Sumários

Television: The Young Pope (S1E1)

28 Fevereiro 2024, 17:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP2 watched The Young Pope (S1E1).  Anyone who missed today's class is free to look for this episode online and watch it.  Warning: it is marvellously surreal and becomes increasingly so as the series goes on (especially season two entitled The New Pope).


Next class: we will be reading two reviews for this show, one positive and negative, from The Guardian and Vanity Fair respectively.

11th Lesson

27 Fevereiro 2024, 08:00 • Kathryn Gray Craven

I. A Ways of Thinking A. In groups, we read this spoof of a movie script, paying attention to the vocabulary of thinking and wanting.
B. Ways of Thinking B. In groups, we tried to remember which expressions the faux script had used.
C. Read the script for the whole class.

II. A. Lydia ^Blakely . Discussing Visual Art. + / -s.  1. 2. The Pony Races 3. Is this Internet Art?

Dance: Alvin Ailey Dance Company – ‘Lazarus’ and ‘Revelations

26 Fevereiro 2024, 17:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today TP2 watched 'Revelations' on YouTube and we went on to read The New York Times's review of Alvin Ailey Dance Company's show Lazarus & Revelations.


Next class: We will be watching episode 1 of season 1 of The Young Pope.  (People this is art...on TV.)

10 Lesson - Practicing Talking about Visual Art

22 Fevereiro 2024, 08:00 • Kathryn Gray Craven

A. Showed Still Life with Cat by Pasquarosa. 
B. Discussed in groups the painting. Use of color, perspective, interpretation of folk art motifs, reaction to colors, the importance of color in naive art,
C: Read a review of a retrospective of Pasquarosa's work. How was it organized? What sexy expressions did the critic, Laura Cumming, use? 

How to Write a Review - Part 2

21 Fevereiro 2024, 17:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, we read the final product, identifying the persuasive writing techniques and learning about how to create literary fluency  between paragraphs and ideas.  My review (Berlinde de Bruyckere’s Crossing a bridge on fire has no heat) can be found in the shared Google drive in the file named 'Review'.


Optional homework: anyone who wishes to hand in 1-3 review(s) should do so by March 11th.  All reviews handed in by the 11th of March will certainly be marked and returned.  Any review handed in after that day may or may not be marked before the test.

Next class: we will be watching 'Revelations' (and hopefully 'Lazarus') performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company and, time allowing, we will be reading a review.