Thanks Kate, I'm pleased that it will be of benefit. Please share the experiences of your students. Sonnet 29 is certainly one of the most complicated. First...
Bill
Bill491@...
Jan 2, 2006 5:42 pm
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Now THAT'S what I need to meet my goals for 2006: a year with 22 months! And to you, too! Kate ... From: TheatreDiscussionLst@yahoogroups.com ...
Thanks, Bill! Your website is loaded with wonderful information! I haven't read it all, yet, but I can already tell it is just what I'm looking for to use as...
Yeah, and along those same lines, I deliberately make mistakes in my emails sometimes just so others can enjoy correcting me. I ain't got a witness, and I...
Diagramming sentences was lectured about in 7th grade, but I can't say I was "taught". It wasn't clear, it didn't make sense, and it made a horrible chore out...
It is so horrible when teachers feel the need to demoralize their students! I know most are not like that, but it only takes one to inflict permanent damage on...
I guess I was lucky. Some mates saw our teachers as demoralizing; I determined early on that they had bone dry senses of humor. But yes, a bad teacher can...
But I have to disagree with you about demoralizing versus dry sense of humor. Calling effeminate students "faggot" is NOT funny. Although I discourage high...
No. One of my teachers was, though. And as I just replied privately, many a bad acting teacher, or cruel teacher, has stopped many an actor from going further....
Kate, Well now you have the Lecompton (Kansas) School District case as a precedent. Student won either a $400 or $40 thousand dollar judgment against the...
... You are absolutely correct, Lelia, it was a chore. And it was a horrible way to teach students about grammar and syntax. I recall looking at the...
Bill
Bill491@...
Jan 3, 2006 10:36 pm
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... Kate, I'll send you, as an attachment, a Wordperfect version of the Sonnets handout. If your word processor can't translate it, I'll email something else....
Bill
Bill491@...
Jan 3, 2006 10:45 pm
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Dear folks --- Could we nudge the subject back to some vague relevance to theater? I'm beginning to sense tremors of unrest from those who perceive this to be...
In a message dated 1/3/2006 6:14:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bill491@... writes: ...I'm miming playing a sad violin on your behalf, even as I write....
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! It's just that nature hates a vacuum. Aristotle said that. And Aristotle's work The Poetics became the basis of ...
... Dear fine Bob, and master of this domain, I was responding to Lelia, and her intriguing post, when I read your challenge. And a while later, Lelia wrote...
Bill
Bill491@...
Jan 4, 2006 1:49 am
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Hi Bill, Happy New Year to all. ... I don't think anything has. Grammar & syntax are simply not taught in a meaningful way at all, nowadays -- if my own...
Dear Kate, Bill, et al ---- Any discussion is better than none, and discussion on this list is better than most - regardless of the topic. Carry on, dear...
Silent reading is a "new" practice, and social disapproval of people who "move their lips" while they read is less than 300 years old . For thousands of years,...
Geralyn Horton
g.l.horton@...
Jan 4, 2006 4:55 pm
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REading aloud is one way, and a good one, for a writer to know if their text says what they mean for it to say. And have you tried to read dialect silently? I...
Atta boy, Bob! Don't let a few cantankerous misanthropes push you around. If someone doesn't like the way you manage your stage, tell 'em to go build their own...
Silent reading began much longer ago than 300 words. From Wikipedia (not an unimpeachable source, but a good starting point): St. Ambrose (c 340-4 April 397)...
Frankel, David
frankel@...
Jan 4, 2006 5:51 pm
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Although diagramming sentences might be a good way to understand syntax, it's the understanding,not the method, that's most important - as everyone seems to...
Frankel, David
frankel@...
Jan 4, 2006 5:57 pm
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At the end ofan exchange between Bob Deemers and Kate, the following address was listed to access the archives. ... I tried the link several times but without...
dgeisen@...
Jan 4, 2006 6:31 pm
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I didn't say silent reading STARTED 300 years ago-- I said that until recently it was the exception rather than the norm. The citation you give is one of...
Geralyn Horton
g.l.horton@...
Jan 4, 2006 6:43 pm
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For the archives, try -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheatreDiscussionLst/?yguid=74533210 - and let me know how you make out. The archives are so seldom...
... Well said, Lelia. Everything I write at my computer, fiction or non-fiction, plays or screenplays gets read aloud. Even handouts for the actors at my...
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