December
8
ELA 20: Dec 8
Ms. Waldner’s review of The Emperor’s Club
- Students responded really well at the end of the movie yesterday. There were many comments that it was a “very good movie/ kind of sad.” Today, students began brainstorming and writing the rough draft of their movie review that is to focus on the ‘anticipation’ theme in the movie.
- We worked in the projector room and constructed the beginning of a movie review together to give students an idea of how to begin their review assignment. Click on the link above to see the review I created to get them started. (They cannot ‘copy’ that review. They must make their assignment their own. )
- Here are some quotes from the movie to consider using in your movie review…
William Hundert: Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever.” Older Deepak Mehta: A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams, and they will continue to be a kindling force and a revealing power in our lives. William Hundert: The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success. William Hundert: However much we stumble, it is a teacher’s burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy’s character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man. William Hundert: Sir, it’s my job to mold your son’s character, and I think if… Senator Bell: Mold him? Jesus God in Heaven, son. You’re not gonna mold my boy. Your job is to teach my son. You teach him his times tables. Teach him why the world is round. Teach him who killed who and when and where. That is your job. You, sir, will not mold by son. I will mold him. Martin Blythe: [from the plate above Mr. Hundert’s classroom] I am Shutruk Nahunte, King of Anshand and Sussa, Sovereign of the land of Elam. I destroyed Sippar, took the stele of Niran-Sin, and brought it back to Elam, where I erected it as an offering to my god. Shutruk Nahunte – 1158 B.C. [Sedgewick cheated at the Mr. Julius Caesar competition] William Hundert: Why, Sedgewick? You knew the material. Sedgewick Bell: Why not? |
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