10/4/16 - Kada Cernek

Today, we started off class by recapping on yesterday’s lesson of citation. We were asked what three points are always needed to integrate a quote in which we all answer Introduce, Cite, and Analyze. We talked about our essay which is due in about a week and how we are going to integrate our quotes and cite our evidence. When referencing the book, the only thing we will be able to cite is quotes since in a book there are nothing but words to quote. However, in the film we have the option to either cite quotes, which in a movie is just dialogue, or integrate mise-en-scene elements. If you talk about mise-en-scene elements within your essay, you do not need to MLA cite this as it is not a specific quote. Next, we read a sample senior paragraph on the Great Gatsby and discussed with our group what works and does not work about this paragraph. Then after grasping the concept, on our own we were told to begin incorporating this technique into our own essay. The directions were to select a point of contact in our book/film, then craft a claim and observation about this point, finally effectively integrate this evidence. The remaining 10 minutes of the class were spent working on our own personal essay and crafting different claims between our text and our films.

I began to draft a paragraph for my essay on the major differences between the book The Martian, and the film. This is a picture from the scene where there are major intertextuality differences. In the film, Matt Damon has a smooth transition from one space vessel to the other while on the planet mars. However, in the book, Matt Damon gets into a big accident in the space rover almost causing destruction and death. Damon's space rover accident was a huge part of the story as it was that moment that created an emotional connection between the reader and the character. By not including this in the film, the plot line loses a lot.