Just Another Day. ENG4U

“By the 1860s and 1870s the younger generation of British intellectuals was beginning to react against the excessive weight of moral criteria prevalent in critical judgments on the fine arts. Walter Pater led the way in this reaction by stressing the diversity of artistic experience and the need for flexibility in judgments. He directed critical attention to discrimination of the special and essential character of each work of art or artistic personality and to precise analysis of the effect each produces upon the individual. In effect, he developed refinement of critical response into a philosophy of life. “

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/walter-horatio-pater/

The Artist As Critic: a piece of work does not have meaning until it is given meaning from an observer/reader/listener. Therefore the critic is, in a sense, the artist.

Everyone sees things differently (although some opinions may agree with others, it is coincidental), and in their view they may or may not find beauty/turth/meaning. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Question: does any one person’s opinion have more value than any other? What is the difference in significance between a random person’s perception of a piece and someone who has been studying art for many year’s perception of a piece? [Artist temperament]

This is my summary. Please do not steal my words.

I’m beginning to stress out about this year. Not because my classes are too much. That’s not the case at all. I’m stressing over the fact that this is my last year. Last high school year, and then I need to pick and choose. I need to at least make a general decision about what I plan on doing next year and possibly years to come. College and university is all I’ve been hearing about since school started, which I know is good because it’s helping me to realize I need to get my ass in gear, but at the same time it’s now pushing me over that line to where I’m worrying but getting nowhere. I don’t want to make the wrong decision. I know whatever I decide doesn’t need to be permanent, but I also don’t want to end up wasting my time, wasting my life following a path that isn’t right for me. I don’t want to have to back-track. I don’t want to, at any point, have to start over. Ugh.

Sincerely, 135821.

“Oscar Wilde was the second son born into an Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) (her pseudonym being Speranza). Jane was a successful writer, being a poet for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848 and a life-long Irish nationalist.[1] Sir William was Ireland’s leading Oto-Ophthalmologic (ear and eye) surgeon and was knighted in 1864 for his services to medicine.[1] William also wrote books on archaeology and folklore.”

“After leaving Portora, Wilde studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1871 to 1874. He was an outstanding student, and won the Berkeley Gold Medal, the highest award available to classics students at Trinity. He was awarded a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued his studies from 1874 to 1878 and where he became a part of the Aesthetic movement, one of its tenets being to make an art of life.”

“In London, he met Constance Lloyd, daughter of wealthy Queen’s Counsel Horace Lloyd. She was visiting Dublin in 1884, when Oscar was in the city to give lectures at the Gaiety Theatre. He proposed to her, and they married on May 29, 1884 in Paddington, London. Constance’s allowance of £250 allowed the Wildes to live in relative luxury. The couple had two sons, Cyril (1885) and Vyvyan (1886).”

“In the summer of 1891, Oscar met Lord Alfred ‘Bosie’ Douglas, the third son of the Marquis of Queensberry. Bosie was well acquainted with Oscar’s novel “Dorian Gray” and was an undergraduate at Oxford. They soon became lovers and were inseparable until Wilde’s arrest four years later.”

“In December 1881, Oscar sailed for New York to travel across the United States and deliver a series of lectures on aesthetics. The 50-lecture tour was originally scheduled to last four months, but stretched to nearly a year, with over 140 lectures given in 260 days. ”

“When a recurrent ear infection became serious several years later, meningitis set in, and Oscar Wilde died on November 30, 1900.”

http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/bio3.htm

“A kind of criticism that tries to convey what the critic subjectively feels and thinks about a work of art.”

 http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/glossary/Impressionistic_criticism.html

“Impressionistic criticism is the kind of criticism that restricts itself to describing the critic’s own subjective response to a literary work, rather than ascribing intrinsic qualities to it in the light of general principles. Walter Pater’s defence of such criticism, in the Preface to his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), was that

‘in aesthetic criticism the first step towards seeing one’s object as it really is, is to know one’s own impression as it really is, to discriminate it, to realise it distinctly’

. The most common kind of impressionistic criticism is found in theatre and book reviews: ‘I laughed all night’; ‘I couldn’t put it down’.”

