Sunday, 7 June 2020

Lesson for June 8, 2020

Question of the Day:  This is Water Safety Week.  Can you swim?  If not, does it worry you?  If yes, how did you learn?  Do you like boats?  Describe a time you went on a boat.  I can swim but not well.  I took swimming lessons and failed but a couple of weeks after the failure, I figured it out but I am not a strong swimmer at all.  Once when I was in Greece, we went on a boat tour of Santorini (a beautiful place) and at one spot, they stopped outside a hot spring and said we had to swim in -- the boat was too big to maneuver into the narrow channel.  I jumped into the water, but then realized I couldn't swim all the way and got back in the boat.  I was a bit cheesed at myself for not being able to go.

Warm-up:  
Art 8:  Make a picture that explores a metaphor.  It can be realistic or abstract (many of you noticed that the Rothko painting I showed you when we started Art was expressing an emotion).  It can be a watercolour painting or can use other colours or can be a pencil drawing or a collage with pictures cut out of magazines or copied from websites or different colours of paper glued on a page.  Or it can be a photograph of something!  (Tell me the metaphor.)  Send me the picture by Wednesday.

Here is mine.  I found a photo in a magazine and tried to copy it.  I'm calling it "Aspirations".


Drama 9/10, Theatre Production 11:
Make sure you are figuring out your character (the list is posted on the blog on June 1 -- your character's name is with your class and starts with the same letter as your first name.  There are questions to answer about the character on the blog the next day.)

Answer the question of the day AS YOUR CHARACTER.  Send me your answer.

If I answered as my character, I would say, "uh, well, who wants to know if I can swim?  Uh, okay, I can swim very well.  Very quickly, so don't try to get away if I have to chase you.  Ha ha.  I'm just kidding!  No reason I'd have to chase you, right?  Haha!  But of course, I can swim.  I've been on lots of boats.  I did some training-- uh, well, I was in cadets, of course.  Uh, sea cadets.  Nothing strange about that, is there?"

Lesson:
Art 8:  Your landscape and still life are due.
Drama 9/10:  Let me know which scene you've chosen.  Start learning the lines by saying them out loud.  Learn both parts.
Theatre Production 11:  You should have finished the ten fun facts and be nearly finished your recreation of the theatre.  You need to start working on the costume part.


Thursday, 4 June 2020

Truth or consequences!

Question of the Day:  When was the last time you were in trouble?  What was the consequence?  I don't get in "trouble", really, because no one is the boss of me!  (Ha ha.)  But I had a big disagreement with a friend of mine, and they said, "surprisingly, we disagree" (this was over email -- but I could still tell they were being ironic) and now, they're not talking to me!  That's okay.  I was right, anyway!

Warm-up: 
Drama 9/10, Theatre Production 11:  (Theatre production, you're doing the role play, too, so make sure you look at your character!)  What does your character do in his/her spare time?  What music does she/he listen to?  What is her/his favourite food?  What is his/her favourite game?  Try to act like your character for a little bit over the weekend.  You can tell people what you're doing, just so they don't think you're crazy.

Art 8:  Go on working on your still life.  Do some experimenting.  I showed you today the one I did that I didn't like (with the blue cloth, which didn't work at all).  I don't love the pepper and onions, either, so I might do another one this weekend.

Lesson:
Drama 9/10:  Read the scenes out loud.  Think about which one you would like to perform.  There are three for grade 9's and 2 for grade 10's.  Pick only one.

Theatre Production 11:  Send me the text from yesterday (as an email, not a text) from your character that explains that you have to stay late after school.  Then, work on the theatre history project.  You should probably be working on the theatre reconstruction by now.

Art 8:  Work on your landscape.
Can you name the five elements of art that we have looked at already?  (We will finish with three-dimensional art and talk about the last two elements, which are form and space.)

Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. (Emily Dickinson)

Question of the day:  What are you hopeful about?

Warm-up:  
Drama 9/10; Theatre Production 11:
Keep trying to internalize your character.  Throughout the day, imagine what your character would do?  If she was looking through Netflix to choose a show which one would she watch (not you, your character).
Imagine a text your character would send to their parents to tell them you have to stay late at school.  Send the text to me (not as a text, as an email).  Actually do this.

