Week 13: April 2-6, 2012

Honors English 9

Walk-In:

Learning Objective:

Agenda:

Monday, April 2, 2012Due Today:

Homework:.

Walk-IN: Turn in any remaining work from your Romeo and Juliet Group Project. Script Individual Parts (casting and soundtrack)

Learning Objective:Students will begin building

background information about necessary components of a critical review.

Agenda: Introduction to Critical ReviewCritical Review Quickwrites

Tuesday, April 3, 2012Due Today:

Homework:

Critical Review

Quickwrites

The Genre A review is a shorter piece of writing with the dual

intentions of summarizing any event or subject given for public consideration as well as a forum to defend an opinion on that event or subject.

A good review should offer a judgment supported by clear and concise details and give advice to the reader about the event or subject. A good review should use language that gives consistent judgment and at the same time hooks the audience with vivid and relevant vocabulary.

Critical Review Overview

A Performance Review The review of a performance is a secondary source created after viewing an

event. This type of review summarizes the event, and gives some kind of judgment about the event itself. The review of a performance event should also include an examination through the lens of an audience perspective, but might also include an examination through the lens of other artistic perspectives as well.

A Literary Review A literary review is a secondary source created after viewing a text. A literary

review summarizes the literature, and gives some kind of judgment about the literature itself. A literary review might also include an examination through the lens of different audience perspectives.

An Artistic Review An artistic review is a secondary source created after viewing a subject (like

a painting, song, or other piece of art; could also include c.d. release or a new band). An artistic review summarizes the subject, and gives some kind of judgment about the subject itself. An artistic review might also include an examination through the lens of different audience perspectives.

Critical Review Overview

Think back to a performance that you saw recently: this may be a movie, a play, a television show, (this is what our final writing will be focusing on); or think back to a piece of art that you viewed or listened to ; or think back to a book, story, poem you recently read.

Now, your task is to write a review for this performance, piece of art, or piece of literature. Think about your experiences with reading reviews, and what a review would need to do, in order for you to attend/watch or not attend/watch.

Three skills you will need to focus on are summarizing, evaluating, and providing evidence. You have about 20 minutes to complete this.

After you are finished you may have time to read these to your groups, and notice common patterns in your writing.

Critical Review Pre-Write

Walk-In: Take out your Critical Review Quickwrites.

Learning Objective: Students will understand that determining criteria for

evaluating a literary, artistic, or performance review helps the reviewer determine what perspectives are valuable in a review.

Students will analyze mentor texts to determine the critical attributes of a critical review.

Agenda: Quickwrite Discussion Review Exemplar and Informal Noticings Definition Essay Return Analogies

Wed-Thurs, April 4-5, 2012Due Today:Critical Review

Quickwrites

Homework:Find a copy of your assigned review to bring in for Friday

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What makes something worth paying money to attend? What makes a movie/show/book/art so worthy of your time and money?

How much have you paid to see a really good movie? Have you or would you ever camped out to see a movie or concert?

What lengths would you go to in order see something for entertainment?

What would you sacrifice to see your favorite singer in concert in the front row?

Why does the public read a review of something?

Quickwrite Discussion

Why do people write reviews?

Where would you go to find a review? What do they look like? Consider a person’s resources: time, money, and technology.

Have you ever convinced your parents to pay for you to attend or convinced them to let you go to something for entertainment purposes? How did you convince them?

What would a review have to say or do to convince you to actually read, view, or attend?

What would a review have to say or do to keep you from reading, viewing, or attending?

Describe a time when you read, viewed, or attended something based on someone else’s review.

Quickwrite Discussion

While reading the following review answer the following questions:What is the topic of the review?How did the author begin the review?How much did the author summarize? What details

did he or she include? What details did he or she leave out?

What is the author’s main idea or purpose for writing the review?

How did the author support his or her perspective?How did the author end the review?How long was the review?

Critical Review Informal Noticings

After you have finished, please take out the review that you wrote on Tuesday. How would you compare your review to the one that we read

today? What similarities were there? What differences? What do you need to add or take 0ut? What techniques might your

borrow?

Looking back at your definition essay, what techniques can you transfer from that writing assignment to this one? What lessons (things you did well you should do again or things you need to improve on) can you transfer to this new writing assignment? Remember a review summarizes, evaluates, and provides and analyzes specific evidence that supports your perspective and or claim.

Critical Review Reflection

Critical Review Exploration Sign-UpPerformance1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.

Artistic1. 2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.

Literary1. 2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.

Page 124 in Vocab Workbook and Unit One

Analogies

Walk-IN: Get out the critical review that you found and vocab

workbook with p. 126 analogies.

Learning Objective: Students will analyze mentor texts for a to

determine the essential attributes of particular type of review.

Students will cooperatively identify similarities between literary, artistic and performance reviews.

Students will preview movie trailers to help identify a film adaptation to watch critically and actively record noticings.

Agenda: Group Review Noticings Movie Trailers

Friday, April 6, 2012Due Today:

Analogies p. 126

Homework:

Find and watch film adaptation

by April 16th

Sit in your designated group with people who have the same types of review as you do.

