Beauty

Context
I am creating a lesson plan for Cyrano de Bergerac with the theme of beauty. I remember a show I saw about beauty. Well, I finally found it on YouTube. Here it is.
I am hoping that I can download it for my students.

Unrequited Love Songs

Context
I am creating a lesson for Cyrano de Bergerac where the students will write lyrics from Cyrano to Roxanne with the theme of unrequited love. I was looking for some songs I could use as models. Here are a couple of video clips that would be helpful:

"Layla" by Eric Clapton



"Girl from Ipanema" by Andy Williams & Antonio Carlos Jobi


"What a Fool Believes" by Doobie Brothers




"Long, Long Time" by Linda Ronstadt



"Midnight Confessions" by The Grassroots




Don't forget the Taylor Swift song "Teardrops on My Guitar" that I posted earlier!

How I could use this in class

My First Documentary!

I'm very excited to present my first documentary created in iMovie. It has been quite a learning process since I have never edited any film and never used iMovie before. The learning curve was steep!

I shot 60 mins. of interview, had over 20 photos, but had only 3 - 5 mins. to present it all. Learning what to cut out was the most important concept I learned.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Context

I found this Jose Ferrar scene of Cyrano de Bergerac on Youtube and thought how it compared to the play and the Depardieu version. The language has indefinitely been modernized.

How I could use this in class

I thought it might be fun to have students re-create this scene in a modern setting. What trite words would Christian say to Roxanne? "I think you're really cool?" How would they make "I love you" more eloquent?

Another idea I had was to shorten the long (58 lines) monologue in Act II. I would give them the scenario that they are screenwriters and must cut this scene to fit in the 2 hour length. I would have to show them some examples of screen plays to learn the format thenhave them partner and go to work.