A Midsummer Night's Dream - Our collective work

Here's Shakespeare's most hilarious play, which we worked into three panels: Evening - Night - Morning:

We started here: the documentation post in this blog (click on the image to open):

These are our works (Click on the double-diagonal-arrows to watch the presentations in Full Screen mode):

The law of Athens Hermia is forced by the law in Athens but finds solutions in the wood Mateo Orge, David Vilaboa
The wood Love and strange couples in the wood Alberto Núñez, David Rodríguez
The love potion The love potion causes many changes in the play María Lago - Ana Misa
Magic What does magic represent? - Magic in the story Carla Alonso, Ibtissam Moukhass
Magic Magic and magical characters Luis Prada, Sergio Prieto
Dreams Dreams, Magic and Psychoanalysis Iván Álvarez, María Rodríguez
Dreams Magic, Fairies and Symbolism Tatiana Cabaleiro, Manuel Rodríguez
The supernatural world The love potion: Oberon, Titania and The Puck Anxo Táboas, Lois Lago
Law and Order vs Instinct and Chaos We need both: Law and Order, and Instinct and Chaos Gabriel Lago, Miguel Mouriño
Apollonian and Dyonisian An analysis of AMND using Nietzsche’s concepts Sheyla González, Alba Covelo, Carla Luis
Apollonian and Dionysian An analysis of AMND using Nietzsche’s concepts Iván Blanco
Light and darkness Light and darkness: the interdependence of reason and passion Luciano Fernández, Andrés Piñeiro
Gender issues Shakespeare’s women are no scared wives or daughters Alba Campos, Jesús Fernández
Roses Shakespeare compares virgin women to flowers Gabriela Carvalho, Saínza Fernández
Loving couples Titania, Oberon and the four lovers’ problems Tatiana Muíños, Paula Amil
Wrong couples Matching Jacks and Jills Noa Domínguez, Carla Bras
Fairies Names explained and drawings Irene Aguilar, Ana Carballido
Craftsmen Names explained and drawings Laura Rodríguez, Rosa Salvador
The play within the play Is AMND a comedy or a tragedy? Both - it’s a play within a play! Patricia González, Lorena Álvarez

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Documentation

Welcome to our English Project in 2015-16.

This year we are going to work on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

To start up, we'll have a look at some internet sites on this play, and go through some philosophical problems related to it:



Now we'll qet acquainted with the characters, the most important situations and the symbols of this play:

And now we'll watch a video summary in one of the best websites on AMND, Sparknotes:

Check this page from time to time. In a month's time we'll be uploading a new post with the culminating task we made: the big poster, the presentations, the essays...

See you then!!!

Hamlet - Our work

     

This is the work we did on Hamlet. Remember that we have already used some documentation (click on the images):

1. The characters

Our analysis of Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude, The Ghost, Polonius and Horatio.

2. Topics and Symbols

Read all about Death, The Ghost, Misogyny, Poison, Yorick's skull, Ears and hearing, Oedipus-Complex and Incest in Hamlet.

3. Scenes

Watch our drawings of the scenes into which we divided the play for our study: The Ghost, To be or not to be, The mousetrap play, Death of Polonius, Ophelia drowned, The graveyard and The fencing match.

4. Quotes

The most famous quotations from this Shakespearian masterpiece: To be or not to be, Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy and many others...

5. Making of

Images of how we did the work: from the blank piece of paper and the collective writing of some essays, through research and painting, to the hanging of the murals and cleaning up.

Hamlet - Documentation

Our collaborative project for 2013-14 is William Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which we'll work with the Department of English. It includes an analysis of characters, topics and symbols.
But, to kick off, we need some information: The first day, we’ll visit the website SparkNotes, where we’ll watch an animation video summary of the play and learn about the main characters and topics and then we'll go through some details, helped by a multimedia summary. The second day we’ll watch some scenes from Kenneth Branagh’s version of the play.
The project consists on making a big size collage of scenes, characters and quotes from the play, pasted on a drawing of Elsinor Castle and a mural gathering the essays, drawings and summaries that we make to prepare the collage. We include a PDF guide intended to help teachers when preparing a similar study.

1. The filmic version

William Shakespeare's HAMLET. 1996 film by Kenneth Branagh. Click here to look it up on the IMDB

2. SparkNotes

Click on the PDF to enlarge it and learn to use SparkNotes

3. Summary

A Power Point summary of Kenneth Branagh's film

4. Materials for teachers

These are the organisers we used. They are a summary of SparkNotes' contents and include a guide to a 41:58 minute summary of the film

Elizabethan England

In 1st of Bacharelato we are going to finish the first term studying the Elizabethan golden age: History, Literature and Philosophy.

For a start, let us read some information about TOLERATION in literature: The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, and New Atlantis, by Sir Francis Bacon: