05.01 - Star Wars Movie Script

At the beginning of class today, people got together with the partner with whom they made their creeper/keeper and child/adult Likert scale. We listened to the song "Tattoo" by The Who as a means of testing out everyone's child/adult Likert scaled (song below and discussion questions below with handout).

After everyone had a chance to score the speaker of the song on a 1 to 6 Likert scale from child (1) to adult (6), we shared out and discussed responses. General rankings were: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3

In general people felt the speaker was not very mature because:
- getting the tattoo was an impulsive decision
- the tattoo had little personal meaning or relevancy
- the speaker still lives at home
- the speaker does not have a job (he borrowed money from his mother for the tattoo)
- the speaker was adult enough to realize getting the tattoo was a rash decision, but not adult enough to stop himself from making a rash decision

We also determined that the labels of "child" and "adult" might be better replaced with "immature" and "mature" since someone could be of an adult age and so count as an adult, but still exhibit qualities more often associated with a child.

We will continue to use these Likert scales as we read Romeo and Juliet.

Next, we returned to our work in becoming familiar with Shakespeare's style of writing by looking at the story of Star Wars: A New Hope. We watched the first eight minutes of the film in class (this is the section we read yesterday) to get a better sense of what the action in this scene looks like. Then, we took a look at an adaptation of this movie script into a play script that was written in Shakespearean style (see handouts below). We read this together as a class.

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Tomorrow, we will look at comparing the movie script and Shakespearean play script in terms of their structure and use of language.

Handouts:
Tattoo lyrics and discussion questions
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily A New Hope

Homework:

We will have the unit 3 roots and prefixes quiz on Monday (be ready!)

Complete or revise any assignments scoring below a 3.

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