-Open to your hw. on pages 19 and 20 of your vocab workbook.‘

 -Then, copy the following quote from Our Town into your bell work section, and answer in complete sentences the questions that follow: 

No curtain.No scenery.The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light.Presently the STAGE MANAGER, hat on and pipe in mouth,

enters and begins placing a table and three chairs downstage left, and a table and three chairs downstage right. (3) 

1) What do you think will be the stage manager’s role in the play Our Town?

2) What minimalist qualities do you see in this quotation?3) How might these minimalist qualities affect an audience

watching a live performance of the play on a stage?

9/11/2015

-Open your vocab book to the hw. (pp. 19-20)

(#s 1, 2, 4, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20)

To those who were absent yesterday or who did not complete the homework, work on these in the hallway now.

Pds. 2, 3, 7, & 8

-Open your vocab book to the hw. (pp. 19-20)

(#s 1, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 18)

To those who were absent yesterday or who did not complete the homework, work on these in the hallway now.

Pd. 4

Restatement Clue

Contrast Clue

Inference Clue

Pd. 45 out 20 sentences

Pd. 2 10 out of 20 sentences

Pds. 3, 7, & 820 out of 20 sentences

Don’t get lazy on me. This info. is important to both of us!

Include the following:

Both parts of speech, if more than 1(not just the p.o.s. of the definition I had you highlight)

A definition that makes sense to you (might need more than 1 word)

1 synonym and 1 antonym, if the vocab book includes at least 1 (Draw an X in the boxes allotted for these missing syn/ant.)

Concerning the Vocab Sentences (far right column):

-10 sentences

Context clues (restatement or contrast)

1 context clue within each sentence

labeled (R or C) and underlined (not entire sentence)

vocab word within your sentence (not a synonym for the vocab word)

Concerning the Vocab Sentences (far right column):

Restatement Clue Example

Incorrect: Me and my brother have an altercation once in a while, or an angry argument.

Correct: My brother and I have an altercation, or an angry argument, once in a while.

Contrast Clue Example

Incorrect: The royal family lives in a home, and so does a pauper.

Correct:

The royal family lives in a castle, but the pauper lives in a village. OR The royal family, who lives in a castle, has a lot of money, unlike the pauper, who lives in a village.

WORST KIND OF VOCAB SENTENCE: The woman was irate. The man pilfered.

RVocab Word

Vocab Word

C

In your agenda books, write the following homework:Due Wednesday, 9/16: (Unit 1 Quiz next Thurs.)Vocab Chart for Unit 1 (all 20 words)Period 4: context clue sentences for 5 words (your choice)Period 2: context clue sentences for 10 words (your choice)Periods 3, 7, & 8: context clue sentences for all 20 words

If you are able to, buy Our Town, preferably the 1998 Perennial Classics edition!(We’ll begin this Tue or Wed.)

What is Minimalism?

• “Less is More”• Minimalistic works are

uncomplicated and simplistic. • They use only a few elements in

order to depict the essence of an idea or concept.

• Sometimes minimalism is used just to save money.

• Other times it is an artistic choice.

What is the difference in these two book covers?

Which book would you buy, and why?

VS.

Minimalism in Theatre

• In a minimalist play, there is usually a very small cast and few, if any, scenery or props.

• The dialogue and story are very plain and down to earth. They depict every day occurrences as opposed to epic conflicts.

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town

Haiku

• Haiku is a form of Japanese poem that is held to a very strict, simplistic formula:

• We’re out of skim milk (5 syllables)• Don’t drive too fast to Costco’s (7 syllables)• Get me Diet Coke (5 syllables)

Writing

• Writers often use brevity as a form of discipline to help improve their writing.

• There is a particular emphasis on shorter sentences and the sparse use adjectives and adverbs.

• Ernest Hemingway is probably most notable minimalist writer

• This, and much more, she accepted - for after all living did mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case – mere possibilities of improvement. She thought of the endless waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed, or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer and helplessly have to watch the shadow of his simian stoop leave mangled flowers in its wake, as the monstrous darkness approaches.

• “And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.'

'What did you say?'

'I said we could have everything.'

'We can have everything.'

'No, we can't.'

'We can have the whole world.'

'No, we can't.'

'We can go everywhere.'

'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.'

'It's ours.'

'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.” -Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants

VS

-Vladimir NabokovSigns & Symbols

Non-MinimalisticMinimalistic

MinimalismEXAMPLES

Minimalist Fashion

Minimalist Staircase

Minimalist Bedroom

Minimalist Kitchen

Minimalist Livingroom

Minimalist House

Describe the difference between these two album covers.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________

This was the cover of The Beatles’ 8th album:

This was the cover of their 9th album: