A Streetcar Named Desire - Scene 1

Blanche, hoping to remake her life, looks for Stella’s help; but what she found wasn’t what she was expected, because Stella’s new way of life wasn’t similar to the one she had before. "Blanche: I'm looking for my sister, Stella DuBois. I mean - Mrs. Stanley Kowalski" pg 15. But not only Stella´s life have changed; Stanley was now part of it. This new character had the unique objective of discovering Blanche`s secrets and avoiding her happiness, they are completely incompatible.

Blanche wasn’t very happy because Stella left the house and went to a poor family. However, even though Blanche was mad because of Stella`s decision, she was sorry of what she said to Stella before she left. "Blanche: ... I thought you would never come back to this horrible place" pg 19.

Stanley and Blanche’s way of being is totally different; it is evident when they spoke. Stanley is serious, humble and he doesn’t pay attention to Blanche. Blanche is vain; she always needs attention, mostly from men. So this may be a reason of what Stanley feel disgusted about Blanche’s personality. "Staley: ... How long you have for, Blanche? / Blanche: I-don't know yet. / Stanley: You going to shack up here?" pg. 31

Luis José Espejo Serna
Diego Tavera Concha
Juan Diego Lahidalga
Juan Francisco Luna Lasso

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Joanna & Jose

I study at Cooper Union…
(Cooper Union: The Great Hall of The Cooper Union has stood for more than a century as a bastion of free speech and a witness to the flow of American History and ideas… in Cooper's famous auditorium that the politics and legislation necessary to build a humane city took shape.)
But I left.
-Jose

It's nice how he try to talk in Spanish. Its funny cuz sometimes we sound like that… talking english.
Jose looks like Luis, you know, all disoriented and stuff, but, he has a lot of talent. Luis got it too, but he doesn’t want us to know.
Jose, congrats, your pieces are very interesting and authentic. I love the skateboard, I can’t imagine someone who has that tenacity.
http://www.myspace.com/sipestar/photos/22177319#%7B%22ImageId%22%3A33541031%7D

Joanna shows us her site. It contains lots of interesting pictures. If you want you can see it here:
http://www.joannanovelli.com/
There’s a lot of interesting stuff.

Teacher Evaluation and Final Gatsby Charts

My favorite students,

How are you? It's been a while since we've been able to have real class. And next week you'll be in Leadership Workshops on Monday and Tuesday. That means we won't have class until next Thursday, December 2.
There are two assignments due on Thursday, December 2, 12:00am:

1. Final Gatsby Charts for Chapters 7-9. There will be a small quiz on information related to the charts. If you do the charts, you can use them for the quiz. If not, vaya con dios!

2. Please post the answers to your English A2 - Teacher Evaluation.  Your responses are very important for the progress and improvement of the class.  The 3 questions were:

• What did I learn in Term 1?
• How was my teacher's performance in Term 1?
• What do my teacher and I need to do to achieve high grades in next year's English A2 - DP Exams?

Be well and get to work.  Remember that blog participation is important for your final grades.
Luis 

As All You

Follow the next link and you'll find a song made for yourselves..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ndJUCoFJc

More Homework

A2 Students...I'll be checking your classification charts for The Great Gatsby, chapters 4-6, on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Please do these individually. I will notice if you copy. Be well.
Luis

Literary Terms

Students...the following links will take you to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and to the Orange Unified School District of California's respective thoughts and definitions of literary terms. Please refer to these two sources while working on The Great Gatsby...and beyond!
Luis

From El Dorado...

Students,

I hope you guys are doing well, enjoying and learning on your Social Studies field trip. Please take advantage of these moments. They might seem boring, but trust me, after you're enrolled in college(in the near future...for MOST of you)high school life will become a simple, affective memory. I write to you from the airport, waiting for my flight to Ft. Lauderdale. I'm happy...
...to inform you that your Written Tasks (WT) will be due on Tuesday, October 19, 2010. We will engage in a peer review grading session with your classmates on that day. For more information on the WT's, pleas check your notes and pg's. 18-20 of your A2 bible. The bibles were sent to your cyberskoolz accounts.
Your Interactive Orals (IO) will be due on Thursday, October 21, 2010. For more information on the requirements and options of the IO, look at your bibles, pg's. 39-40. If you decide to do group work, no problem, just make sure your groups contain a maximum of 3 people. You may videotape your IO's and show them to the class. I will be videotaping the ones that are not handed in as videos.

Please be serious with your work. These will potentially be the samples of your work sent to the I.B. for external assessment. Both must be on the Cultural Option: "Media and Culture: Advertising, Bias and Media Manipulation".

Lastly, please wish me luck, write me a message on the blog. I will be available during recess week to answer questions. You can email me: lramirez@tvs.edu.co. Or you can just leave me a message on the blog. You know what? Please leave me a message on the blog...pray for me...I am flying AIRES!!!!

Luis