-Open to your hw. on pages 19 and 20 of your vocab workbook.
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-Then, copy the following quote from Our Town into your bell work
section, and answer in complete sentences the questions that follow:
9/11/2015
No curtain.
No scenery.
The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light.
Presently the STAGE MANAGER, hat on and pipe in mouth,
enters and begins placing a table and three chairs downstage
left, and a table and three chairs downstage right. (3)
1) What do you think will be the stage manager’s role in
the play Our Town?
2) What minimalist qualities do you see in this quotation?
3) How might these minimalist qualities affect an audience
watching a live performance of the play on a stage?
Pds. 2, 3, 7, & 8
-Open your vocab book to the hw. (pp. 19-20)
(#s 1, 2, 4, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20)
To those who were absent yesterday or
who did not complete the homework,
work on these in the hallway now.
Pd. 4
-Open your vocab book to the hw. (pp. 19-20)
(#s 1, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 18)
To those who were absent yesterday or
who did not complete the homework,
work on these in the hallway now.
Don’t get lazy on me. This info. is important to both of us!
Pd. 4
5 out 20 sentences
Pd. 2
10 out of 20 sentences
Pds. 3, 7, & 8
20 out of 20 sentences
Restatement Clue
Contrast Clue
Inference Clue
Include the following:
Both parts of speech, if more than 1
(not just the p.o.s. of the definition I had you highlight)
A definition that makes sense to you (might need more than 1 word)
1 synonym and 1 antonym, if the vocab book includes at least 1
(Draw an X in the boxes allotted for these missing syn/ant.)
Concerning the Vocab Sentences (far right column):
-10 sentences
Context clues (restatement or contrast)
1 context clue within each sentence
labeled (R or C) and underlined (not entire sentence)
vocab word within your sentence (not a synonym for the vocab word)
Concerning the Vocab Sentences (far right column):
Restatement Clue Example
Incorrect: Me and my brother have an altercation once in a while, or an angry argument.
Vocab Word
R
Correct:
My brother and I have an altercation, or an angry argument, once in a while.
Contrast Clue Example
Incorrect: The royal family lives in a home, and so does a pauper.
Correct:
Vocab Word
The royal family lives in a castle, but the pauper lives in a village.
C
OR
The royal family, who lives in a castle, has a lot of money, unlike the pauper, who lives
in a village.
WORST KIND OF VOCAB SENTENCE:
The woman was irate.
The man pilfered.
In your agenda books, write the following homework:
Due Wednesday, 9/16: (Unit 1 Quiz next Thurs.)
Vocab Chart for Unit 1 (all 20 words)
Period 4:
context clue sentences for 5 words (your choice)
Period 2:
context clue sentences for 10 words (your choice)
Periods 3, 7, & 8:
context clue sentences for all 20 words
If you are able to, buy Our Town,
preferably the
1998 Perennial Classics edition!
(We’ll begin this Tue or Wed.)
What is Minimalism?
• “Less is More”
• Minimalistic works are
uncomplicated and simplistic.
• They use only a few elements in
order to depict the essence of an
idea or concept.
• Sometimes minimalism is used just to
save money.
• Other times it is an artistic choice.
What is the difference in these two
book covers?
Which book would you buy, and why?
VS.
Minimalism in
Theatre
• In a minimalist play,
there is usually a very
small cast and few, if
any, scenery or props.
• The dialogue and story
are very plain and
down to earth. They
depict every day
occurrences as
opposed to epic
conflicts.
Haiku
• Haiku is a form of
Japanese poem that
is held to a very
strict, simplistic
formula:
• We’re out of skim milk
(5 syllables)
• Don’t drive too fast to Costco’s
(7 syllables)
• Get me Diet Coke
(5 syllables)
Writing
• Writers often use
brevity as a form of
discipline to help
improve their
writing.
• There is a particular
emphasis on shorter
sentences and the
sparse use
• Ernest Hemingway is
adjectives and
probably most notable
adverbs.
minimalist writer
Minimalistic
Non-Minimalistic
•
This, and much more, she accepted - for
after all living did mean accepting the
loss of one joy after another, not even
joys in her case – mere possibilities of
improvement. She thought of the endless
waves of pain that for some reason or
other she and her husband had to endure;
of the invisible giants hurting her boy in
some unimaginable fashion; of the
incalculable amount of tenderness
contained in the world; of the fate of this
tenderness, which is either crushed, or
wasted, or transformed into madness; of
neglected children humming to
themselves in unswept corners; of
beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the
farmer and helplessly have to watch the
shadow of his simian stoop leave
mangled flowers in its wake, as the
monstrous darkness approaches.
-Vladimir Nabokov
Signs & Symbols
•
“And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we
could have everything and every day we make it
more impossible.'
'What did you say?'
'I said we could have everything.'
'We can have everything.'
'No, we can't.'
'We can have the whole world.'
V
S
'No, we can't.'
'We can go everywhere.'
'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.'
'It's ours.'
'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you
never get it back.”
-Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants
Minimalism
EXAMPLES
Minimalist Fashion
Minimalist Staircase
Minimalist Bedroom
Minimalist Kitchen
Minimalist Livingroom
Minimalist House
Describe the difference between these two album covers.
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This was the cover of
The Beatles’ 8th album:
This was the cover of
their 9th album: