Friday, October 4

My favorite movie director.

Wednesday, October 2

For Week 3


  1. re-do paper if you want a better grade
  2. AP  --  two-way
  3. MP -- keep it consistent.  don't think.
  4. buss letter
  5. cartoon
               name
               a great title
               the sequence
               at least 5 sentences:   one paragraph of 5 sentences  or 3 paragraphs:
                   a 1 sentence paragraph
                   then 3 sentence paragraph
                   then a 1 sentence paragraph

here is a wise young man

Wednesday, September 25

Welcome Writers Autumn 2013

WHAT, HOW, WHY, FROM WHERE     

Monday, September 23

Partners Movies: Types

Shawshank Redemption
Jules and Jim
Lone Ranger and  Tonto
Wally Shawn and Andre Gregory
Batman and Robin
Ragin Bull
Sherlock and Watson
Thelma and Louise
Bonnie and Clyde
Fight Club
The Kids are Alright
Brokeback Mountain
V for Vendetta
Pulp Fiction

Set up
Development - denoument
detail detail detail 

Wednesday, July 31

Wednesday, July 24

Due for July 30

1.  re-do Poetics paper
2.  list 3 favorite "buddies" or "couples" movies
3.  Set up "Act I" of American Beauty
4.  continue (start) Morning Pages
5.  continue Accountability Partners

Tuesday, July 9

300 WORDS - on a critical reading of .

Aristotle Poetics  (2ndary source)...  Capture what Aristotle says about these components of drama:
  • action
  • structure:  beginning middle end - later, the 5 parts
  • episodic moments
  • revolution
  • discovery
  • conditions turning into their opposite
  • the hierarchy of development of tragic plot:  what's best, second  best, and worst 
What do YOU "get" from reading this piece?
  1. What is the outstanding bit that inspires or frightens YOU?
  2. Does he have "sources"?  What?  From where does he "get" this?
  3. What seems to be his purpose or motive in this instruction on writing?
350 400 words  (1.5 - 2 pages)  300 WORDS - Due July 17
This is to be a minimum of three paragraphs.  Why?
This is to have a compelling title, i.e., not "Aristotle Poetics"



Tuesday, June 4

Becket: bare bones

The story:
A man who believes in nothing, a man who has "a void" inside, a man who has been given all kinds of unexpected rewards finds something to believe in. Another man who has everything has nothing.  Their fates knit together - can you describe "the sweater" their yarns create?
This is a story of politics and the soul.  Can you imagine a story so profound be told of those who rule our world today?

Tuesday, May 28

Monday, May 20

films about values and thinking

  • Star Wars
  • The Godfather (I)
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Natural Born Killers
  • 2001 - thinking is mechanical, imposed by something outside, not innate
  • Lion King
  • Bambi
  • Becket
  • American Psycho
  • Kill Bill
  • Masculine Feminine

Action is action; action comes from ideas
Ideas and thinking come from values


Tuesday, May 7

Characters (forces) in Wall Street

1. Father
2. Son: Bud Fox
3. Son's boss
4. Son's co-workers
5. Son's college buddy: (Spader)
6. Hal Holbrick (God figure)
7. "the girl"
8. Gekko
9. Sir Larry
10. The union folks
11. The U.S. Attorney's Office

you want to pick two and state their objectives How did their objectives get whirled around by the two plot points?