While reading the following review answer the following questions: What are the topics of the review? How did the authors begin the reviews? How much did each author summarize? What details did he or

she include? What details did he or she leave out? What is the author’s main idea or purpose for writing the

reviews? How did the authors support his or her perspective? How did the authors end the reviews? How long was the review? What were some common patterns that you saw in each review? What were some differences that you saw between the different

reviews?

Critical Review Informal Noticings

Identify a work that we read or studied this year and find a film adaptation or related performance to critically evaluate.

Consider the following works:Of Mice and MenTo Kill a MockingbirdMythology (any tale – many are available about

Jason, Perseus and Hercules)Romeo & Juliet

Movie Adaptation Viewing Homework

Of Mice and Men1992 -Gary Sinese & John Malkovich (Actors)

Gary Sinese (Director)1981 - Robert Blake & Randy Quaid (Actors),

Reza Badiyi (Director)1939 - Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney

(Actors) Lewis Milestone (Director)

To Kill a Mockingbird1962 Academy Award Winning Film

Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and Robert Duvall (Actors) Robert Mulligan (Director)

Critcally View a Film Adaptation or Related Performance to Honors Literature

Romeo & Juliet1968 - Franco Zeffirelli (director) Leonard Whiting, Olivia

Hussey, John McEnery (actors)1996 - Baz Lurman (director)Leondardo DeCaprio, Claire

Danes (actors)Many other versions of Shakespeare’s tragedy are

available

Related films and performances to Romeo & Juliet 2011 Gnomeo & Juliet James McAvoy, Emily Blunt (Voices)

Kelly Asbury (Director)2010 - Romeo & Juliet vs the Living Dead (Zombies )

Ryan Denmark (director ) Hannah Kauffmann, Jason Witter (actors)

1961 - West Side Story (Musical) Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer (Actors) Jerome Robbins(Director)

Critcally View a Film Adaptation or Related Performance to Honors Literature

MythologyJason and the Argonauts (many versions . . .)

1963 ClassicMade for TV Mini SeriesOther version

Hercules 1997 Disney John Musker & Ron Clements (director)Other version

PygmalionWeird Science 1985Manneguin 1987

Perseus Percy Jackson and the Olympians the Lightning Thief (2010)Clash of the Titans (1981 and 2010)Wrath of the Titans (2012)

Critcally View a Film Adaptation or Related Performance to Honors Literature

Of Mice & Men 1992 - Gary Sinisehttp://www.amazon.com/Of-Mice-Men-John-Malkovich/dp/B000RLKCLE/ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562399&sr=1-1

2:14 minutes

Of Mice and Men 1939 http://www.amazon.com/Mice-Men-Lon-Cha

ney-Jr/dp/B000RI6GUI/ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562458&sr=1-1

To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingbird-5

0th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/B000ID37RM/ref=sr_1_2_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562567&sr=1-2

Links to Film Trailers OMM & TKM

Franco Zeffirelli's 1968http://www.amazon.com/Romeo-Juliet-Leonar

d-Whiting/dp/B0056JJXOO/ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562271&sr=1-1 2:14 minutes

1996 - Buz Lurman (director)Leondardo DeCaprio, Claire Danes (actors)

http://www.amazon.com/William-Shakespeares-Juliet-Leonardo-DiCaprio/dp/B0012HRJEA/ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562329&sr=1-1 2:14 minutes

Links to film trailers Romeo & Juliet

West Side Story http://www.amazon.com/West-Side-Story/d

p/B0017VQB40/ref=sr_1_6_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562183&sr=1-6 2:14 minutes

Romeo & Juliet vs the Living Deadhttp://www.amazon.com/Romeo-Juliet-vs-Li

ving-Dead/dp/B004DCUJ20/ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333561564&sr=1-1 2:14 minutes

2011 Gnomeo & Juliet James McAvoy, Emily Blunt (Voices) Kelly Asbury (Director)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_L_5vrHoWQ 2:41 minutes

Links to film trailers Romeo & Juliet

2010 Clash of the Titans http://www.amazon.com/Clash-of-the-Titans/dp/B003RV43X4/

ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333561242&sr=1-1 1:04 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=movies&rental=0&uni=3&movies_browse=1&search_query=Clash+of+the+Titans

1981 Clash of the Titans http://www.amazon.com/Clash-Titans-Keep-Case-Packaging/dp/B00

0KJQ4Q0/ref=sr_1_2_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333561327&sr=1-2 2:14 minutes

  Wrath of the Titans 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHPPX6dnYU

Disney’s Hercules http://www.amazon.com/Hercules/dp/B003SI3URQ/ref=sr_1_

1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333557201&sr=1-1 1:14 minutes

Links to film trailers Perseus & Hercules

2010 Clash of the Titans http://www.amazon.com/Clash-of-the-Titans/dp/B003RV43X4/

ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333561242&sr=1-1 1:04 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=movies&rental=0&uni=3&movies_browse=1&search_query=Clash+of+the+Titans

1981 Clash of the Titans http://www.amazon.com/Clash-Titans-Keep-Case-Packaging/dp/B00

0KJQ4Q0/ref=sr_1_2_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333561327&sr=1-2 2:14 minutes

  Wrath of the Titans 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHPPX6dnYU

Disney’s Hercules http://www.amazon.com/Hercules/dp/B003SI3URQ/ref=sr_1_

1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333557201&sr=1-1 1:14 minutes

Links to film trailers Jason & Pygmalion