You have probably heard about our large writing project for this year - a Humorous Story of 10-50 pages which will be submitted to the Boston Globe Writing Contest on 12/4/09. We will spend class time during Reading and Writing and homework time, producing this work. Your student has a written timeline in their Reading/Writing folders which you can refer to for deadlines.
During the next few weeks, we will be seeing funny television and movie clips of famous comedians - Red Skelton, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Lucille Ball, some of the less offensive of Don Rickles, to name a few. I would also like to show clips from more contemporary comedians like Will Farrell, Jim Carrey, Saturday Night Live skits (e.g.,"Bassomatic"). The campfire scene from Blazing Saddles contains bodily humor and is funny because some people find it offensive. Your students have assured me that they are mature enough to handle it, but if you should feel differently, please let me know.
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Denise you have to show this video to the class http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M
ReplyDeleteWe'll see it in class! Thanks, Denise
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