Class Work TODAY

1. Tanima started the day with a very shrill cry for help - the CAT issue.
2. Abrar spent a whole night at the Shahbag Square - appropriating free food and obscene language (the name of the toilets bearing the names of Collaborators).
3. Today we read a few pages from Three Men on a a Boat.
4. We again went through the Filming Shakespeare Contest. 
1. http://filmingshakespeare.com/
5. We discussed two possible story lines for the FILM - 
1. Shylock - A changeling from the Forest
2. Streeting Shakespeare (incorporating A Mid Summer Day's Dream)

Students have been assigned with the following task - 

• Write the first page of your script - we have discussed the storylines - but you can definitely deviate at  your own will. just remember one thing - Film is a Collaborative Art.

An overview of 2012 and Programs for 2013

It is after a long time I am writing for our BLOG. As you all know that I had been sick for a long 100 days, I hardly had time for posting on the BLOG.

A lot of things are expected to happen too. But before that I would like to recount a few things.

The year 2012 have seen a few interesting things:

1. A few students from our English Language / Literature Class have got admission in the following Colleges - Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke College, BROWN, U Chicago, Sarah Lawrence College, Augsburg College, SUNY Buffallo and Georgia Tech.
2. ALL of the students received significant amount of Financial Aid [Between 85% - 92%]
3. Our O Level Literature students got A and B grades.
4. Azima Tarannum [Sunbeams, Class-VIII student] got a Silver in Commonwealth Essay Competition.

In 2013 we have taken the following steps

1. We have already watched Satjit Ray's c‡_i cvuPvjx and we have had a long-drawn class on its specific aspects. The students also presented Sketches on different scenes.
2. We plan to watch a few more such Films.
3. We have also decided to Work on a Screenplay based on a Shakespeare Play and turn it into a Short Film AND send it to international Film Festival.  
4. A few students of our class got registered for the online Academic Courses in Algebra and Modernism.
5. We have decided to work on EMMA.
6. We have been working on a few Poems and Novels too.
7. I will assign everyone their individual Comprehension works to Improve their Comprehension Performance. I shall USE the book General Certificate English for this purpose.

Some Recent Class Items we have worked on:

1. Malala Yousoufzai: A whole class on her life and works
2. A whole class of discussion on Buuzkashi Boys, an Afgan shoe-string budget film being screened in the Cannes.
3. Satjit Ray's c‡_i cvuPvjx