1. Remember: the next extra credit essay is a description / review of one of the Latin bands presenting at Festival International (the schedule is in the link)! Double extra credit if you can actually interview a band member! Tape it if you would like (it’s a great idea) but remember: you’re doing this to practice Spanish more than you are to practice video editing!
2. Homework (a) is to do the paragraph based on the poem “Instantes” in BKN. It is right here. Remember, this is based on the poem and the mechanical exercises we did on it April 24. Use the same or similar constructions to write the paragraph.
3. Homework (b) is to reread El delantal blanco and imagine yourself as the director. Think of TWO different ways in which it could be staged. For example: with the Empleada acting very submissive, or on the other hand, very sarcastic (using the same words, of course, but a lot depends on tone). Concentrate on the section of the play assigned to your group (see below) and through Moodle, e-mail your ideas to your group members *and to me* by noon on Monday if not before. This way everyone will come to class ready to start working with their group and *rehearsing.*
4. Groups and precise plans for group work were slightly changed due to conversation in and then after class, and in office hours, today.
PRESENTATIONS: Groups of 3 people will each put on their section of the play in TWO WAYS, with people changing roles. That way there is always someone who is a director/prompter/understudy. And we gain a more subtle interpretation of the play by seeing how different it can be, depending on how it is staged.
We will practice in class TUESDAY and put the play on THURSDAY. You do not have to memorize lines but you must have practiced … you must speak the lines easily, from note cards or from the script, but not with your eyes glued to it.
Revised Group 1: Kristen Killeen, Rebekah (this is the only 2 person group). Pages 1 and 2, including the first 2 lines on p. 3.
Revised Group 2: Travis, Kristin Meadows, Chris Boudreaux. Pages 3 and 4, including the first 2 lines on p. 3.
Revised Group 3: Ona, Alaina, Stacy. Pages 5 and 6.
Revised Group 4: Destinée, Derick, Aimée. Pages 7 and 8, including the lines on p. 9 through the Señora’s “porque sí.”
Revised Group 5: Ingrid, Tara, Vanessa. Pages 9 and 10. Start on 9 with the the Señora’s “Eso no es juego. Es la realidad,” and end on 10 just before the bathers come in.
Revised Group 6: Ricardo, Blake, Samuel, Heather, Raneesha, Hope. From where the bathers come in to the end.
5. The next TUESDAY is our QUIZ on El delantal blanco and the grammar we’ve worked on since the last quiz!
6. Thursday, the last week of class, we plan our last composition which we will present orally, in conversation, for the final!
