Video- Poetry: Hunting Snake by Judith Wright

 A few weeks ago, we started seeing Poetry in Literature. Our teacher selected some poems from our books, and 'Hunting Snake' by Judith Wright was the one we got. 

 In this poem, the poet describes an experience she had with some friends, when they were walking down the autumn sky, and they saw a big black snake. Judith Wright uses contradictions to describe the animal, most time putting two negative adjectives and a positive one, giving us the idea that eventhough they were scared of it, the snake was beautiful and powerful. 

 The first part of the task was to make an oral presentation, explaning the poem. And then, the second part was to make a video of us reading the poem, while showing pictures related to it. THIS is the link, I hope you enjoy it. 

Ocultas por la historia

 Todos sabemos que el pasado 8 de Marzo fue el Día Internacional de la Mujer, ese día en el que todas nos decimos feliz día y reparten shampoos y perfumes por la calle. También es un día en el que apoyamos a las mujeres con cáncer uterino o de mama, usando una cinta rosa. Pero también, recordamos a grandes mujeres que dando primeros pasos llegaron a la cima, y así cambiaron nuestra historia y estilos de vida. 

 Este año, la profesora de NTICx nos hablo sobre los programadores. Un programador es aquel que crea y escribe programas de computadoras, implementando agorítimos mediante un lenguaje de programación. La primera programadora fue Ada Lovelace, una matemática inglesa que vivió desde el 1815 hasta el 1852. Pero ella no fue la única que logró un gran cambio. 

 La ENIAC, fue la primera computadora. Creada en 1945 por John Presper Eckert y John William Mauchly en la Universidad de Pensilvania, fue programada por seis mujeres, quienes pasaban largas jornadas trbajando en la máquina realizando cálculos. Éstas hábiles matemáticas y lógicas fueron Betty Holberton, Jean Jennings, Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum y Frances Bilas Spence. A continuación en el siguiente video, les rendimos homenaje a las seis mujeres que se encuentran ocultas de la historia, solo por ser mujeres. 

Performing: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

 In Literature we had been reading The Tempest, a play by the British famous  actor, poet and playwright, William Shakespeare. The play is written in Elizabethan English, so for us, who learn modern English, it was quite hard to understand it. However, our teacher helped us, asking we to perform the scenes. 

 Firstly she choose some students and they performed the play as usual, but then we were asked to create still images or tableau, which is like putting stop in the middle of a film. So here is the activity.

Act 1, Scene 1:

  In this image we can see the ship which carried the loyalty, in the middle of a tempest. The Boatswain is ordering the King of Naples and other important members of the loyalty, to stay in their cabins. This is something that is criticized along the play, how 'normal people' react against the loyalty.

This is our second still image and it shows how members of the nobility( people sitting in the chairs) are getting desperate and the crew is trying to save the ship. 

Our third tableau. It represents the moment when everything is getting lost, the nobility and the crew is praying while some women of the nobility  throw themselves to the sea. 

Act 1, Scene 2

Another scene. The Tempest has finished and here we can see from the island, Prospero calming down Miranda, who is worried for the people who were on board and perhaps dead. Prospero tells her no harm has been done. 

 These are the still images from Prospero's memory while telling his daughter, Miranda their past, when his treacherous brother, Antonio, take power of his thrown, the Duke of Milan. 

  
   

  This still image shows Antonio(Prospero's brother) and Alonso, the King of Naples, signing a pact, showing in this way that they are together, a king of allies. 

   Now we can see how Antonio is expelling Prospero and his daughter from the city.  






  

 This freeze frame is representing Prospero and Miranda in the little poor boat. We can see that Prospero has a book, his book of magic and Miranda is eating some food. These both things were put in the boat by his loyal servant, Gonzalo. 




















     These were the still images, but also we were asked to perform the story of Sycorax, the witch mother of Caliban, Prospero's savage servant. Here is the link to the video we performed in groups: 

 http://nocritiquesalaruta.blogspot.com/2012/05/sycoraxs-story.html?spref=bl