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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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15yearsinQ8
Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 462 Location: kuwait
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Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Shake's plays - made me think of Renaissance Man with Danny Devito
another movie about teachering to thickskulls
has great quotes
Bill Rago: Hamlet's mother, she's a queen.
Soldiers: Hamlet's mother, she's a queen.
Bill Rago: Buys it in the final scene.
Soldiers: Buys it in the final scene.
Bill Rago: Drinks a glass of funky wine.
Soldiers: Drinks a glass of funky wine.
Bill Rago: Now she's Satan's valentine.
Soldiers: Now she's Satan's valentine.
[another recruit is trying to bang a rhythm on his desk]
Private Miranda Myers: Give him time, give him time. He's a white boy.
[Talking about Shakespeare to the class]
Bill Rago: He wrote plays. Plays...? You know, like TV without the box. |
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passionateteacher
Joined: 23 Dec 2009 Posts: 30
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:39 am Post subject: COMICAL!! |
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I have asked for suggestions and this dicussion has become SO comical!
Thanks for the suggestions guys, but I cannot use music, I have used visuals, powerpoint presentations offering explanation in plain English. I just wanted to see if there were more hands on method approaches to teaching the material. It is ususually consisiting of poetry that they cannot relate to because it was written at least two centuries ago!
Girls are not a problem, they generally like to read and have more patience to sit through the lesson. It is the boys that I have concerns with.
Believe it or not they seem to get the lesson. It is just the process that is frustrating!
More later. |
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15yearsinQ8
Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 462 Location: kuwait
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: |
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the point everyone is trying to make is you can't just push the envelope - you have to break out of the box here
to 'chalk and talk' or powerpoint your way through this is just asking for their attention to switch off and start fighting you
the girls may seem patient - but believe me, they're bored to tears
you can reach the objectives through other methods |
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Kipling
Joined: 13 Mar 2009 Posts: 371 Location: ...Ah Mrs K peel me a grape!!!....and have one yourself!!!!
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:13 am Post subject: Literature breeds distress............................... |
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Ian McKellan's Richard the Third is superb and Antony Hopkins' Titus Andronicus is gruesome but well acted.
If you have no choice but to teach Shakespeare in its' original form then it is very difficult.( even in the UK)
For poetry try Hillaire Belloc or John Betjeman as they are amusing and use rhymes or get them to translate their own national poems into English. My Turkish students used to love doing that but it's difficult and doesn't always come off.
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Starfell
Joined: 24 Mar 2010 Posts: 138
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a fun one for poetry/song lyrics in any country:
1. Get the lyrics of a song and divide the class into groups.
2. Give each group a verse and get them to translate it into Arabic.
3. Take back the original English verses.
4. Redistribute the new Arabic translations among the groups.
5. Get them to translate it back into English
6. Then put the original English lyrics on the board (OHP) and compare the translations.
It's fun and you don't need to speak Arabic. |
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Starfell
Joined: 24 Mar 2010 Posts: 138
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:16 am Post subject: |
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We were doing some First world War poetry last week and I managed to get hold of a tape with the poetry being narrated- that was a bit different.Kind of a ltstening comprehension at first. |
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