BLOG POST – Book and Play version of Richard III by William Shakespeare

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Hi, This is Linda and here are all the blog posts that I need to be done. Although first, give me a sample of the first blog post so I could assess if the work is up to my standards. As well, before starting the first blog post, if there is a way I could get a sample of the writer’s work. There are 4 blog posts, 800 words each Assignment 1: Book Choice READ AND WATCH THE PLAY OF RICHARD III BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE YOU COULD USE QUOTATIONS FROM BOTH, THE MOVIE AND THE WRITTEN PLAY, DEPENDING ON WHICH BEST REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING LITERARY THEORIES. Assignment Icon Assignment 2: Blog Post #1: Applying Reader Response Literary Theory Blog Icon Blog Divide your play into three chunks. You will write your first blog post after reading/watching the first chunk of your play. For your first blog post, you will use reader response to respond to what you have read so far. It might be a good idea to review the reader-response theory in Unit 1 Activity 4 at this point. To guide your reflections on the book you have chosen, below you will find a series of questions to help you think about various aspects of the text. It is not intended that you address all of these questions. Predicting or Generating Expectations: What sort of things could happen in the short and long term? Puzzles: What puzzles or problems are you formulating at various reading moments? What specific questions are you asking of the text? Filling the Gaps: What gaps are you filling in the text? What connections between events are you making? What is the point of each event? Why was a particular character included in the play? (Keep in mind that you can still use the term character if you’ve chosen a piece of creative non-fiction even though the “characters” are real people) The Repertoire of Personal and Literary Experience: What connections are you making between events in your own experience and events in the play? Does the book remind you of other books you have read? Mental Images: What mental images are you forming of people, places and events in the play? Consider the nature of these mental images and where they come from. For example, are they purely pictorial or are they more significantly “feelings about” things? The Implied Author: What impression is the book giving you of the kind of person who wrote it? Do you find it difficult to sympathize with their view of the world? The Implied Audience: What kind of reader do you think the author had in mind as their audience for this play? Are you having any difficulty suspending your own values, prejudices, and worldviews sufficiently to enable the play to work on you? Why? Ideology: There is no such thing as an ideologically neutral text. What is the ideology of this text? What is the ideology of the society that saw fit to regard it as a great work of art? Since the play is not contemporary, why does it still speak to us today? Reflection/Self-Understanding: From considering questions like 1-8, what are you learning about: Yourself as a person? Your own strengths and weaknesses as a reader? What are your really productive reading strategies? (For example, when you come to “boring” bits, think about what boredom means to you, and what you are learning about yourself from being bored.) Assessment Criteria Your blog post should be approximately 500 words. It should contain direct references to your text and parenthetical citations Write in well-developed sentences and paragraphs Keep your level of language informal and conversational. Write in first person. Make observations that go deeper than the surface of the text. Think about the choices the author has made in constructing the text. Identify specific stylistic techniques, and conventions and explain why they are effective (or ineffective) when it comes to communicating a particular idea. Remember to comment on at least two other blog posts. Assignment Icon Assignment 3: Blog Post #2: Applying Archetypal Literary Theory Blog Icon Blog Before your write your second blog post, make sure you’ve read the second third of your play. In this post you will focus on archetypal literary theory to respond to what you have read so far. It might be a good idea to review archetypal literary theory in Unit 1 Activity 4 at this point. To guide your reflections on the play you have chosen, below you will find a series of questions to help you think about various aspects of the text. It is not intended that you address all of these questions. Do any of the characters in your play remind you of any archetypal characters (e.g., the Great Mother, the Mentor, the Trickster, the Hero)? Compare the archetypal characters in your play to archetypal characters in other books, movies, or myths. What does this help to reveal about the characters in your book? Look for any archetypal symbols that appear in the play (e.g., water, circles, the sun, the moon). What might they represent in the context of your play? How does the main character’s journey align with or differ from the archetypal hero’s journey? Based on that journey archetype what might you expect from the main character later in the play? Assessment Criteria Your blog post should be approximately 500 words. It should contain direct references to your text and parenthetical citations Write in well-developed sentences and paragraphs Keep your level of language informal and conversational. Write in first person. Make observations that go deeper than the surface