EXAMPLE OF LITERARY DEVICES
SUMMER READING UNIT
An Inspector Calls
PART 1
PART 2
Take a look at an original 2015 production by triple Oscar nominated Director Stephen Daldry. Unfortunately it's just the trailer.
Yet here's an unforgettable scene. Bet you remember these words!
Now let's find some connections across texts and genres!
Relate the themes and characters in the play with Phil Collins' Another Day in Paradise. Here's the original video clip:
And now movie time: How does the movie Freedom Writers explore the theme of moral responsibility?
Meet the real Erin Gruwell and listen to her amazing recount of how she decided to become a catalyst for change.
Her words can't leave us unmoved. What is each one of us going to stand up for this year?
Unit 1: The art of narrating
Watch this 4 minute video about Edgar Alan Poe's life. Write down at least 3 things you learnt about his life.
POINT OF VIEW in POE's The Tell Tale Heart
Watch the following animated adaptation and find 3 ways in which the film is similar and 3 ways in which it is different from the story.
SETTING in RAY BRADBURY'S The Pedestrian
Comment on this adaptation of the story by a young film maker. Refer to use of Camera, Color, Character, Sound and Story to create SETTING. How effective is it? Justify your answer.
Keep on reading!!! Here are other Very Short Stories For High School & Middle School
Unit 2 : The Power of Words
The play we will be reading this year is William Shakespeare's RICHARD III. Take a look at some of the following images and predict what the play will be about.
The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown brings together four filmed adaptations of Shakespeare's History Plays - Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, and Henry V. Starting in the year 1399, this continuous story of monarchy follows events during sixteen years of dynastic and political power play. Kings, with their families and followers, are threatened by rebellion and conflict. The story takes us from the Royal Court at Westminster to battlefields in England and France. These rich films are woven with the finest of Shakespeare's poetry and are filmed in the architecture and landscape of the period.
All the episodes of The Hollow Crown are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part I, Henry VI, Part II, Henry VI, Part III and Richard III. They are based on Shakespeare's first tetralogy: Henry VI, Part I, Henry VI, Part II, Henry VI, Part III and Richard III
Let's watch a few scenes from the series episodes on Richard III and analyse the way in which the film makers have conveyed the character of Richard as well as the setting and context of the play. Focus on camerawork, sound, color and mise en scene.
The first clip reveals Richard's dream of power before the actual play begins. Clip 2 portrays Richard's soliloquy at the beginning of the play and clip 3 the scene when he betrays his brother Clarens.
LOOKING FOR RICHARD is not a film version of the play about Shakespeare's hunchbacked villain. (For that, you can consult Laurence Olivier's 1955 version, or Ian McKellen's 1995 film that transposed the action to a neo-Nazi 1930's England). If you add up all the line readings and scene snippets and occasional extended sequences, Pacino and his fellow actors do succeed in performing perhaps a fourth of the play, but their acting is mostly for the purposes of discussion and demonstration: This is a film about how to act and produce Shakespeare. It is also, not incidentally, a documentary about some days in the life of an actor who loves his craft and brims with curiosity and good humor.
The camera follows Pacino for months or even years (his hair grows and is cut, his beard appears and disappears) as he discusses “Richard III” in workshops and coffee shops, in Central Park and inside Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon (where the crew sets off a fire alarm).
Al PACINO explains what the purpose of this Docudrama is:” It’s always been a dream of mine
to communicate how I feel about Shakespeare to other people. So I asked my
friend, Frederick Kimble, who is an actor and writer and also our colleagues,
Michael Hadge and James Bulleit to join me, and by taking this one play, Richard
111,and by analysing it, approaching it from different angles, (here Pacino holds up a copy of cliff notes
on Richard 111---a contemporary but menial source of understanding of Shakespeare) putting on costumes, playing
out scenes, we could communicate our passion for it, our understanding that we
have come to, and by doing that communicate a Shakespeare that is how we feel
and how we think today. Now that’s the effort we’re going to give it here.
Click on the link above and watch the initial soliloquy from minute 12 to minute 17. Pay special attention to the transformation undergone by the actor as he reveals his plans and intentions. How does Pacino's performance compare with Cumberlach's in The Hollow Crown episode? Which do you prefer? Why?
If you go to minute 21, you can also compare the scene when Richard betrays his brother Clarence.
40:23 Lady Anne in mourning for her father in law Henry VI, meets Richard. Don't miss this version of the wooing scene!!!
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
- Compare and contrast two book covers.
- Here's a link to the AUDIO BOOK
- A GOOD POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
- QUIZ YOURSELF: Chapters 1 to 6
- STUDY NOTES
- Choose a scene and compare and contrast book and film (either version)
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