following is to be completed and handed in today at the end of class, so use your time wisely. 

______Pair-up with someone on the opposite side of the classroom and share either your thoughts (from your graphic organizers or, simply, your memory) from our two-days of viewing two cinematic interpretations of Romeo and Juliet. 

______Firstly, on a piece(s) of dot-matrix paper each person in your group of two should discuss the two versions and write down as many differences between the Zeffirelli and Luhrmann interpretation of the play. Use the “language” of a graphic organizer: ovals, circles, connecting threads...etc.. You will hand this in today.

______Secondly, choose what you two believe to be your best examples of differences between the two interpretations. I have identified the stylistic devices of costume, sound, and setting in the graphic organizer of recent but you can identify others, if you think of them?
  
______CREATE THREE PAIRS OF STORYBOARD BOXES on a separate piece of dot-matrix paper. Each pair should look like this with lines drawn on your right and left side margins to provide for your explanation of what we, everyone who looks at your storyboards, should be seeing.

Example (yours should be on a larger scale):





______Devote each pair of two boxes to the illustration of the identified scene and the stylistic devices  used; for example, these can be setting, costume and music/sound, or others?
______Pick three important scenes from Act I. Identify the differences in interpretation by Luhrmann and Zeffirelli through these director’s choices of stylistic devices.
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V. Review Homework assignment.
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VI. Exit Ticket
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Homework: For Tuesday, Complete “Ungrammaticality (in Shakespeare’s Plays): Word Order” found online at:  teamthunderenglishblog.blogspot.com/ There are ten questions. Any five are required (label). If you do all ten you will receive extra credit. Honors Challenge do all ten. HONORS CHALLENGE come up with a proposal for your video presentation ( Requirements and descriptions on class blog).

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