Hello Everyone,
Today in English we opened with our usual "Wish your group a good good mourning" and picked up with our analysis of allusions. We started by analyzing the song "Sunday Clothes" that was popular throughout the film Wall-e. Within the song we looked for the following functions; Define the audience, Reward the audience, and specifying characterization. We then moved on to finding examples and expanding upon of rewarding the audience, defining the audience and specifying characterization in Ready Player One. We then wrapped up the class with diving deeper into identifying dominant and subsidiary audiences in Ready Player One.
Outside of the classroom I chose to relate one of my favorite super hero movies to the lesson; Deadpool. Deadpool itself is an Easter egg gold mine filed with explicit humor, hilariously questionable morals and pulse pounding action. One way Deadpool relates to today's lesson is by defining the audience there is literary one scene where Deadpool breaks the fourth wall and directly address the audience. Another example used throughout the film is the use of Easter eggs as a reward to the audience. One scene in particular shows Deadpool from the astronomically awful X-men Origins Wolverine movie following the quote "Lets go back to where it all went wrong". Also another scene during the ending where Deadpool copies the ending scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW AN EXTENSION SHOULD LOOK! Great job using specific details from our class to show how Deadpool uses allusions. You include the key information from our learning about allusions, and then you go to include even more specific connections to the world at large. Keep up that good work! Consider how you could have elaborated on the first half a BIT more (just to include some of those specific examples that you found from the novel). Overall-- great work! Love the title and tone too.
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