Day #3: Sunday

Sunday hiking excursion...

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[Caro, Lukas, Julia, Therese & Lena]

[Julia, Annika, Natalie]

[Anna-Lena, Julia, Tara, Julia]

After we finished watching the end of 10 Things I Hate About You, we discussed the differences between the original Taming of the Shrew and the newer adatptation of 10 Things I Hate About You. Here's what we found:

- Padua HS
- Pat Verona = Petruchio, interested in money
- Bianca can date, as soon as Kat does
- Kat is more likable - she really loves her boyfriend
- Cameron/Luciento as a disguised tutor, fell in love at first sight
- Quotations from Shakespeare "I burn, I pine, I perish"
- Absent mother
- Overprotective, worried father (preference for Bianca)
- Cameron likes Bianca for herself, not just her beauty
- Kat and Pat are both outcasts, Petruchio is in society
- The characters for 10 Things are developed further than Shakespeares
- Kat and Bianca's relationship is deeper than Katherina and Bianca's
- Kat cares for and is protective of Bianca, unlike Katherina, who hates Bianca
- Kat actually wants to be in a relationship with Pat, Katherina was forced into her relationship
- Kat and Pat are equals at the end of the film

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And we may be performing a song at the closing ceremony of our summer academy:

Cheap Trick's I Want You to Want Me.

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At the end of the film, Kat reads out a sonnet she's written for Pat (a version of Elizabeth Barrett Browing's Sonnet Number 43 - as we read on the handout):

I hate the way you talk to me,

and the way you cut your hair.

I hate the way you drive my car,

I hate it when you stare.

I hate your big dumb combat boots

and the way you read my mind.

I hate you so much it makes me sick,

it even makes me rhyme.

I hate the way you‘re always right,

I hate it when you lie.

I hate it when you make me laugh,

even worse when you make me cry.

I hate it when you‘re not around,

and the fact that you didn‘t call.

But mostly I hate the way I don‘t hate you,

not even close

not even a little bit

not even at all.

Since Kat could write such a heartfelt poem for her beloved, we too will be writing sonnets! Here below are instructions on how to write our very own sonnets (and poems to follow....)

How to Write a Sonnet

1) Subject – love, philosophy, life/death… modern sonnets have many subjects!

2) Divide into two sections

1 – present the situation or thought to the reader

2- conclusion or climax of the situation or thought

3) Form: a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g (iambic pentameter, if you like)


SONNET 114



Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you, (a)
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery? (b)
Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true, (a)
And that your love taught it this alchemy, (b)

To make of monsters and things indigest (c)
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble, (d)
Creating every bad a perfect best, (c)
As fast as objects to his beams assemble? (d)

O,'tis the first; 'tis flattery in my seeing, (e)
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up: (f)
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing, (e)
And to his palate doth prepare the cup: (f)

If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin (g)
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin. (g)

 

[Time in the computer room - writing trailers and sonnets]