Wed June 8

This is my brain on Wednesday...


Here is the video we saw in class:



We did a Google search on "Mod 6 Chesser" and that was under the Video search tab. I'm sure he's a long last relative. ;)

In any case, we did a fair amount of poetry today - I took the class through my Chapbook on my laptop; it's a collection of poems, quotes and quotes of plays, novels and sundry other pieces of stuff I've read in the last 25 years. After we looked at that, we had Student Services come in and do a short presentation about signing up for next year.

After that, we talked a bit about the Novel Blog (called "Blended" in the handout) Presentation that we've got due on June 10, 13 or 14th. I will put my example under the tab at the top of the blog on the right, under "Pages". The topics are in the 1984 handout we got at the start of the unit. For me, the topic will surround what it was like for me when I first read this book in 1987. I will walk people through it as an example tomorrow.

Incidentally, I will mention these two films I saw "back in the day" about nuclear war. The first was "The Day After":



The second is "When the Wind Blows",



Incidentally, I mentioned in class that the soundtrack for this second film was by David Bowie. I was wrong, as I learned this afternoon. It was Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd fame.


On a completely different tack, here is a poll about which play we should do next:

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here are the links for each of the plays:

Richard III
Hamlet
Titus Andronicus
Death of a Salesman


I'm leave the poll open for a few days, we'll talk about it in class tomorrow, too. I think by Friday June 10th we'll know what's next.

Whew! Whassap!