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Thursday, June 11, 2015 Portfolio: Final Today is the first deadline for the completed portfolio. It should be turned in today. If you need Monday to complete your work, please do so, but also please realize that you may be at an assembly. Make sure you can turn in your completed work by Monday end of day. No late work will be accepted.

HOMEWORK: Good luck on your finals!Posted byBradley Craddockat9:41 AM4 comments: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 Portfolio: Final ExamPlease continue to prepare your final portfolio.Posted byBradley Craddockat9:58 AMNo comments: Friday, June 5, 2015 Final Exam/Portfolio AssessmentPlease complete the following today in the lab:
Look through your portfolio. Remove any hand-written and homework assignments from it. Gather your fiction together, gather your poetry together, and gather your script drafts together.Print out any poem, script, or short story you wrote, but did not yet include in your portfolio.Once you havedone those three things:If you have it, take out and re-read your letter to "The Enemies of the Writing Process." How'd you do against your old enemy? Procrastinators: do not avoid this next step!Reflect on your progress as a writer this year. In a 3-4 page reflection (double spaced) reflect on your progress as a writer: what step in the writing process do you still struggle with? What part of the writing process is easy for you? What did you dowell, what do you need more work or help on, what did you learn this year about crafting yourwork as art? Reflect onyour overall growth that you feel you made this year. You may reference your English and Journalism classes as well if you'd like, but please reflect on your own growth as a creative writer. If you participated in any extra curricular activities, reflect on these too (particularly how they helped or hindered your progress as a writer).Revise and craft your best work this year. This is your final 2015 draft. Change the heading of the pieces you are submitting as BEST CRAFTED WORK. You must include at least one poem, one short story, and one script, butyou may choose several of your pieces for your final assessment. Please show ALL drafts!Use a separate manila folder for your best crafted work and your reflection essay. These will be scored and evaluated as your final exam and will be sent to Central Office as your post assessment for this class.Your portfolio (with reflection) is due as your FINAL EXAM on Monday, June 11 or June 15 whichever date works best for you. Once you're done with this portfolio, you are done with this course work. Congratulations!

HOMEWORK: Bring your portfolios/work/drafts to class to work on them. Return books to the library.Posted byBradley Craddockat9:30 AM1 comment: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 Annie Hall; Final PortfolioAfter screening Annie Hall, please complete the following:
Look through your portfolio. Remove any hand-written and homework assignments from it. Gather your fiction together, gather your poetry together, and gather your script drafts together.Print out any poem, script, or short story you wrote, but did not yet include in your portfolio.Once you havedone those three things:If you have it, take out and re-read your letter to "The Enemies of the Writing Process." How'd you do against your old enemy? Procrastinators: do not avoid this next step!Reflect on your progress as a writer this year. In a 3-4 page reflection (double spaced) reflect on your progress as a writer: what did you dowell, what do you need more work or help on, what did you learn this year about crafting yourwork as art,and reflect onyour overall growth that you feel you made this year. You may reference your English and Journalism classes as well if you'd like. If you participated in any extra curricular activities, reflect on these too(particularly how they helped or hindered your progress as a writer).Revise and craft your best work this year. This is your final 2015 draft. Change the heading of the pieces you are submitting as BEST CRAFTED WORK. You must include at least one poem, one short story, and one script, butyou may choose several of your pieces for your final assessment.Use a separate manila folder for your best crafted work and your reflection essay. These will be scored and evaluated as your final exam and will be sent to Central Office as your post assessment for this class.Your portfolio (with reflection) is due as your FINAL EXAM on Monday, June 11 or June 15.

HOMEWORK: Bring your portfolios/work/drafts to class to work on them. Return books to the library.Posted byBradley Craddockat9:24 AMNo comments: Sunday, May 31, 2015 Woody Allen: Without Feathers Test; Annie HallAfter our test today on Without Feathers and comedic techniques, please read the sample script from the film Annie Hall.
please review theAnnie Hallmaterials below:
Further information aboutAnnie Hall can be found here at IMDB.com.
Annie Hall Script
Annie Hall explanation/film history

Often cited as one of the best 100 films of all time,Annie Hallwon four Oscars:

Best Actress: Diane Keaton
Best Director: Woody Allen
Best Picture: Charles Joffe
Best Screenplay: Woody Allen Marshall Brickman
Woody Allen was also nominated for Best Actor.

