CURRICULUM PAGE

 

1. CLASS 1

 

As you work on remembering information about Pride and Prejudice, remember to reference your class notes.  If you are still having trouble remembering details, here is a useful website to help refresh your memory: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

 

Throughout your assignment, you’ll be asked to think about theme, setting, and characterization in novels.  If our class discussion and refresher course were just not enough, here are some definitions of theme, setting and characterization on the web for later reference.

 

2. CLASS 2

 

After viewing a “modernized” film version for today’s class period, I thought you might want to review some reviews of the movies.  This will help you to determine what worked and what didn’t work, so you can make your modern-day scene even better.  There are two reviews for each.

 

Great Expectations (and here is another)

Hamlet (and here is another)

Othello (they stylishly refer to the modern version as “O”- and I’m using it for another review)

Emma (this modern version was named Clueless – click for yet another review)

 

3. CLASS 3

 

What goes on in the mind of someone trying to “modernize” a classic?  Has your group hit a mental road block?  Sit back, relax, and read this article.  It may give you some ideas, and at the very least, it will offer a much needed mental break:

“400 Years Later, Play Goes Hip-Hop”.

 

 

4. ANY CLASS PERIOD SPENT

WHILE WORKING ON YOUR PROJECT

   

-         For those of you who chose to storyboard your scene, here is a site that describes the process of making a storyboard: “Acting with a Pencil”.  It talks in terms of drawing, but you can translate that to PowerPoint by either making actual drawings that you scan in or taking digital photographs. 

-         For those filming there scene, here is a site describing various shots you can use: “Camera Angles: Close-Ups and Long Shots”.