Today in class we started off with looking at the words in the daily objective to point out where the verbs are. This consisted of three steps; evaluate, develop, and synthesize. After identifying the verbs, we defined and discussed them. The class then defined connotation and denotation as the perception v. the definition.
In addition to defining connotation and denotation, we defined tone as the speaker’s attitude. The class looked at some tone words on a shared document and defined them as well as placing them as positive or negative tone. Also, we looked at the lines “This is my old lady; This is my grandma; This is my granny,” to see if they have a positive or negative tone (negative on the left, positive on the right). This was followed by looking at two different scenes, one from “No Country for Old Men” and one from “The Office.” Although their tones are totally different, they both contain suspense. In “No Country for Old Men”, the tone of the coin toss scene is suspenseful and anxious due to Anton Chigurh contemplating killing the store clerk because the clerk was casually integrating Chigurh about his day. However, in “The Office” the tone is comedic suspense or absurd suspense due to the Michael Scott’s seven year film beginning with the coin toss scene (best out of seven). Also, the actual office laughing at the line, “there’s going to be a clean up in aisle 5” added to the comedic value of the show.
The past week we had discussed topics as well. The class noticed the many types of topics in “No Country for Old Men” such as money, safety, and justice. Although in the movie, there wasn’t necessarily justice or safety for the good guys, it was a major topic. The pursuit of money was the most significant topic as well as prominent in the entirety of the movie.
This concludes what we had done and previously done.
Lots of effective details about our class discussion today, and your paragraphs show a really natural flow from one idea to the next. Especially if I was absent on Friday, this would be a really helpful resource for me.
ReplyDeleteWhat this blog post is missing is that Part 2: How can you extend the learning beyond this classroom? How can you take one of our class topics (tone, connotation, theme, etc.) and connect it to something that you've read/watched so we can see that our learning has a place beyond our classroom itself.