Last Week Review (end Sept 25)

This week was a bit of a light week (especially for me as a teacher).  We finished watching Battle in Seattle, which seeing it the second time seemed very "Hollywood-ized"; the dialogue seemed "staged" and unnatural, the events and how they were shot seemed likwise staged (how many shots were there of thoughtful, remorseful actors looking off screen for some sort of answer??).  But the overall message and who is say it (which point of view is being portrayed) is always obvious and clear. 

We also started the presentations- these have been good, at least good for me to get to know what your strengths and weaknesses are.  Audiences have been respectful and listening (for the most part).  As for the presenters- we need to work on "remembering the information"- because when you are comfortable with the information you can get away from looking at the paper.

The content of the presentations has been more informative rather than opinionated.

The way I use this mark is for me to get to know you and build on it for the next presentation.  I will of course give you these back and then you'll know how I saw you in presentation.

Coming up:  Finishing the presentations will happen early in the week.  After this we will be looking at protest poetry in the form of songs. We will take the work you did on these last presentations a bit further, so look forward to presenting again in about 2 weeks.
 
Your LES, final term exam, will start Wednesday Oct 28th (Day 9).

Homework: presentation preparation