PYGMALION: Casting a 2009 Film Version of the Work

For this blog post, you are to come up with actors and actresses YOU think would play the part of various characters if you were directing a 2009 film version of PYGMALION. You need to fill the following roles AND justify why you chose the actors you did for each (for instance, you want to give reasoning as to why a certain actor would be good to play a particular character from the text). Here are the characters:

1. Eliza

2. Higgins

3. Pickering

4. Alfred Doolittle

5. Freddy

6. Mrs. Higgins

*Again, don't just list an actor for each character. Write an explanation justifying each choice. This blog post is due before 6 AM Tuesday, May 5th.

Class Agenda-Week of 5/4/2009

* Special Statement About Library Check-Out

Because all of the sophomore class will be doing some form of this project very soon, it is of the utmost importance that you return your books to the library on time. If you don't, then I will have to take points of off your final paper each day the book is overdue (the point loss is even more drastic if you have multiple books that are late). The grade will fall sharply each day you keep a book out past due. I cannot stress the severity of the point loss if you don't follow these directions.

Class Agenda-Week of 3/30/2009

Research Paper Topic Selection

Respond to this blog post with your research paper topic and the literary work. This is how you should format your response:


1. Topic: (type your topic here)


2. Literary Work: (type your literary work here)




*This is due before class, Monday, March 30th (2009)

Character Comparison: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and ?

For this blog post, you will pick a character from THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and any other character from our literature and discuss how the two characters are REMARKABLY similar to one another. Again, your aim is to find as many unique parallels between the two characters as possible.

This blog post is due before class meets on March 18th. Significant participation point loss (at least 5 points that cannot be regained) if you don't post on time.

*YOU MUST ALSO VOTE ON THE POLL QUESTION AT THE SAME TIME...

Class Agenda-Week of 3/16/2009