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Bell Shakespeare News- up and coming
This message just arrived in my inbox. I am sure our Shakespeareans will be interested. Pericles looks especially good (click thrice to see text): This play is another instance of Renaissance “artists” being passionately interested in stories from ancient Greece and Rome. But the play was also inspired by Shakespeare’s interest in legends that had…
First Year Drama Performances!!!!! Loads of Energy…
Here are some collages of fabulous first years in action, working with contemporary play texts by Woody Allen “Death Knocks”, Eugene O’Neill, “The Hairy Ape”, Joyce Carol Oates “Tone Clusters”, Susan Glaspell “Trifles” and Milcha Sanchez-Scott “The Cuban Swimmer”. This is the end of the semester’s work using Schwiebert’s “Reading and Writing from Literature”. Drama…
The Fruits of our Shakespearean Labours
Such a fabulous set of performances of Shakespeare by Year 3 09. Congratulations to all – you managed so beautifully to implement the examples and advice given by our Bell Shakespeare coach, Matt. So good to have Shakespeare mediated into our bodies by someone with such experience. Enjoy the feast of impressions (and remember- click…
Bell Shakespeare Works With Third Year Students
What a fabulous experience we had this week with Matt Edgerton, actor with the Bell Shakespeare Company working with my third year Shakespeare students. For the past 10 weeks I have been preaching the gospel of William Shakespeare, telling about his amazing ideas on life, his fabulous creative power, his extraordinary harnessing of the intellectual…
Shakespeare 09 Best LiveJournal URLs- Showcase….
What an amazing collection of LiveJournals from third years for the first half of this semester. I feel really honoured that you are all using this space so passionately and with a real sense of how it is expanding your creative possibilities. I honestly think that some of the best learning is going on in…
A Fabulous Crop of Literature and Life LiveJournals:
Have just trawled through another batch of LJs and have been blown away by the amazing way in which, overall, you are using LJ as a space to enhance your appreciation of literature, to evoke creative responses in yourself to your reading and to build the LJ community through your thoughtful interactions. Thank you all…
Professor Sam Bernstein’s visit from Boston
Prof Bernstein came this week to stay with us and to give my students a fabulous, powerful lecture on Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”, a play that has been called a thought provoking “condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of industrialization” (http://www.enotes.com/hairy-ape). It is a play that managed to attract the attention of the FBI, for…
Professor Sam Bernstein's visit from Boston
Prof Bernstein came this week to stay with us and to give my students a fabulous, powerful lecture on Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”, a play that has been called a thought provoking “condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of industrialization” (http://www.enotes.com/hairy-ape). It is a play that managed to attract the attention of the FBI, for…
Professor Sam Bernstein's visit from Boston
Prof Bernstein came this week to stay with us and to give my students a fabulous, powerful lecture on Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape”, a play that has been called a thought provoking “condemnation of the dehumanizing effects of industrialization” (http://www.enotes.com/hairy-ape). It is a play that managed to attract the attention of the FBI, for…
Dying to oneself- what does it mean???
This resonated loudly for me in the context of our thoughts on Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Illych” and “Master and Man”. How do we all understand this powerful idea? As Shakespeare once put it at the end of his most profound sonnet, sonnet 146- [he is here speaking about the way we recklessly expend…
Comments on Entries-
Sometimes I think it is worth drawing attention to some really interesting entries in the Literature community. So here goes http://czaronias.livejournal.com/3008.html?mode=reply I think you are asking a really important question here Cass… and you think about it with real empathy. It is this kind of thinking that can produce a great story that can in…
Week 9: A Great Week for Drama
Third year are starting to rehearse scenes from “The Tempest”, from “Henry IV Part1” and from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”; First years are starting to rehearse scenes from around 8 short contemporary plays; Second years are deep into Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” and shortly Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”. What a feast of drama happening…
Drama Resources On-line
All you drama buffs about to launch into Schwiebert’s drama offerings, there are some fabulous resources on drama in uTube. If you want to have a look at a brilliant performance of the closing minutes of Terence McNally’s Andre’s Mother (you should all look at this) check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGR9aIpATgg. If you want to see a…
ePortfolios
For your up and coming assignment on e-Portfolios, this is a vital link: http://electronicportfolios.org/google/index.html explore, enjoy, create! MG
Week 9: LiveJournal Writing Suggestions and Other Matters
LiveJournal is a public site – as you all know. This is part of the attraction of using it in an educational setting, because it allows us to connect with other organizations, other universities even. For example we have been exploring the possibilities of networking with students using Livejournal at the University of Hong Kong.…
Where Have I Been This Week?
I have been at an international conference in Surfer’s Paradise!- Great location- Great Conference. The conference was called “Creative Communities: Sustainable Solutions to Social Inclusion”. I had to present a paper with the title: “Using web-based technologies to empower creativity in literature classes for the homeless and disadvantaged”. Here is the title slide for my…
Emerson with first years this week!
Double click on text to read it clearly! MG
Former Student praises the value of LiveJournal after leaving uni
Any doubts about LiveJournal as a tool for when you leave University. Check out the comment by former student JZ. Go to my entry http://michaelgriffith.livejournal.com/80550.html and look through the comments on this blog. MG
Shakespeare 09 Excursion
Shakespeare 09 specialists went to the Shakespeare Room at the State Library today. This amazing room dedicated to the Bard on the 300th anniversary of his death pays tribute to his presence in Colonial Australia. The stained glass window in the room images the famous “All the World’s a Stage” speech, which is arguably the…
Second Year Art Gallery Visit
We all enjoyed our visit to the halls of the Nineteenth Century (Romanticism and Victorianism) at the NSW Art Gallery visit yesterday. The highlight was Ford Madox Brown’s monumental painting of Chaucer (Geoffrey Chaucer- father of English Literature) reading at the court of Edward III: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England. Madox Brown, one of the great pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,…
Generous Offer from LiveJournal Academic Assistant
As you know we have a list of academic assistants that head up the list of URLS which you will find in the Creativity Portal in the Blackboard site for your unit . These assistants are there to help us improve our LiveJournals in every respect. And remember that the first round of assessments of…
Sick with a heavy head and chest cold
Sick for three days A heavy head cold a streaming nose in bed feverish but strangely it is a blessing I have listened to the crickets and the rain I have watched the night sky steal its way behind the dusk behind the vast gum tree outside my bedroom window I have opened to the…
Travelling to Work by Train
Dawnlight freshens the world anew Cool, orange glow over Olympic Park The river glows Early morning skiffs …Oars …….suspended ……over the glaze ………………………Rest Taking in the morning’s Halo of blessings. MG
Inspiration from Thoreau
End of Week Two
The semester is already in full flight! In Shakespeare we are moving into A Midsummer Night’s Dream; in Nineteenth Century we are moving into Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wollstonecraft and Barbauld; in first year the feast is getting better by the hour! Some wonderful poems by Bukowski, Willams, Young, stories by Maupassant, Joyce, Naylor and others… challenging…
Knock-out performance! Don't Miss It. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shakespeareonthegreen.com.au
Grand-daughter Leeara and I arrived at 7pm half an hour before the start of the show in time to set up camp and our picnic dinner. It was a fabulous performance getting into a stride just as the sun was setting over the harbour in Balmain. Here “the mechanicals” (dresssed as Parks&Gardens workers) began their…
Knock-out performance! Don’t Miss It. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” shakespeareonthegreen.com.au
Grand-daughter Leeara and I arrived at 7pm half an hour before the start of the show in time to set up camp and our picnic dinner. It was a fabulous performance getting into a stride just as the sun was setting over the harbour in Balmain. Here “the mechanicals” (dresssed as Parks&Gardens workers) began their…
Knock-out performance! Don't Miss It. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" shakespeareonthegreen.com.au
Grand-daughter Leeara and I arrived at 7pm half an hour before the start of the show in time to set up camp and our picnic dinner. It was a fabulous performance getting into a stride just as the sun was setting over the harbour in Balmain. Here “the mechanicals” (dresssed as Parks&Gardens workers) began their…
Hi Shakespereans: Don’t Forget!!! Tonight!!!
Don’t Forget Tonight this opportunity to see the play we are studying in the next two weeks. The open-air performance is on tonight and tomorrow at 7.30… but get there at 6.30 if you want to be near the stage. Bring your sandwiches with you!. This is Shakespeare as it would have been performed in…
Hi Shakespereans: Don't Forget!!! Tonight!!!
Don’t Forget Tonight this opportunity to see the play we are studying in the next two weeks. The open-air performance is on tonight and tomorrow at 7.30… but get there at 6.30 if you want to be near the stage. Bring your sandwiches with you!. This is Shakespeare as it would have been performed in…
Hi Shakespereans: Don't Forget!!! Tonight!!!
Don’t Forget Tonight this opportunity to see the play we are studying in the next two weeks. The open-air performance is on tonight and tomorrow at 7.30… but get there at 6.30 if you want to be near the stage. Bring your sandwiches with you!. This is Shakespeare as it would have been performed in…
A quick word to first years
I know many of you have already posted your first entries into LiveJournal (most of you should have- because it is now the end of week 1- so don’t let yourself get a week behind!). You don’t have to post very much… to get started put in a very short post and a very short…
Great End to First Week Back!
Third years began their unit on Shakespeare this week with an introduction to Shakespeare’s first published poem, “Venus and Adonis” which is an Elizabethan version of the ancient mythic tale of Venus, the goddess of love, attempting to persuade the beautiful young man Adonis to make love to her. His refusal and then his untimely…
Ready, Set, Go! Autumn 2009 Literature at Uni
Welcome back everyone from your long summer break, or welcome to those of you who are new to our campus. I am looking forward to getting started again with all of you. We have a great semester ahead of us. We have a new literature staff member, who will be helping me with first years…
Christmas 2008
Hi all- now that marking is over (more or less) and Christmas has just about been and gone, I can begin my many catch-up tasks- one of which is attending to LJ. I hope that you have all had a wonderful few weeks in the lead up to this holiday period and that you continue…
Showcase: LiveJournals from the Clemente Introduction to Literature Program
Students in the C Program studying “Introduction to Literature” have been producing some fabulous creative and critical work and have been earning the respect of full time on-campus uni students who have been actively engaging with this group. C Students who were part of previous Introduction to Literature units and who are now undergraduate students…
Best Live Journals for first half of spring Semester
Be inspired… have a look at some of the best LiveJournals produced in the first half of spring term in first, second and third year at ACU. All the following LiveJournals received over 90% for their work: Year 1 Nicole Delmas http://ndelmas.livejournal.com/ Emma Dirks http://emmadircks.livejournal.com/ Nafsika Divis http://naffs.livejournal.com/ Jake Dowers http://jakedowers.livejournal.com/ Regina El-Hage http://rel-hage.livejournal.com/ Ian…
Commenting on the journals of others at ACU
I would like to strongly support one of our second year students who has written this direct and honest comment on why he thinks it is a really valuable exercise for us to be commenting on the journals of others doing literature at ACU…. and did you know that you do actually get marks for…
Clemente Mission Australia Introduction to Literature
Many of the students doing this short course are now up and running with their LiveJournals and are discovering – some tentatively- the joys of publishing their poems, stories and reflections to an immediate audience. We can all support each other here, giving the comments that help to nurture our creativity. These students are unique…
Cezanne/ Modernism Art Gallery visit ENGL202
A pity so few of you took advantage of this opportunity to see the Cezanne… but it will be there for a while to come. At $16,0000,000 it is destined to stay in the NSW ART Gallery for your great grand children to ogle at!. Described as one of the artist’s “most powerful creations” by…
Writing from way up north….
Hello all… one of our friends, student Alwyn Owens, doing Literature for Indigenous students has just written a fabulous free-form description of his experiences during last weekend. It would be great for him to receive supportive comments to keep his creative flow alive. Look at his entry at http://alwyno0.livejournal.com/. Alwyn is the chap in the…
Awaye
Awaye is a fabulous series of programs on aspects of Aboriginal life and spirituality. Themes here are very close to material we have been studying in literature. Just heard this program http://www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/default.htm- really worth a listen… and you can download it to your own computer or ipod…. The ABC is a great storehouse of imaginatively…
Study Break
Hope you are all catching up on some sleep, some work and some leisure! I have been doing some of all of these myself. I caught a dawn rainbow down in LyreBird Gulley just behind our place yesterday morning: I have actually seen many lyrebirds down here over the last few years. They are amazing…
Welcome to Clemente Mission Australia Students
Welcome to the ACU Literature LiveJournal Community. This is the place where you will be able to share your insights and experiences with around 200 on-campus students all studying literature. It is great to have you on board and as soon as your LiveJournal addresses are available they will be posted right here in this…
DRAMA AT ACU- WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ONE OF OUR OWN STUDENTS- DON’T MISS IT
ACU Drama presents: “The Silver Cord”- written and directed by Georgina Dickinson and “Grass Is Always Greener”- devised from Jeffery Archer and directed by Elly Clifton. Together for one night only, Friday 17/10/08 at 7:30pm, Murray Hall Strathfield. Also separate matinees on Wednesday 15/10/08 at 12pm (Silver Cord), and Friday 17/10/08 at 3pm (Grass is…
DRAMA AT ACU- WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ONE OF OUR OWN STUDENTS- DON'T MISS IT
ACU Drama presents: “The Silver Cord”- written and directed by Georgina Dickinson and “Grass Is Always Greener”- devised from Jeffery Archer and directed by Elly Clifton. Together for one night only, Friday 17/10/08 at 7:30pm, Murray Hall Strathfield. Also separate matinees on Wednesday 15/10/08 at 12pm (Silver Cord), and Friday 17/10/08 at 3pm (Grass is…
DRAMA AT ACU- WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ONE OF OUR OWN STUDENTS- DON'T MISS IT
ACU Drama presents: “The Silver Cord”- written and directed by Georgina Dickinson and “Grass Is Always Greener”- devised from Jeffery Archer and directed by Elly Clifton. Together for one night only, Friday 17/10/08 at 7:30pm, Murray Hall Strathfield. Also separate matinees on Wednesday 15/10/08 at 12pm (Silver Cord), and Friday 17/10/08 at 3pm (Grass is…
Michael Griffith: Home Page- Literature and Life Spring 2025 