We took part in a wide range of activities in our weekly class. Through having us take part in activities encouraged by books such as Shakespeare Set Free (editor Peggy O'Brien) and Christopher Shamburg's English Language Arts: Units for Grades 9-12, Professor LoMonico showed us their merits in a practical, concrete manner. Among the activities in which we took part are the ones listed below:
- Collaborating with classmates to devise a five-minute opening sequence to the movie based off of the passage "Cora Unashamed". The successful completion of this endeavor required us to closely study the text in order to imagine an ideal combination of sound, images, camera angles, and dialogue.
- Perusing the language of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in its original form and comparing it to the modernized spelling. We discovered that the text is not nearly as unintelligible as one might expect before closely delving into the text and language.
- Comparing the version of the Romeo and Juliet's prologue with modern spelling while retaining the beauty of the Elizabethan language to the Shakespeare Set Free version. We discovered that while the latter does seemingly lend understanding of the mose surface aspects of the play, much of the play's meaning is lost in transation.
- We created a sound recording of a passage, using various objects to create sound effects such as shoveling coal, pipes clanging, and engines turning. We used the computer program Audacity to alter the sounds, making them sound more authentic. This activity requires studying a text to discover what sounds will bring the writer's world to life and produce them.
TO BE CONTINUED
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