on Mercury Theatre. Check out the Mercury Theatre website for streaming audio and downloadable versions of radio programs from the 1930′s.
Hear Dracula, War of the Worlds, Treasure Island, and, at the bottom of the page, an interview with Wells by Welles.
…talking cats, and broken hearts. I love this unit. I hope you’re loving your books.
You met in groups last week, wrote reading schedules, and planned responsibilities for Monday. If you aren’t sure what your part is for Monday, email your group or post a comment below.
If you have any questions about your position (or your grade, or any makeup work…), send me an email.
1. Go here.
2. Find something cool, bring it to class tomorrow.
3. Choose a book from this period:
- Charles Dickens’s The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1839)
- Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847)
- Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847)
- George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861)
- Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
- Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883)
- Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890)
- Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
- H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895)
- H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)—Flip through this before you choose. It’s better than the movies, but not the same.
- H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds (1898)
- Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902)—More modernist than Victorian, but worth including.
If, for some reason, you have chosen to write an essay instead of creating a screenplay, you must choose from one of these two topics:
- If the arrival of the messenger is equivalent to R&G’s birth, what is the meaning and purpose of their life, which is shown in its entirety?
- Contrast the player’s comments about death with Guil’s.
Also, please let me (and your group mates) know that you will be writing this instead of participating in the project.
