Miriam and Charlotte are doing a main lesson on drama right now. Here they are listening to a lecture about the Greek tragedy by Professor Vandiver. At the same time, they are practicing the skill of taking notes. We will read "Antigone" together and then move on to Shakespeare before reading a more modern play.
Miriam und Charlotte machen eine Epoche über das Drama. Hier hören sie gerade einen Vortrag über die griechische Tragödie, den Professor Vandiver hält. Gleichzeitig machen sie Notizen, eine Fähigkeit, die man auch erst erlernen muß. Wir wollen "Antigone" lesen und dann eine Komödie von Shakespeare. Danach wird noch ein modernes Drama folgen.
This is excellent and looks like fun. I love the Great Courses. Which lectures did you listen to? Will you do a Shakespeare lecture also, with a different professor? Have you chosen your modern play yet? Chanda and I have been reading and watching a documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright.
ReplyDeleteWe are listening to 1-4 and 11-12. Yes, we will also do lectures on Shakespeare. Miriam will do the Merchant of Venice, Charlotte has done that one already and we have to look for another play for her. I would like her to read a comedy. I think we will do "A Raisin in the Sun" because our college library has a lot of materials for that one.
DeleteFrank Lloyd Wright sounds wonderful. I toured one of his houses in Chicago once. There is also one in Buffalo, but the admission is really expensive. I do like his houses although his chairs do not look comfortable to me.
I just had an idea: I think we will read "The Imaginary Invalid" all together and Miriam will do "The Merchant of Venice" just with me. I read "The Imaginary Invalid" when I was in high school and thought it was just so funny.
DeleteThat sounds like fun! I haven't read The Imaginary Invalid. I'll have to reserve it at the library.
DeleteWe have a room from a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Met Museum, but it would be nice to see an entire house. I would love to see Fallingwater, or the Robie House in Chicago. I can imagine that the admission is high for those also! I read that he designed some chairs that tipped over, and also that his roofs often leaked :)
You should read it! It is so funny!
DeleteYes, it was the Robie House I saw, I stayed with friends for a week in Chicago and the house was in walking distance from their apartment. I don't think admission was so expensive, but that was in 1994.
I guess his houses were not meant to live in with those chairs and the roofs . . .
There was a quote in the book from a woman living in one of his houses that commented on the roof leaks and the beauty of the place. She had guests over during a rainstorm and as she ran to place pots beneath each leak that began in the ceiling, she said, "this is what one gets for living in a work of art."
DeleteThat is funny! It reminds me a bit of my parents' house. The man who build it tried to make it beautiful with wooden ceilings and exposed beams, but the kitchen is so sad! It is this tiny little hole, much too small for such a big house!
DeleteSmall kitchens are not fun to work in! And we can spend so much time there!!
DeleteYes, that is so true! My parents managed to squeeze in a table where the washing-machine was supposed to go. They moved the washing-machine upstairs. But the work space of this kitchen is probably not bigger than your kitchen and we were seven people in my family!
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