G5 Introduction documentary

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 5

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

In the dark times

will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.

About the dark times

Bertolt Brecht, the German playwright and poet. 

Today

• Last class for the test!
• Reading Prophet Song

Quiz chapters 7, 8, 9

1. Who is Maeve?
2. What happens to Simon at the end of chapter 7?
3. Where is Bailey when Eilish returns home in chapter 8?
4. Why does Eilish take Bailey to the hospital?
5. Where does Eilish ultimately find Bailey when he's not at the hospital when she goes to check on him?
6. What does Eilish do to Molly after their meeting with the agent?
7. What does Eilish tell Molly before they get into the boats?

1. A woman Áine hired to give Eilish's family safe passage to Canada.
2. Áine helps him flee to Canada.
3. He went out for milk.
4. He has shrapnel in his skull
5. In the morgue of the military hospital.
6. Chops off her hair.
7. The sea is life.

Character Assignment 

Pick a role and imagine what your chosen character would say about the situation in Ireland in the book.

Pick one of the roles below

• Eilish
• GNSB officer
• Mark
• Simon

What should you discuss?

• What are your character’s beliefs and values?
  
• How do they respond to the oppressive regime?
  
• What internal and external conflicts do they face?

‘I was trying to see into the modern chaos. The unrest in Western democracies. The problem of Syria – the implosion of an entire nation, the scale of its refugee crisis and the West’s indifference. […] I was aware while writing this book that I was addressing, in part, a modern problem: why are we in the West so short on empathy for the refugees flooding towards our borders? Prophet Song is partly an attempt at radical empathy. To understand better, we must first experience the problem for ourselves.’ 

Discuss in groups

• Discuss the impact of the novel on you in relation to this quote from Lynch - did it make you feel differently about the plight of refugees elsewhere in the world? Do you emphatize with the issues of the protagonist?

• The Booker judges said the novel captures ‘the social and political anxieties of our moment’. To what extent do you think the novel is prescient, and do you think it is intended to be read as a cautionary tale? 

Today

First hour: 

• Listening practise

Second hour: 

• Prophet Song
• Work on documentary in your group

Quiz chapters 3-4

1. The groom at the wedding doesn't give a speech. What happens instead?
2. What event does Eilish's family attend together?
3. What does Mark's letter say?
4. Where does Mark hide?
5. What is published in the newspaper? What does Simon tell Eilish to do then? 
6. What does Mark do that upsets Eilish?

1. Sing the national anthem. Supporting the government.
2. A protest.
3. The state is drafting him when he turns 17.
4. Carole's house.
5. Leave the country while they still can. Mark's name and their address is printed in newspaper because he didn't show up to court.
6.  Joins the rebel army.

Quiz chapters 5-6

1. What do the men with a white van outside Eilish's house do? 
2. What does Bailey say is gaining power?
3. What does Eilish find out about Mark's whereabouts?
4. What happens at Bailey's school?
5. What does the state forbid when the war starts?
6. Why does Eilish go to the attic? What does she find there?

1. Sing the national anthem. Supporting the government.
2. A protest.
3. The state is drafting him when he turns 17.
4. Carole's house.
5. Leave the country while they still can. Mark's name and their address is printed in newspaper because he didn't show up to court.
6.  Joins the rebel army.

Moodle Reader Class #3

1. Form groups of four. Choose one topic each from the reader class #3.
2. Study the topic individually (in silence). Do further research if necessary.
3. Share what you've learned with your group members.
4. Draw connections between these topics and the novel.

• Fear
• Use of words
• Simplification of complex terms
• Bureaucracy and responsibility

1. Sing the national anthem. Supporting the government.
2. A protest.
3. The state is drafting him when he turns 17.
4. Carole's house.
5. Leave the country while they still can. Mark's name and their address is printed in newspaper because he didn't show up to court.
6.  Joins the rebel army.

Script and Story Board

Interview

B-Roll

Vérité Scene

Visual Style

Sound

Coverage

Quiz 1

1. Why does Larry report to the GNSB? 
2. What do the detective inspectors tell Larry?
3. What is the emergency powers act?
4. What does Simon tell Eilish to do?
5. What happens to Larry after the protest?
6. Why is Michael Given not able to help?

1. Eilish begs him to.
2. An allegation has been brought against him.
3. Legislation installed by the National Alliance Party that give the GNSB power to operate without charge and legal trial.
4. Flee the country with her family. 
5. He is arrested and detained.
6.  If they (union sollicitor) press for habeus corpus, they will be detained too.

What put me off was the author’s stylistic decision to avoid paragraphs or quotation marks. Much of the book was two pages of solid text, justified left and right so it was not at all easy on the eye. 

• Why do you think the author has chosen to write the story in this manner? 

1. Eilish begs him to.
2. An allegation has been brought against him.
3. Legislation installed by the National Alliance Party that give the GNSB power to operate without charge and legal trial.
4. Flee the country with her family. 
5. He is arrested and detained.
6.  If they (union sollicitor) press for habeus corpus, they will be detained too.

Stream of Conciousness

• a literary style in which a character's
  thoughts, feelings, and reactions are
  depicted in a continuous flow
  uninterrupted by objective description
  or conventional dialogue.
  

Today

• First class: 
• introduction
• documentary assignment

Second class: 

form groups of 1, 2, or 3

work on your documentary outline

What are we doing this period?

Planner in Moodle.

Documentary?

Documentary

• "creative treatment of actuality"

• "life as it is"

• "a factual film which is dramatic"

Documentary

Documentary filmmaking can be used as a form of journalism, advocacy, or personal expression.

Documentary

• Decide if you want to work individually or with one or two classmates.

• Work on your outline. 
• Finish and hand in at the end of class.