1. March Week

2. Viewing the Film: Monday-Wednesday

3. Please Locate Your Film Pre-Research Sheet
Quiz on the film, The Fault in Our Stars, will be on Thursday:
Due for bonus on Thursday
Regular Points- due on Friday

4. Please Locate Your Film Note Sheet
Be looking for ….
Character motivations
Foreshadowing events
Camera shots
Theme of film
(2) different genres for this film
[ Due Thurs. for Bonus/ Friday for regular points ]

5. Starting the Film- Title?
This phrase has been interpreted to mean that fate is not what drives men to their decisions and actions, but rather the human condition.
Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, lines
As you watch the film, consider how Hazel & Augustus’s cancer impacts their actions regarding life and their views on their own mortality. Is it fate, or is it their actions that determine their life’s path?

6. Tomorrow’s Quiz on The Fault in Our Stars
1. If we are here, we will be typing it in the computer lab: 2nd hour: Main Lab 3rd hour: Library Lab Don’t forget: the pre-research and film notes are also due with the quiz by Friday.

7. If we have a snow day:
The quiz, film notes and pre- research are then “homework” for Thursday and due end of the day on Friday, March 25. ***There will NOT be a lab day on Friday!

8. Wednesday, March 23 Post-Film Essay Prep Read over the essay question
Plan out an outline for your answer
Come up with a THESIS statement as the last sentence of your introduction:
Augustus’s quote “….” connects to the theme of ____
in the film The Fault in Our Stars in the following ways:
___, ____, and ____.
Identify three examples to support the quote’s connection to theme for your body paragraph and list them in your thesis in the order you plan to discuss them
What is the “so what?” you can discuss in your conclusion? Why is this film important to view – what do people learn or take away from it?

9. Thursday, March 24
Take the post-film analysis quiz on The Fault in Our Stars
* Finish it today before you leave? +3 bonus points
*Due tomorrow at the start of class.
a. Film notes
b. Film research
c. Film quiz
Print out the note sheet for Star Trek – we will use it starting in class tomorrow [Friday, March 18]
Print out and begin the research notes for the film
Star Trek

10. Essay Exam: Handwritten or Typed Due today by 3:05

11. Avatar

12. Film Schedule for Final Work—Qrt 3
Today- Wed., March 30
ESSAY TEST: Thursday in class
Watch the film Avatar
Film note sheets and background research –
coming Monday [I had
them copied]
Essay exam document will be uploaded to my JMHS site Wednesday, March 30 after school