http://www.answers.com/topic/impressionism-literature

“Impressionistic criticism concentrates on and revolves round individual reactions and individual sensitivity.  [...] Impressionistic criticisn is neither rational nor logical. It has no worth in the field of knowledge nor in the field of emotion or sentiment.”

http://books.google.ca/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1637&lpg=PA1637&dq=impressionistic+criticism&source=web&ots=OA_T32Zs-S&sig=qa6IShApsLVBBLa06K9K6tvZwTg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

“…impressionistic criticism that is ruled by the persona; emotions that may have nothing to do with the work of art, though it may produce interpretations and translations that creates something new. In this instance, the impressionistic critic becomes an artist, creating new meanings and readings that were not present in the orginal artwork, and which is thereby lost in the process.”

http://books.google.ca/books?id=TlfLGxXN9PoC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=impressionistic+criticism&source=web&ots=vrGvCxU5w

L&sig=EQsvjJUUvLzRVZH4yyfjAbpgPO4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA18,M1

Walter Pater: http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/walter-horatio-pater

Oscar Wilde: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/

1.Create a lesson plan giving a detailed outline of your eventual presentation.

1.Objectives: 3 of them phrased in the following way: “Students will be able to…”

2.Resources: Everything you need to have in class in order to carry out your lesson

3.Methodology: Broken down by duration and content — who says what who does what, when and for how long

4.Evaluation: How will you know that the students have attained your objectives? A few cautionary comments here:

•no quizzes – the whole Jeopardy thing is not an accurate measure of learning or comprehension

•no candies!!!

2. A handout or booklet – sort of a Dummies Guide to… as a resource for the class. I will give your exemplars of such handouts created by students in previous years. Post this to the blog site of one of you group members

3. A full class presentation on your topic. This will be recorded and podcast.

Topic: Impressionistic criticism
Group: Cassondra V, Laurie D

My Part: Oscar Wilde & powerpoint presentation

Focus: What do you want to accomplish in this class?
1. I want to keep an above 80 average.
2. I want to improve my essay writing.
3. I want to learn to do what I need to do to succeed in life.
4. I want to ask more questions.

Contributions: What contributions will you make to this class this semester?
1. I will offer my help and support to any peers in need.
2. I will try to obtain a positive class attitude.

Accountabilities: For what behaviors will you be held responsible?
1. Coming to class almost every day.
2. Doing homework and handing in all assignments on time.
3. Being an active participant in class discussions.

Supports: What help, and from whom, will you need in order to achieve your accountabilities?
1. My mother- making sure I wake up in the morning.
2. Mr. Murray- confronting me if ever he begins to question my effort.
3. Mr. Murray- encouraging me to contribute daily.

Measurements: How will you know what success looks like?
1. Passing this class with at least a 75.
2. Not needing to be told to get and stay on task.
3. Not need to be told to hand in assignments.

Consequences: How should you be rewarded if you succeed? How should you be punished?
1. Knowing my mother is proud of me.
2. Punished by not being aloud out on school nights next semester.

School time has rolled around again, but this time it’s my last high school year. Going to enjoy it for sure. My classes are awesome. . . all except my chemistry class I’m taking next semester. I dislike chemistry. I very  much dislike chemistry. Sadly, I must take it though. It’s required if I plan on getting into the dental assistant program at Algonquin college next year. Fingers crossed.

I’m excited. This year has the potential to be the best one yet. English AND writer’s craft next semester. English both semesters? Kickass .

Mr. Curtis is being… something I should not say. Not allowed to leave the school during spares? … I mean, study periods … lame. We’ll see how long that lasts.

I’m ALSO  excited about starting to read my first book for this years class, and about doing the essay. Should be good. The book is short enough for my short memory span and it’s said to be excellent. Definitely should be good. Hopefully I can pass with a fairly superb mark in this class. It would mean a lot to me. . . and will insure my prayed for high average for the semester. I need to excel this year. I need to not get lazy this year. I need to keep in mind next year. Let’s do this.

Sincerely, 135821.

This goes along with Olivia’s book of work:

anthro-eutopian-school

Robert Frost Powerpoint

Group: Sam, Nick, Ali