of the text. Think about the choices the author has made in constructing the text. Identify specific stylistic techniques, and conventions and explain why they are effective (or ineffective) when it comes to communicating a particular idea. Remember to comment on at least two other blog posts. Assignment Icon Assignment 4: Blog Post #3: Applying Feminist or Postcolonial Literary Theory Blog Icon Blog Before you write your third blog post, make sure you’ve read the final third of your play. You’re being given a choice for this post since, depending on your play, it may be difficult to apply both feminist and postcolonial literary theory. So you can choose which one you’d like to use. It is a good idea to review feminist and postcolonial literary theory in Unit 1 Activity 4 at this point. To guide your reflections on the book you have chosen, below you will find a series of questions to help you think about various aspects of the text. It is not intended that you address all of these questions. Feminist: What is the protagonist’s attitude toward the male and female characters in the text? How is this evident and how does it affect your response to the characters? How are women represented in the text? What roles do both men and women play within family, work situations, etc.? (for example, hero, breadwinner, friend, helper, cook, servant, sex object…) What were the social and historical conditions for women in this period that might help us understand their roles and desires in the text? How do women exercise their power in the text? What are the consequences? How and to what degree are the women’s lives limited or restricted in this text? Postcolonial: How does the text represent various aspects of colonial oppression? What does the text reveal about the problems of post-colonial identity, including the relationship between personal and cultural identity? What person(s) or groups does the work identify as “other” or stranger? How are such persons/groups described and treated? What does the text reveal about the politics and/or psychology of anti-colonialist resistance? What does the text reveal about the operations of cultural difference – the ways in which race, religion, class, gender, sexual orientation, cultural beliefs, and customs combine to form individual identity – in shaping our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world in which we live? Assessment Criteria Your blog post should be approximately 500 words. It should contain direct references to your text and parenthetical citations Write in well-developed sentences and paragraphs Keep your level of language informal and conversational. Write in first person. Make observations that go deeper than the surface of the text. Think about the choices the author has made in constructing the text. Identify specific stylistic techniques, and conventions and explain why they are effective (or ineffective) when it comes to communicating a particular idea. Remember to comment on at least two other blog posts. Assignment Icon Assignment 5: Blog Post #4: Which Theory Provided the Most Insight Blog Icon Blog By now you’ve finished your play and you’ve analyzed it from three different perspectives. Which perspective do you believe allowed you to gain the most insight into your text? Which perspective allowed you to discover things about your text that required you to really think deeply and make connections both within text and to other texts, your own experience, and the world? Address these questions by looking at your play as a whole and making reference to key ideas from your text and to your chosen literary theory. You may also want to raise questions that you still have about your text at this point. Assessment Criteria Your blog post should be approximately 500 words. It should contain direct references to your text and parenthetical citations Write in well-developed sentences and paragraphs Keep your level of language informal and conversational. Write in first person. Make observations that go deeper than the surface of the text. Think about the choices the author has made in constructing the text. Identify specific stylistic techniques, and conventions and explain why they are effective (or ineffective) when it comes to communicating a particular idea. Overall Expectations Writing 1. Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience. Media 1. Understanding Media Texts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts; 2. Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques: identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning; 3. Creating Media Texts: create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques. Specific Expectations Writing 1.1 identify the topic, purpose, and audience for a variety of writing tasks. Media 1.1 explain how media texts, including complex and challenging texts, are created to suit particular purposes and audiences; 1.4 explain, with increasing insight, why the same media text might prompt different responses from different audiences; 2.1 identify general and specific characteristics of a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they shape content and create meaning; 2.2 identify conventions and/or techniques used in a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they convey meaning and influence their audience; 3.1 describe the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create; 3.3 identify a variety of conventions and/or techniques appropriate to a media form they plan to use, and explain why these will help communicate a specific aspect of their intended meaning most effectively.