Rivers reminded us that the Ready Player One theme post is due at 7 am tomorrow and that reviews are due tomorrow at midnight. He then dived into explaining that reviews are a process and how we can use that process to our benefit. He also explained how we should add flavors to our reviews. Rivers asked use to look at two important questions, “What part(s) of the object does this review EVALUATE?” and “What LANGUAGE develops the positive or negative tone(s)?” We then looked at a review about Get Out. Rivers then explained to many students that our review due at midnight tomorrow is only to be two, five sentence paragraphs, about Feast. The review we looked at next was a review about Adam Sandler in “Jack and Jill.”, evaluating using those previous questions. He then directed our attention to the classroom page to a transition resource, hoping for us to utilize this in our future writings. We then began working on the reviews on classroom and he reminded us that is it due tomorrow at 11:59 pm.
(Flavor count: 5, Mr. Rivers is getting dangerously close to Guy Fieri levels of flavor.)
What we learned in class today isn’t just relevant to the classroom. These skills can be used ultimately be used in a workplace as some people professionally review movies and other forms of media for a living. They do so in exactly the way we discussed in class today, rather than say “good” or “bad”, they convey their ideas with words that have strong tones behind them. It is important to review something with tone rather than be neutral to give the reader a sense of purpose behind the review.
Wow, Guy Fieri? That hurts!
ReplyDeleteLove the tone in this post. It’s a great balance of academic ideas (and specific quotes from our classroom) and casual tone (that befits a blog post)
Extension is in the right direction, but keep pushing it! How can you maximize the efficiency of this paragraph so we get deeper into the actual extension