Class Blog 3\14\18

In class today our goals were to be able to apply genre as objective rather than subjective categorization of narrative, and be able to analyze how structural patterns develop genre conventions. We practiced this by analyzing the difference between tragedy and comedy within the Emoji Movie trailer.

Some other notes I gathered were:

¨What makes a text the type of text?¨ Its objective qualities are more important than subjective qualities when defining a text as a certain type of text.

We also learned the difference between Chaos and Cosmos:
Chaos- start of the play, unorderly, complication, confusion 
WITHIN THE EMOJI MOVIE- wrong face, wrong girlfriend name at firewall, relationship with his parents
Cosmos- ending the play, sense of unity or harmony, order, love acceptance 
WITHIN THE EMOJI MOVIE- he was accepted into society, his parents were proud, got the girl

(Make sure you are prepared to begin recording in class on FRIDAY for your first podcast, and make sure you listened to another groups podcast, and comment with first name, last initial, and period # under their slide page on google classroom. Don't forget to work on your Be Reel blog post, you only need ONE this marking period, alongside your THREE podcasts. Also, remember to pin up your Objective Quality / Subjective Enjoyment cards in class for the movies you chose for your Be Reel blog posts.)

The lesson plan for today helps prepare for our podcasts, making sure not to focus mainly on talking about our subjective opinions on the film, but also objective things we can talk about, and to also challenge the idea of genre that a film is classified as. Like the Emoji Movie, most people would think it's a children's movie or a comedy, and not a tragedy.