Today's class consisted of multiple topics. To start off with we had an interesting conversation about the "good bad" podcast movie/TV rating system. We discussed how multiple people can have different view about the same film or TV show, which lead into conversation about Rick and Morty. I believe the show would be considered good good on the rating scale but Mr. Rivers' believed it would fall more upon the good bad portion because of its grotesque comedy. Just proving the idea that some forms of film and other can always be interpreted differently. It was all a good segue into A.O. Scott's quote about film adaptations. The class had a few minutes to discuss if they agreed or disagreed with Scott's claims. Afterwards as a class we made points showing what makes a good movie adaptation versus a bad one. Good ones consisted of having their own adaptations, taking intentions but not blindly following the book, and having material to use. While bad film adaptions usually copy exactly off the book, don't do anything new, and have no real reason to have anyone watch and read the book. Afterwards the class talked about the summer reading and what we will have to with it.
We have new project assigned to the class due on the 26th of October. It is marked as #6: Intertextuality Essay (Summer Reading) on google classroom. We were given two samples to look over and review where they succeeded around their topic sentences, thesis sentence, and other integral parts of a good essay. We soon posted our overview and textual evidence on to the classroom as a private classroom. For me the class was very simple and more of just preparation of things to come. Overall the class maintained a good group conversation throughout the entire period, in which it enabled us to maintain the information and obtain notes.
These are excellent details about our classroom discussion here, Tony. Any student who was absent would learn a lot about our class activities and future expectations (re: that Intertextuality Essay). Consider how you can create some space for the second half of this assignment: extending our learning beyond the classroom space. Maybe you could have mentioned a specific literary adaptation or examined your particular summer reading adaptation? You probably could have even kept building on Rick and Morty to extend your analysis into the real world.
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