Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Nov. 16th, 2010 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyMy students had a mixed reaction to Kamber’s essay. They liked it as a story but where confused by the way he went from personal story to personal story. We really had to go over the essay paragraph by paragraph to see why Kamber was giving examples of all these people. I’m really worried for these kids next semester when they have to take a writing class with more complicated reading assignments. I will have to try to do more about the readings then. Maybe more close readings.
I was very tired by the time I got to the second class and after I got home my brain shut down too. And I just wanted chocolate all evening. Luckily, I rediscovered that Bear’s Mom gave me Nutella on Halloween to take home with me. Yay, chocolate.
Shakespeare Tempest Act 2. Antonio and Sebastian are like the grumpy old guys in the Muppets who sit on the side and mock everything. It is amusing. But Sebastian was rather harsh with his brother. Alonso thinks he lost his son; it is not the best time to point out that the whole going on the ship was Alonso’s own idea. Antonio is really the one with all the planning. Sebastian needs to be prodded into a conspiracy, although it does not take much. There is some Antonio and Sebastian vibes here. Ariel put others to sleep in the first place – did Prospero counted on that if Antonio and Sebastian were left alone they would naturally plan to kill Alfonso and Gonzalo? The second act is a comedy of Caliban meeting Trinculo and Stefano – Stefano is pretty drunk and Caliban is just happy with the possibility of having some other master and maybe even see other people. There is a lot of snarkiness in Act 2 and a lot of humor.
I was very tired by the time I got to the second class and after I got home my brain shut down too. And I just wanted chocolate all evening. Luckily, I rediscovered that Bear’s Mom gave me Nutella on Halloween to take home with me. Yay, chocolate.
Shakespeare Tempest Act 2. Antonio and Sebastian are like the grumpy old guys in the Muppets who sit on the side and mock everything. It is amusing. But Sebastian was rather harsh with his brother. Alonso thinks he lost his son; it is not the best time to point out that the whole going on the ship was Alonso’s own idea. Antonio is really the one with all the planning. Sebastian needs to be prodded into a conspiracy, although it does not take much. There is some Antonio and Sebastian vibes here. Ariel put others to sleep in the first place – did Prospero counted on that if Antonio and Sebastian were left alone they would naturally plan to kill Alfonso and Gonzalo? The second act is a comedy of Caliban meeting Trinculo and Stefano – Stefano is pretty drunk and Caliban is just happy with the possibility of having some other master and maybe even see other people. There is a lot of snarkiness in Act 2 and a lot of humor.