I wanted to thank you all for your hard work with your presentations. The key feedback is to use the guidance sheet we have agreed - you all have a copy of this.
You need to remember that when we have finished these presentations, we will work together to select / edit / adapt to form the basis of the main presentation you will be giving to the otehr half of the class. The format of this and the content will be taken from the work we have done to date. There is much great work & ideas being generated.
Please remember the following guidelines to raise the quality of textual analysis:
1. What shakespeare does - brief plot overview
2. How he does it - language analysis, audience / performer interaction
3. Intended impact / effect on the audience - successful??
4. Why he does this - authorial intention - message
Keep up the good work. I think you are a fantastic group of students & a pleasure to teach.
I think for our presentations to the other group we should include an extract from Hamlet recorded in the chrome key room.
ReplyDeleteI also think we should use videos from youtube to protray the story line.
i think we should include in our presentation to the other class, some humour. as monotonous presentations are completely boring. so, for example: some fun activities, if people are up for doing a modern version of hamlet with chavvy clothing or something, subliminal messages, and of course briberies! :')
ReplyDeleteI think we should include a summary of the whole play to introduce the other class to hamlet using a recorded mini play in the chrome key room. Also we should try and be more interactive with the audience, maybe include a few games?
ReplyDeleteI agree that making the presentations interactive and with activities that involve the other half of the class is a good idea. All of your suggestions are workable - we have an entire lesson to explore the play with them and also showcase your workk / thoughts / ideas for Hamlet. Video clips, filming, creating a canon, creating 'reason ' parchments to go in the canon. All great ideas. The main thing is that you all need to be experimental, innovative in your work - THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO WHAT YOU CAN DO - so show off.
ReplyDeleteFinalising Idea's.
ReplyDeleteThese are the things that we decided upon on Monday 8th November.
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What are we going to do
- Overall summary and overview
- Explain key themes.
- Summary in the video camera in a film trailer format.
- Act out key scenes?
- "Universal colour scheme" - Jenny.
How can we make it interactive?
- Quiz in a University Challenge format -(briberies?)
- Subliminal Messages.
- Invite Mr Baxters, SLT's, Invitations.
- Feedback.
- Miming?
- Soliloquys from scenes.
"Acts are our own responsibility" - Rivalry between each other and the other group.
Refer back to the Canon, the main key question of the whole presentation is "Why is Hamlet the best tragedy in the Canon". We could also animate this by having a Canon onstage, and putting little scrolls into it with our reasons and then overviewing it at the end.
At the moment we have decided to analyse acts as small groups, but then alternate and come back as a big group and share our idea's and whatnot.
Act 1 - Cassie + Megan
Act 2 - Kiara + Ellen
Act 3 - Georgina + Charlotte
Act 4 - Jenny, Helen, Antonia + Sophie.
Act 5 - Kirsty + Jack.
Our main priority at the moment is to do the script for the film trailer, to analyse soliloquys and acts, and to work out how to put all of these things above into one smooth rehearsed AMAZING piece of work!
- Lizzy
YEAR 11 ENGLISH
ReplyDeleteAgreed format of lessons
1.Start of lessons (10 minutes)
•groups give overview of work / research completed for homework
•Lizzy Lee collate / allocate aims for the work this lesson
2. Main part of the lesson (35 minutes)
•Allocated groups prepare the research / material / resources as agreed
•Set tasks for CMB
3.Plenary
•Recap of research / progress – including concerns / queries
•Agree focus for homework
•Set tasks for CMN
LIMITATIONS
ReplyDeleteAs a group we have decided that there will be a limitation on the amount of quoutes as according to Georgina and Charlotte their scene is massive.
So:
- A limit to two quoutations per theme, or per scene.
- This does not exclude soliloquys, as we're trying to keep the presentation short but effective.
Sophie - you are really organisingthis and keeping a clear focus on the task ahead. I think you are becoming very responsible and I love the way the group of students work together. Some important decisions are being made. Well done!!
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