recent homework
| 1. Watch the video Romeo meets Juliet (Act I, scene V): |
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| 2. Read Act I, scene V, ll. 98-116 + listen to Video parallely! |
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| 3. Read ll. 98-116 again! |
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Prologue to te most lamentable story of Romeo and Juliet
Two households both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, 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.
- What is the function of this prologue?
- What can you say aubout the language and structure of these lines?
- Learn lines 1 - 8 by heart + practice reciting them .....!
Look at the collection of aspects of the drama on this/the course page page!
- What elements are used in films too?
- What additional/different possibilities does a film have + what does this mean for the audience?
If you had the money to buy a useful, efficient robot ...
- what kind of robot would you buy?
- what should it be able to do?
- what would be its most important feature?
Explain your decision!
Homework over holidays until November 13th 2012
- Finish / Write your Reading Diary / Scrap book
- Minimum requirements/questions to be answered:
- Write a review of BNW according to handout (do not include pt. 2 - summary!)
- Characterize two characters – one male, one female (round or flat, relation to each other?. Include typical quotations and explain why they are typical!
- Collect information on what life was like "before Ford" – that is before this "Brave New World"!
- What are the principles/aims of this new society/world?
If you ask people what counts in life and makes it worth living, they will often come up with these answers:
- family/relationships
- happiness
- feeling/passion
- love
- freedom
- equaility
- friendship
- truth
- art
- peace/stability
What role do these values play in the utopian society of Brave New World, or in what form do they appear? (Cf. chapter 16/17)[part of your reading diary]
- How would John OR Lenina have wished the scene in chapter 13 to be?
- Write an outline + a short dialogue of John's or Lenina's ideal evening![part of your reading diary]
Chapters 12+13
- Sketch Bernhard's development in these two chaptes (notes + pages!) [part of your reading diary]
Chapter 11
- Write a realistic diary entry for John's diary in which he notes down all the things he doesn't understand or like about the new world! - Use these notes as a starting point, but refer to the book!
Read chapter 18!
- How do you like/understand the end of this dystopian novel?
- (Re-)Read chapter 16!
If you ask people what counts in life and makes it worth living, they will often come up with these answers:
- family/relationships
- happiness
- feeling/passion
- love
- freedom
- equaility
- friendship
- truth
- art
- peace/stability
What role do these values play in the utopian society of Brave New World, or in what form do they appear? (Cf. chapter 16/17)[part of your reading diary]
- For Tuesday
- Read ch. 14
- How would John OR Lenina have wished the scene in chapter 13 to be?
- Write an outline + a short dialogue [part of your reading diary]
- Read chapters 12+13 for next Friday!
- Sketch Bernhard's development in these two chaptes (notes + pages!) [part of your reading diary]
- Read chapter 11
- Write a diary entry for John's diary in which he notes down all the things he doesn't understand or like about the new world! - Use these notes as a starting point, but refer to the book!
- Tuesday October 2nd: read ch. 8 and 9
- Chapter 8 (p. 118-120)
- - How similar are Bernhard and John really?
- - What do you think of Bernhard's scepticism in the last sentence of ch. 8?
- Read chapters 6 + 7 , Compare Bernhard and John in their way of seeing things and in terms of their position in society. What do you think about Bernhard's behavior and his motives?
- Worksheet: Narrators and points of view
- Friday: narrator + point of view in 3 texts on worksheet, too, how is style (formal/informal) linked to narrator/point of view mark relevant passages
- Tuesday: read ch 4 + 5 , find good examples of narrator + pov
