Hello everyone,
Today started with Mr. Rivers introducing us to the Back to the Future script which can be utilized in our essay's tomorrow if you choose to use quotes. While quotes are not required for the movie, they can certainly be utilized in helping establish setting and place in your essay when discussing the three act structure. Following this, we read two paragraphs from a review on Independence Day: Resurgence, analyzing the tone the author took and how word choice affected the article. After analyzing this and discussing with our groups, we then had the rest of class to discuss the three act structure in both RPO and Back to the Future. Tomorrow in class we will be typing our essay, using no outside sources, other than the movie script if needed. Pre-writing is advised as it can help you gather your thoughts and information, in order to help you finish in the forty two minutes of time given to you in class.
An outside source similar to what we did in class today, as well as what we will be doing tomorrow can be compared to many movies in modern day. The three act structure is very common in modern films, and is often done unintentionally. Personally, I never realized how common the three act structure was until I learned about it in class. Now that I know of it, I am able to put pieces and segments of the movies I've watched into these categories under the three act structure. While this may sound like a bad thing, it really isn't and movies are still able to keep me on the edge of my seat despite following this simple structure. That's all for today, hopefully this post eases you back into class for tomorrow. Good luck on your essays!
Well structured account of the day’s learning with the activities in one paragraph and the extension in the other. Would be very helpful for students who missed class. Extension is a great START and really connects the learning back to you personally, but consider how you could have gotten more specific. For example, what’s a movie or show that you feel differently about or that you noticed the three-act structure?
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