English 20-1-07S: Technology Discussion Follow-up

As my promised follow-up to our raging discussion of technology, here is the interview with Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.  Advance the clip to 24:45 for the Zittrain interview:

English 20-1: Arthur Miller Talks Crucible

Here are a couple of video clips that feature Arthur Miller talking about The Crucible:

Advance this clip to 35:58 to see the interview with Arthur Miller, Richard Eyre, and Laura Linney:

English 30-1AP: Views of Hamlet, Act 4 and 5

English 30-1AP: Bloom on Hamlet and Shakespeare

Harold Bloom, the subject of your brain gym exercises, talking about his book Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, and Shakespeare in general.

ADVANCE THE CLIP to the 14:30 mark for the Bloom interview.

English 30-1AP: Views of Hamlet, Act 3

First, multiple versions of THE soliloquy:

And, some other scenes from Act 3:

English 20-1: Quotation Marks in Dialogue

Here’s an excellent guide to using quotation marks properly when you’re writing dialogue.  BE SURE to review this before you hand in your imitation responses! 

http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/page13.html

English 30-1AP: Views of Hamlet, Act 2

Here are some clips of Act 2 from a variety of films and stage productions:

Once again, here are different versions of Hamlet’s Act 2 soliloquy:

English 30-1AP: Views of Hamlet, Act 1

Fresh from the interweb, here are a series of clips from different film/stage productions of Hamlet.  Enjoy!

Three views of the Ghost scene — very, very different from each other!

 

Different versions of Hamlet’s first soliloquy, from 1.2:

This is trippy — Olivier, Gibson, and Branagh spliced together!

Kenneth Branagh talking about 1.5, the scene with Hamlet and the Ghost:

English 20-1: Brain Gym Vocabulary Set #2 Exercises

English 20-1 BRAIN GYM WORKOUT WORDS     SET TWO:  ADJECTIVES

EXERCISE ONE:  Write a sentence on the given topic, making use of the adjective given.

outer space           ABJECT                 

bunnies                  ACERBIC

hockey                  APATHETIC              

justice                    ARCHAIC             

marriage               BANAL                 

Australia                BENIGN

comic books           CALLOUS    

pencils                   CAPRICIOUS

chocolate               CLANDESTINE       

greeting cards       DAUNTING

EXERCISE TWO:  Write a sentence that uses the given adjective correctly AND the given punctuation mark(s) correctly.

DEFERENTIAL          colon

ECLECTIC               two dashes

EGREGIOUS                   colon

ELOQUENT            two dashes

EXPEDIENT             colon          

FALLACIOUS                   two dashes

FLAGRANT            colon

FORLORN             two dashes

FRUGAL                colon          

GRATUITOUS        two dashes

English 20-1: Notebook Hand-in #1 List

Here’s what will be part of your first notebook check tomorrow:

BRAIN GYM

*  vocabulary set #1 exercises #1, #2, #3, #4 (Sept. 8, Sept. 9, Sept. 10, Sept. 11 — SEE BELOW)

*  semi-colon/colon practice (Sept. 15 — SEE BELOW)

*  “Refresh, Refresh” practice paragraphs

* vocabulary set #2 exercises #1, #2

READER RESPONSE

All My Sons questions

“Love in L.A.” responses

“Popular Mechanics” / “Girl” imitation responses

“Born Bad” / “Mr. Nobody at All” imitation responses