特別ポスト: Writing English 1A makeup writing on comparison & contrast with art・補講書き「美術の比較対照」

Hello!

How are you? As I talked about in class, here is the makeup writing (補講書き). 

Let's look at the two very different paintings above. 

The one at the top is called Young Girl Reading, and is by the 19th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting below it is called La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) by Albert Gleizes, an early 20th-century French artist. 

Corot's painting is an example of a style called realism (写実主義). It tried to show everyday life the way it was lived by everyday people, almost in a documentary style.  

But Gleizes' painting is very different - it is an example of a style called cubism (キュービズム). It tried to show people, objects, and nature from different angles and directions all at once - for example, showing a 3-D object like a table at every possible angle on a flat, 2-D surface.  

The most famous realist artist was Gustave Courbet, while the most famous cubist artist was Pablo Picasso. 

Task

Let's look at these paintings above. Which one do you like?

What impression (感想) does each one make on you? What kind of feeling do you get from each one? What do you see in the figures, places, and situations in each painting? Make a few notes for yourself about each one. 

Then - write 2-3 paragraphs about which one you like better, and why! Have this finished and bring in next week on 7/19!

Have fun with these! See you next time! 

Images: Top - Young Girl Reading by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - National Gallery of Art, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11497975/La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) by Albert Gleizes - http://armory.nyhistory.org/woman-with-phlox/PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40048817/Both images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Writing English 2A: Spring semester final writing assignment・前学期期末作文

Hello!

How are you? Today I will introduce our spring semester final writing assignment (前期期末作文).

It will be on writing a comparison and contrast (比較対照) short paper. You have a choice of two tasks – choose one.

One task is close to the kind of writing you have already done. The other is maybe more abstract (抽象的), and more of a challenge, but one you might find very interesting. Here are the choices:

1           1. Comparing and contrasting your life in high school with your life in university.

2           2. Comparing and contrasting two different works of art.

About the task

For the first task choice:

While many of you might have had similar experiences in your high school life, I would like you to go into details. First, where did you go to high school? What were your favorite classes there? What were the classes you didn’t like? What do you feel were your best subjects? How about your worst subjects? What about the school facilities (施設) – for example, the classrooms, places for sports, or things like the school lunches? What were they like? 

How do any of these things compare (比べる) with your life here at Daito Bunka so far? What do you find about the classes in university that are different (or similar) to your high school education? Once again – go into details about these things. What has been the most difficult thing you have found so far about your university life and education – and what has been the best thing?

For the second task choice:

Look at these pairs of artworks. Choose one pair of paintings, research about who the artists are and when they did the artwork, and write a comparison and contrast about the artworks.

How are the pair of pictures like each other? How are they different? What do you feel from the pictures? What impression (感想) do you have of the pictures? What kinds of ideas, images, feelings, or even a story do you get from what you see?

This may be more challenging for you – but you might find this more interesting, especially in how you can bring your feelings and impressions into the writing. Here are the artworks: 

Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) (Edouard Manet)

 La sonate (The Sonata) (Marcel Duchamp)

Three Musicians (Pablo Picasso)

Composition 6 (Wassily Kandinsky)

How much to write

I would like you to write around 4-5 paragraphs on your task choice - but if you can write a little more than that, go for it! 

I am gathering your writing about your high school and university life into a book called Places & Traces – student writing on places and impressions about them. For writing about artwork, I am gathering these into a book called Every Picture Tells a Story - student writing about art and photography. So try to write to the best you can, because your work may be published (出版した) on both the blog and in these books! 

Deadline (締め切り) 

It will be next week (来週) on July 20th (7/20), and it will be a final version (完成版). This means you must begin writing now – do not wait until the day or night before!

To help you, I will give you a draft sheet (下書きシート) that you can write ideas, notes, topic sentences, and supporting sentences on. You will then write your final version on a separate sheet of notebook paper. On 7/20, you will hand in both the draft sheet and the final version.

Good luck! I hope you can enjoy writing on your choices.

Images: Top - by diskdepot.co.uk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45553155/First painting - Breakfast in the Studio (the Black Jacket) by Edouard Manet - By Unknown - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=154408/Second painting - La sonate (The Sonata) by Marcel Duchamp - PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39690832/Third painting - Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso - by MoMA, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4072766/Final painting - by Wassily Kandinsky - State Hermitage Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37610958

Culture through English 2A: Presentation display examples (Part 2)・プレゼンテーション例え

Hello! 

How are you? Here I will show you some more examples of student presentation displays. 

Let's look at these! These next shots came from a Power Point show from a Chinese student I had at another university. 

Those were great! Now here are some more displays:

Isn't that great? Now how about this one? 

Check out this one too. This one I really like!

I hope these will help you for your presentations!

Good luck! See you next time!

Images: Personal photographs and screenshots of student presentation displays. All rights reserved on source material to the students.

Culture through English 2A: Presentation display examples (Part 1)・プレゼンテーションの例え

Hello! 

How are you? Today I'd like to show you some more great examples of past student displays.

Look at the one at the top - isn't it great? I showed you this one last week, but I am posting it here again. It was from a topic about students' favorite places.

The ones below came from a different university that I used to teach at.

What I will look for is creativity (創造力) in your displays. Look at these displays!

How about this one?

What do you think of these ones? 

Now check these out - four slides of a Power Point show!

Make your displays colorful and interesting to show.

I hope these displays and ideas can help you with your presentations! I will show more examples in a Part 2 post after this one.

Good luck! See you next time!

Images: Personal photographs and screenshots of student presentation displays. All rights reserved on source material to the students.