Shakespeare’s Bootlegger, Dylan’s Biographer, Nabokov, and Me – When should an unauthorized version be authorized?
Shakespeare’s bootlegger, Dylan’s biographer, Nabokov, and me. – By Ron Rosenbaum – Slate Magazine
This article is long and does require a certain amount of knowledge of Bob Dylan, Shakespeare and Nabokov but, having said that, it is quite interested and if you have the time I’d recommend it.
This article caught my attention since we will be studing the Great Depression and the stockmarket crash in History when we return.
Tall tales about panicked speculators leaping to their deaths have become part of the popular lore about the Great Crash. But although jumping from bridges or buildings was the second-most-popular form of suicide in New York between 1921 and 1931, the “crash-related jumping epidemic” is just a myth.
Why aren’t we seeing any suicides on Wall Street? – By Nina Shen Rastogi – Slate Magazine
If you have any questions about any of the work you are doing over the holidays please leave a comment here and I’ll post a comment with my reply.
Next term we will be working on our film text, Good Will Hunting, as well as looking at the structure and reviewing of film.
So your homework over the holidays is to watch one movie that you have never seen before. Once we are back in Term 4 you will be writing a review and doing a presentation about this film.
Last week we were talking about different ways or writing and talking for different audiences. With this in mind I found this article interesting.
Katie Cincotta looks at how texting is changing our language.
I saw this and thought it was so important (to me) that I had to share.
My sister showed me this site and I love it. I hope you like it, or hate or react in some fashion to it.
Unfortunately I am too sick to be at school today. However each class has an assignment to work on.
In History: Cultural Life
In Geography: Volcano: Four Choices
In English: Performance: Your Own Macbeth
If you have any questions you can leave a comment here on the blog or else on the forum.
I know lots of people are home sick at the moment but we do need to move on with our work. Here is the 1920s assignment if you want to start work on it.
This assignment is due on Friday 10th October which is the first Friday in Term Four.
I was looking on the internet to see if early Chaplin films were in a slight fast motion and I didn’t find the answer. However I did find this very interesting article about his work.
Today I handed out the first major assignment for Geography. If you lose your copy you can always find the details here.
The world’s largest scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider, will be switched on in Switzerland on Wednesday. A few people are worried that the LHC may cause the world to be swallowed up by a black hole, especially when it starts to operate at full force in the spring. What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
What happens if you fall into a black hole? – By Noreen Malone – Slate Magazine
Don’t get sucked into a black hole. This is make you longer, then broken, and your day shorter and considerably worse.
If you missed the volcano notes today here they are.
How do volcanoes occur? – Red Space Rocket Wiki
and if you missed the earlier notes you can find them all on the wiki.
Today we really took a decent kind of bite out of the 1920s notes. If you missed them you can find them by following the link below.