As you watch the film, note the following:

--This plot is an archetype of the Romance plot: boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back after much ado.
--Much of the humor revolves around the film'sDiegesis(the world of the film). Note when the script breaks this convention and what the effect on the viewer is at those moments.
--Woody Allen is a fan of silent film (particularly slapstick) notice when the film becomes quiet, when physical comedy is presented to us as reality, and scenes that include silly physical jokes or chase scenes. These are all homage to the yesteryear of film.

HOMEWORK: None.Posted byBradley Craddockat5:18 PMNo comments: Thursday, May 28, 2015 Comedy Techniques and Love or physical humor (often pratfalls, slapstick, hurting people, etc.) What doesn't kill us makes us laugh.Superiority vs. inferiority(we laugh at those weaker or in a worse situation than us)Mistaken identity(using aspects of feeling superior or inferior, when the true identity of a character is revealed, this also includes surprise--so we laugh)Absurdity(if it doesn't make sense, and we are logical people, we laugh)Surprise: humans may laugh when startled to release adrenaline. It's part of our monkey brain.Hyperbole: an exaggerationUnderstatement: Often used at the end of a paragraph or idea, an understatement reverses the importance of the subject matter.How can writers use these techniques in their writing? Like everything else, choice allows us to skillfully craft our work for a desired effect.

As you watch the film today, please find an example of each type of comedy in the film.

HOMEWORK: Complete your reading of Without Feathers.Posted byBradley Craddockat8:27 AM1 comment: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Poetry Projects The Trojan Womenis referring to a Greek Tragedy (see: God) about the women of Troy banding together to protest the Trojan War.Match Wits with Inspector Ford: In the 70s books such as5-Minute Mysterieswere very popular. The idea was that the author gave you a very short mystery or crime. The answer to the riddle was in the back of the book. A fan of whodunits will enjoy this parody.The Irish Genius: This is a parody (similar to Lovborg) but dealing with the poet William Butler Yeats. Yeats was an Irish culture fanatic and wrote Irish lyrics celebrating Gaelic and Irish legends. His poems drip with allusion and Allen plays around with this idea by providing fake footnotes.God, a Play: Poking fun at Greek Theatre, Allen is also joking about writers and the process of writing a play and the challenges of performing it. Allen was a playwright before he became a film writer. So you can assume the Writer character is partly autobiographical. Of course, the character of Woody is also Allens alter-ego in the play. Enjoy the absurdist ideas of the piece. By the way, the machine reference in the play is a reference to: Deus Ex Machina (or God from the machine) referring to a contrived ending of a play (a God comes down and fixes the characters problems).Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts: Bestiaries were an old fashion (Medieval) form of the nature guide. They were all the rage in the 1500s.But Soft, Real Soft: There is a scholarly debate over who really wrote Shakespeares plays. Many critics say that Marlowe (another Elizabethan playwright) wrote Shakespeares work. Others say Queen Elizabeth or Francis Bacon wrote the plays. Probably, odd as it may seem, Shakespeare wrote Shakespeares plays. The title refers to a line fromRomeo and Juliet.If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists: The Impressionist painter Van Gogh kept close correspondence with his brother Theo. Later a song and a movie were made from Van Goghs private letters. The title tells the rest of the joke.No Kaddish for Weinstein: Kaddish is a Hebrew prayer of mourning usually recited at a persons grave. Woody Allen often jokes about Freudian Psychoanalysis or therapy. He is using a comic technique of the non-sequitur (or surprising a reader by saying something unrelated to its subject or something that makes no sense or is nonsensical.)Fine Times: An Oral Memoir: Another parody of a book review and autobiography of a fictional character. This one is about Flo Guinness, a speakeasy owner in the 1920s. Alcohol was prohibited (illegal) in the early 1920s and later repealed. Guinness is the name of a popular beer. Allen references many famous 1920s musicians and people.Slang Origins: The English language has so many weird expressions and sayings. Allen pokes fun at them in this essay.HOMEWORK: Complete your film projects if you didn't complete these in the lab. Complete Without Feathers.Posted byBradley Craddockat6:52 AM9 comments: Older PostsHomeSubscribe to:Posts (Atom)About this course!This course stresses understanding the characteristics techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.
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