Honors English 9

1. Honors English 9 Week 13: April 2-6, 2012

2. Monday, April 2, 2012 Due Today: • Walk-In: • Learning Objective: • Agenda: Homework: .

3. Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Due Today: • 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 Review • Critical Review Quickwrites Homework: Critical Review Quickwrites

4. Critical Review Overview 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.

5. 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.

6. Critical Review Pre-Write • 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.

7. Wed-Thurs, April 4-5, 2012 Due Today: Critical Review Quickwrites • 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 Homework: Find a copy of your assigned review to bring in for Friday .

8. Quickwrite Discussion • 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?

9. 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.

10. Critical Review Informal Noticings • 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?

11. Critical Review Reflection • 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.

12. Critical Review Exploration Sign-Up Literary 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Performance 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Artistic 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

13. Analogies • Page 124 in Vocab Workbook and Unit One

14. Friday, April 6, 2012 Due Today: Analogies p. 126 • 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 Homework: Find and watch film adaptation by April 16th

15. Critical Review Informal Noticings • 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?

16. Movie Adaptation Viewing Homework • 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 Men • To Kill a Mockingbird • Mythology (any tale – many are available about Jason, Perseus and Hercules) • Romeo & Juliet

17. Critcally View a Film Adaptation or Related Performance to Honors Literature • Of Mice and Men • 1992 - 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 Mockingbird • 1962 Academy Award Winning Film Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and Robert Duvall (Actors) Robert Mulligan (Director)

18. Critcally View a Film Adaptation or Related Performance to Honors Literature • Romeo & Juliet • 1968 - Franco Zeffirelli (director) Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery (actors) • 1996 - BazLurman (director)LeondardoDeCaprio, 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)

19. Critcally View a Film Adaptation or Related Performance to Honors Literature • Mythology • Jason and the Argonauts (many versions . . .) • 1963 Classic • Made for TV Mini Series • Other version • Hercules • 1997 Disney John Musker & Ron Clements (director) • Other version • Pygmalion • Weird Science 1985 • Manneguin 1987 • Perseus • Percy Jackson and the Olympians the Lightning Thief (2010) • Clash of the Titans (1981 and 2010) • Wrath of the Titans (2012)

20. Links to Film Trailers OMM & TKM • Of Mice & Men 1992 - Gary Sinise http://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-Chaney-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-50th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/B000ID37RM/ref=sr_1_2_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562567&sr=1-2

21. Links to film trailers Romeo & Juliet • Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 • http://www.amazon.com/Romeo-Juliet-Leonard-Whiting/dp/B0056JJXOO/ref=sr_1_1_vod_0_lgo?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1333562271&sr=1-1 2:14 minutes • 1996 - BuzLurman (director)LeondardoDeCaprio, 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

22. Links to film trailers Romeo & Juliet • West Side Story • http://www.amazon.com/West-Side-Story/dp/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 Dead • http://www.amazon.com/Romeo-Juliet-vs-Living-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

23. 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/B000KJQ4Q0/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

24. Links to film trailers Jason & Pygmalion • 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/B000KJQ4Q0/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