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UNIT 3:
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tHE Inter-Connectedness of the Human Experience — DATES: March 30, 2015—April 30, 2015 (18 Days)
— GENRE(S): Film / Modern Drama — CURRICULAR OBJECTIVES: Essay Set-Up, Critical Analytical Response to Literary Text — TEXTS: Moonlight Mile (2002), A Streetcar Named Desire |
MAJOR ASSESSMENTS (See Associated Chart)
1. MINOR #1: ESSAY SET-UP A (MICRO-ESSAY)
19. MOONLIGHT MILE GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
3. MAJOR #1: CARTLT A
11. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE EXAM
3. MINOR #2: ESSAY SET-UP B (CRITICAL LENS)
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DUE: March 25, 2014
DEADDATE: April 8, 2014 DUE: March 31, 2014
DEADDATE: April 7, 2014 DUE: April 14, 2014
DEADDATE: April 28, 2014 DUE: April 16, 2014
DEADDATE: April 30, 2014 DUE: May 2, 2014
DEADDATE: May 12, 2014 |
Moonlight Mile
Oscar winners Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, and Holly Hunter star with Jake Gyllenhaal in Moonlight Mile—an uplifting story of endearing honesty and humor. When Joe Nast (Gyllenhaal) experiences an unexpected loss, he wants to be the man he believes everyone wants him to be—the dutifully bereaved husband-to-be and the perfect would-be son-in-law to Ben (Hoffman) and Jojo (Sarandon). But then another woman unexpectedly enters his life, and he's torn between fulfilling his new roles and following his heart.
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LINK TO MOONLIGHT MILE ON IMDB.COM
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Minor #1: Essay Set-Up A (Micro-Essay)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two, A Streetcar Named Desire is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. After being exiled from her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi, Blanche explains her unexpected appearance on Stanley and Stella’s (Blanche’s sister) doorstep as nervous exhaustion. This, she claims, is the result of a series of financial calamities that have recently claimed the family plantation, Belle Reve.
Suspicious, Stanley points out that “under Louisiana’s Napoleonic code what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband.” Stanley, a sinewy and brutish man, is as territorial as a panther. He tells Blanche he doesn’t like to be swindled and demands to see the bill of sale. This encounter defines Stanley and Blanche’s relationship. They are opposing camps and Stella is caught in no-man’s-land. But Stanley and Stella are deeply in love. Blanche’s efforts to impose herself between them only enrages the animal inside Stanley. When Mitch—a card-playing buddy of Stanley’s—arrives on the scene, Blanche begins to see a way out of her predicament. Mitch, himself alone in the world, reveres Blanche as a beautiful and refined woman. Yet, as rumors of Blanche’s past in Auriol begin to catch up to her, her circumstances become unbearable. |
LINK TO A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE ON IMDB.COM
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Major #1: CARTLT A
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Minor #2: Essay Set-Up B (Critical Lens)
Write a collaborative, critical lens essay in which you discuss A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams from the particular perspective you have been provided with prior to today. In your essay, provide a valid interpretation using your perspective, agree or disagree with the lens as you have interpreted it, and support your opinion using specific references to appropriate literary elements.
Please complete using the shared Google Docs (drive.google.com) link.
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