Warm-up:
Art 8:  Still Life
Still Life means you have something to paint that isn't moving around or changing.  Find something that doesn't move (some fruit, flowers, a plant, some cloth).  Arrange it nicely and make a painting out of it.

Examples:
https://images.app.goo.gl/DwkJ7pSNaiSYd6Zm9
https://images.app.goo.gl/VzkFFBaQbTvnJvL67
Paul Cezanne and A.Y. Jackson

Lesson:
Art 8:  Work on your landscape or your still life.  (Remember, you shouldn't be doing more than 3 hours of school work TOTAL in the day, so give yourself time.)
Theatre Production 11:  Theatre History Project
Drama 9/10:
Read the following scenes.  What's happening?


Shakespeare Scenes – Grade 9

Macbeth

M:  I have done the deed.
            Didst thou not hear a noise?

LM:  I heard the owl scream and the cricket cry.
            Did not you speak?

M:  When?

LM:  Now.

M:  As I descended?

LM:  Aye.

M:  Hark!   Who lies in the second chamber?

LM:  Donalbain.

M:  This is a sorry sight.

LM:  A foolish thought to say a sorry sight.


Hamlet
B:  Who’s there?

F:  Nay, answer me.  Stand and unfold yourself.

B:  Long live the king!

F:  Bernardo?

B:  He.

F:  You come most carefully on your hour.

B:  ‘Tis now struck twelve;  get thee to bed, Francisco.

F:  For this relief, much thanks.  ‘Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart.

B:  Have you had quiet guard?

F:  Not a mouse stirring.


Romeo and Juliet

S:  Do you bite your thumb at us, Sir?

A:  I do bite my thumb, sir.

S:  Do you bite your thumb at us, Sir?

A:  No, Sir.  I do not bite my thumb at you, Sir, but I bite my thumb, Sir.

S:  Do you quarrel, Sir?

A:  Quarrel, Sir.  No, Sir.

S:  If you do, Sir, I am for you.  I serve as good a man as you.

A:  No better.

S:  Yes, better, Sir.

A:  You lie.


S:  Draw if you be a man.

Shakespeare Scenes – Grade 10

Hamlet

Ophelia:          My lord, I have remembrances of yours,
                        That I have long long’d to redeliver;
                        I pray you now, receive them.

Hamlet:           No, no.  I never gave you aught.

Ophelia:          My honour’d lord, you know right well you did;
                        And, with them, words of so sweet breath compos’d
                        As made the things more rich:  their perfume lost,
                        Take these again; for to the noble mind
                        Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
                        (she gives him the gifts he gave her)  There, my lord.

Hamlet:           Ha, ha!  Are you honest?

Ophelia:          My lord?

Hamlet:           Are you fair?

Ophelia:          What means your lordship?

Hamlet:           That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.  (He looks at her with suspicion.) . . . I did love you once.

Ophelia:          Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.

Hamlet:           You should not have believed me . . . I lov’d you not.


Othello:

Iago:                My noble lord—

Othello:           What dost thou say, Iago?

Iago:                Did Michael Cassio, when you woo’d my lady,
                        Know of your love?

Othello:           He did, from first to last:  why does thou ask?

Iago:                But for a satisfaction of my thought;
                        No further harm.

Othello:           Why of thy thought, Iago?

Iago:                I did not think he had been acquainted with her.

Othello:           Oh yes, and went between us very oft.

Iago:                Indeed!

Othello:           Indeed!  Ay, indeed; -- discerns’t thou aught in that?
                        Is he not honest?

Iago:                Honest, my lord?

Othello:           Honest!  Ay, honest!

Iago:                My lord, for aught I know.

Othello:           What dost thou think?

Iago:                Think, my lord?

Othello:           Think, my lord.  By heaven he echoes me.  . . . If thou dost love me,
                        Show me thy thought.

Iago:                My lord, you know I love you.

Othello:           I think thou dost.

Iago:                For Michael Cassio,
                        I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.

Othello:           I think so too.

Iago:                Men should be what they seem.