As Rayna requested :)
As Rayna requested :)
Please make sure you sign up for at least ONE role for the next three plays (click link). Some roles can double up. We'll see if we go further. The final exam will be based on this text, and we will be distributing it later in the week.
MASTERS OF THE TRADE: roles
"Reiner Holzemer’s 2008 documentary film, William Eggleston: Photographer, includes a black-and-white family snapshot. It shows a very young Eggleston in the foreground, looking natty in cap and sailor suit, a tricycle behind him. Might it be a sidewalk-worthy equivalent of Charles Foster Kane’s Rosebud? Surely, not even Eggleston can say. In such indeterminacy begins the mystery and wonder of art, three-wheeled and otherwise." — Mark Feeney, Smithsonian.com
William Eggleston, Untitled (Memphis), 1970
“I do have a personal discipline of only taking one picture of one thing. Not two. I would take more than one and get so confused later. I was trying to figure out which was the best frame. I said, this is ridiculous—I’m just going to take one.”
“...So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.” – William Eggelston
Why isn't there more outrage in the USA over income inequality? Here are some answers generated by the class:
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This NPR report seems to be about dating and romantic relationships, but listen to the end when the researcher reveals secrets about the language we use and the power it connotes. Read Gatsby, pp. 69-72 and count how many times each character uses the word "I" inside of quotes of dialogue.
Full transcript below. We watched the clip. "How to Marry the Rich".
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Social Class Stations from Spiro Bolos on Vimeo.
A recording of the Metra Union Pacific-West line, detailing all of the stations from Wheaton to Oak Park.
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And here is a link to the "mini" Junior Theme from The Marshall Project, which deals with a subject we studied earlier, mass incarceration:
CONTEMPORARY ISSUE: In his State of the Union address...President Obama celebrated the fact 'that for the first time in 40 years, the crime rate and the incarceration rate have come down together.'"
WHY QUESTION: Why does the USA incarcerate such a high percentage of its population, despite falling crime rates?
ANSWERS:
TONIGHT: at Evanston Township High School, Monday, March 23, 7PM
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Recall that approximately 400,000 enslaved persons traveled from Africa to what would become the United States. The United States was the only slave society in which that population increased naturally (to 4,000,000). How did the "manufacture" of sugar play a role in this forced migration?
Think about the connections between this Cold War event and the "paginas en blanco" mentioned in Oscar Wao.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/confirm-nor-deny/
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How does the construction of Illinois state finances affect the ability to deliver a "high quality" public education?
Reading Guide and more:
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