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Latest Homework - for Monday May 10th!

1. Write a recipe for a brilliant play about love! - What does it take ...?

Think of

• the most important characters (and their relations to each other)
• the development of the plot
• the conflicts
• typical ingredients that draw audiences
• a breath-taking ending!

2. Prologue (Romeo and Juliet) (spoken by one actor)

Two households both alike in dignity,
In fair Vernona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which, if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

1. What is the function of this prologue in "Romeo and Juliet"??
2. Learn at least lines 1 - 8 by heart .....!

Older Homework

What is the symbolic meaning of the hotel and its inhabitants? Explain your views!

Some aspects:

• connotations of hotel (in general and in this special situation)
• who do characters stand for? (in England/generally) ==> Look at names, behaviour, relations between characters and changes

1. Read until page 56 of the drama!
2. Look at the disagreement (p. 51, l. 30 to p. 56, l. 16) between the two friends (Mrs Jones and Mrs Smith).

How do the two women's attitudes to the situation and their relation to each other change?

Is there a turning point?
Make a two-column-table (in Wiki or as .doc or .odt-document and give page/lines to support your points!)

1. What information about the hotel does Shirley give the newcomers (41 l. 21-31) and why does this arouse the curiosity of the audience? (also refer to her telephone call at the beginning! Explain the term "dramatic irony" and its use/effect in this passage!
2. Explain Mrs Smith's remark "After all we are in England" (p. 45, l. 1) and Mrs Blake's reply "I am deaf in one ear. I am blind in one eye. I see what I want to see. I hear what I want to hear"!

England stands for being organized, tolerant, civilized, cultivated, helpful, polite, reliable, something like this doesn´t happen in England Mrs Blake is ignorant, intolerant, self-centered, she knows sth. but doesn´t want to tell that, rude, impolite Mrs Brown is professional,

1. What are Mrs Blake's and Shirley's views of all Smiths on p. 46 l.23 - p. 51, l. 12? (Use a two-column-table and give page/lines to support your points). It would be nice if someone put this table onto their Wiki page ...!

• Video: Characterization in Romeo and Juliet!

Watch the scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (ActII, Scene 5) in the video clip!

1. Note down how you would chracterize Juliet and her nurse! What dramatic techniques and conventions do the actors use?
2. Now read the scene while you are listening (to the video) and add some more aspects to your characterizations of Juliet and her nurse! Also complete your analysis of how the characterization is achieved!

Comment

Are we "clever enough" to avoid falling into "the sex trap" in advertising?

Use one of the following adverts and apply the full set of analytical tools to it! Write your findings into your user-page. To do that copy the "code" of the following table to your userpage.

• Against Prostitution
• Guinness
• Levis1
• Levis 2
• DIY Advert
• Buckle up ...
• Wellies
• Reggaefest
• Men's Underwear
• Sportswear

This is the (half empty) table that you should first copy to your user page. After that, work inside your user-page (not here!).

Read the article and write a paragraph by paragraph summary of how this works! Remember this method!

• How subliminal advertising works

There is a Garden in her Face:

There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heav'nly paradise is that place
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
There cherries grow which none may buy,
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

Her eyes like angels watch them still,
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry. 

Questions:

1. What is the rhyme scheme?
2. What parts of the poem are there?
3. Who is the speaker talking about and what is his “message”?
4. What images are used and what do they imply?

Essay Writing:

1. Write out the introduction for one of the quotes on your worksheet! Define, rephrase etc. the quote ...!

Write down notes for your essay ==> arguments (min. 4) + supporting points + examples

• Answer (write it down, preferably into your wiki page) questions two and three on the worksheet on Madonna's "American Life"
• It may help to listen to the song ...

• Download this mindmap!
• Read page 2 of your worksheet on "The American Dream" and try to do question 2 ==> include your findings into the mindmap. To do so (open the mindmap) you need to download "Fremind" here! and install it.
• In case you can't install freemind - just make a neat list of all your findings!

• Finish (if necessary) and prepare to present your team's definition of and presentation of "Received Pronunciation" or "Estuary English"

Learn the summary and look at the vocabulary ....!

• Vocabulary and Summary for text from Monday, 23rd November

• Finish analysis of 4 introductions: type of introduction, elements (question, ...), structure, What mistakes ???
• Write introduction to Essay! ==> Essay Topic: Every child growing up in poverty is a ticking social timebomb!
• Write out 1st argument of essay

Essay Topic: Every child growing up in poverty is a ticking social timebomb!

Translate Surprise Peace Prize Award Sets a Higher Bar for the President until "made the clear the prize was intended to encourage Obama to greatness rather than celebrate any achievement."!

Translate the paragraph from "The United States Court of Appeals" to "is not an individual right." from this article! (It's the third paragraph!)

Create a short entry in your own user page in this wiki. Use the following formats/forms

• bold and italic text
• green or red text
• a short numbered list of your thoughts on the election in Germany this weekend
• at least 4 headlines

Finally find at least 2 good English articles/webpages on what the Americans expected/hoped for from Obama and if (they think) he fulfills these hopes and expectations.

Create a numbered and annotated link collection like this for these two (or more) articles you have found.

It could look like this (if the topic was "bananas"):

1. Banana Wikipedia entry on bananas, good basic information and nice pictures
2. http://www.bananas.org/ Everything about sorts of, growing, cooking with and selling bananas. Good forums.