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What’s the difference between reading of Mice and Men and watching the film?

There are many reasons for the differing between the novel and the film, but the key answer to this is that the novel is made through your imagination and the other is visualy created through someone elses view of the novel.

But in the film itself there were many scenes that weren't mentioned in the book, and in a sense did not follow the novels plot. The first, and to me, one of the most obvious was the start of the… Continue

I've noticed in the new unit plan that the work that we will completing in this unit will be completely different as we will be undertaking two projects, the short term and the major.
I also noticed the many questions that we can choose from for the tasks and i am still deciding which one i will undertake. I wondered whether or not we will still be constantly analysing romeo and juliet in class and how much time we will be spending on our tasks in class.

Question 1 - How does opening the play with a fight scene affect the audience?

Fight scenes are commonly used to intrigue the audience and are a great way to start any text as they give the audience a good impression of a thrilling yet action filled beginning. Though in this scene there is a fight between the Capulets and Montagues and this sets up the themes and the drama for the rest of the play. The fight scene is a good scene to open with as it draws the audience into the play throug… Continue

The thing that standed out the most to me in the presentations was the way people used their voice. If someone wasn't being confident or using a strong voice with expression i felt it was plain and like any other presentation, was 'rambling on'. Though with Zach and fazz's presentation i was intrigued by the way they undertook their task informally, as this made it originial and unlike any other presentation had character. Another big thing that i have learnt from the presentations would be the… Continue

I believe myself and hayden went quite well in the presentation yesterday, we both had our advantages and our disadvantages, one of Haydens advantages would have been his introduction as it used such a great structure. But the main disadvantage of our performance was the powerpoint presentation as it was left to the last minute