What is English II to do?

Rabbit Rabbit! Just wanted to leave a quick reminder to my English II students about what the assignments were for today:

1. Watch 'em: Take a few minutes to watch your classmates' videos from the Point of View projects. They're posted here, to my blog, and they're completely awesome! If you like what they've done, go let them know by leaving a comment for them!
   
   
2. Rate 'em: Remember, I need everyone to take that Group rating quiz, for each member of your POV groups (including yourself). Make sure you get this done by Friday so I can give you points for it by the midterm. Remember: be honest!
   
   
3. Test 'em: Lastly, go to Tiki-Toki.com, sign up for an account, and start playing around with this program. Even if it's just for 15 minutes, you'll become more comfortable with adding events in. Just create a timeline and add a few dates in your life to it, and practice using the Categories feature, too. Remember, we're going to be using this for the rest of the semester as your Final project, so the better you know it now, the easier it will be later!
   
   
   

That's all!

Reap what you've sown: Rate your POV movie partners

As we continue to read The Diary of Anne Frank, we need to get some other book-keeping stuff done, and one of those things has to do with your  POV movie projects. If you remember, I told you, at the beginning of that project, the four things I'd need from you at the end:

• POVs in a Fable chart 
• 4 scripts, one for each perspective 
• 4 movies, edited, 2-3 minutes long each 
• Group rating quiz, at the end of the project, where you will rate how your fellow group-members contributed to this project 

Now, pretty much everyone has turned in the 4 movies, and I have a few groups 4 scripts—if I don't have those, I need them. I also need the POVs in a Fable chart, which is the back side of the sheet I gave you.

The big, final thing I need is that Group rating quiz, where you are to honestly evaluate how each of your classmates contributed. It is very important that you're absolutely honest—none of the other group members will know what you rate them as. I'll be the only one who knows their scores, so don't feel like if you give them a bad score, it'll get back to them.

To take that quiz, either scan in the QR at the top or click here. You'll need to select the group member and do the entire quiz for each group member, so expect to take this (short) quiz 4 or 5 times! By the way, please rate yourself!

What was what in that Owl Creek video?

As per my Spring-ly custom, English II students _{(and some American Literature students)} fell victim were treated to a reading and a viewing of Ambrose Bierce's famous short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a story about the musings of a man about to be hanged. One of the most famous things about this story is the way that Ambrose Bierce subtly switches between literary points of view in his treatment, tricking the readers into thinking fantasy is reality.

The assignment, if you remember, was to watch the video (embedded below, in case you need it again) and determine where (if anywhere) the following POVs were show:

• First person
• Third person (Limited)
• Third person (Omniscient)
• Objective (or Dramatic, as Mr. Kabel calls it)

This was supposed to be 3¶s, one for each that I saw in the film. (You might find a fourth one, but I didn't, so if you did and you can justify it, I might throw you some extra points.)