Thanksgiving Break Participation/ Writing Contest Voting #3

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For Class participation during break-

Read a review from music, film, television, food, video games, books, etc.  Find a zinger and share it with me in the form below.  Does it have snark, sharp diction, humor, or complex syntax?  Send it along in the form below.  This must be from a professional reviewer.

Here are some of my favorite reviewers of film:
A.O. Scott       Manohla Dargis       

Roger Ebert- Suntimes          AV Club

Tribune Critics are pay-walled- meh but you can access them through Proquest- ha HA!


from a review by Manohla Dargis-The Man With the Iron Fists

This is a movie as drenched in genre love as it is in the arterial spray from its hordes of sliced and diced characters.

from A.O Scott's review of Lincoln-

The smaller, plainer America of the mid-19th century is evoked by the brownish chiaroscuro of Janusz Kaminski’s cinematography, by the mud, brick and wood of Rick Carter’s production design and by enough important facial hair to make the young beard farmers of 21st-century Brooklyn weep tears of envy.

 Music- Rolling Stone               Paste               Pitchfork             AV Club

Return of Cool Reads Week of 11/18/2013

• Smart talk about the McRib
• How to write about poverty
• 7 books on music, emotions, and the brain.
• Coulrophobia
• Watch your tweets...Colleges may be watching!

Clever analogy from Mitchell & Webb

Cool Reads Week of November 3-2013

• Real Zombies...in Haiti 
• For Laura and Analicia IRP- Witches!
• Priming - compliment to those reading Blink
• If you are not nice to me...I'll send this to your parents 
• Powerful essay of a battle with cancer 
• Cool facts on my favorite animal---Octopus of course!

Students bought me this for Teacher Appreciation Day 2009- Great Kids

Halloween- Hitchcock's Bang! You're Dead.

 From Dish's Mass Concentration

But ultimately, Hitchcock was the runaway “favorite”: a full 65 percent of the study’s cerebral cortices lit up the same way in response to the clip from “Bang! You’re Dead.”

           Hasson’s conclusion was fascinating:

[T]he more “controlling” the director—the more structured the film—the more attentive the audience. “In real life, you’re watching in the park, a concert on Sunday morning,” Hasson tells me. “But in a movie, a director is controlling where you are looking. Hitchcock is the master of this. He will control everything: what you think, what you expect, where you are looking, what you are feeling. And you can see this in the brain. For the director who is controlling nothing, the level of variability is very clear because each person is looking at something different. For Hitchcock, the opposite is true: viewers tend to be all tuned in together.”

Period 1 Voting 

Touch of Evil- Halloween Writing

This week's writing contest- direct from your nightmares...

Watch all of them. and what were the icons of inspiration. 
Watch all of them. and what were the icons of inspiration. 

IRP Google Sites Portfolio- GO GO GO GO!

• Clever haunted house commentary on fear as the great equalizer. 
• Lonely among 8 million others? 
• What Google searches reveal about global sexism. 
• Post- Modern journalism experiment in form...cool story of crumbling Russian infrastructure 
• On my list to read...Meg P's IRP book choice 

Ideas for your revision to Edge Response- Peer Edit

 So.True.
What Love Looks Like, videos 1-6 from Tangible Graphics on Vimeo.

Nabokov Reading