Week 20: (Almost) The End of Commedia

Monday-Mr. Fearnehough talked to us about our annotated bibliographies and gave them back to us. He gave us a lot of tips on how to make them better and get more points for the RI. He showed us the mark scheme for the bibliography.

• It is similar to a review of each  source
• Be ridiculously specific and spell everything out. (Remember no word limit)
• explain why a name of a place/person is better than/more credible than another similar place/person
• Give credentials of the people you have cited
• Convince and prove the credulence of the source
• State the limitations of the source:
• Time period
• Purpose
• Language
• Ask questions about the source
• Do not use open ended sentences

I got an okay score on my bibliography, but it was not amazing. I am going to have to work a lot harder on the real one. Another thing that I noticed is how difficult it can be to find sources for some of these things.

Wednesday- Mr. Fearnehough was not in class today, so we worked on the end of the play. We played hide and seek as our warm-up. It was not as good a warm-up as we thought it would  be because it did not focus us or calm us down. We were a little distractible the rest of the lesson, but we still got a lot done on the end of the play. In fact, we finished devising and talked our way through the entire thing.
Thursday- We performed the piece for Mr. Fearnehough. It was our first full run-through. It was kind of rough but was awesome to finally bring it all together. It also helped me see a few things that we need to work on.

• scene changes
• what we are going to do during them and  
• they are going to be organized.
• getting the right props at the right time
• there are a few more props that we need as well as some more costumes
• we need to get the music worked in

  

  This picture is me and Halley
   working on our Il Capitano mask.

  
• we need rehearse some more so that we are more comfortable and used to our roles.



This picture is of me
getting into character.

Mr. Fearnehough told us that we will work on the piece a little more after the break, but it is mostly finished. Here are a few pictures from what we have done.