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= THE CLASSICS! = The CLASSIC assignment, 2014 Make your Classic QUIZ! []& =WRITING SCRIPTS!= The sample/guide for turning your novel into a script is here: Mrs Boundy has discovered an Youtube site on which are audio versions of many of the Classic novels that we are studying. If you are struggling to read yours, you can go here, see if it's on the list, and have it read to you! [] Many are here: Around the World in 80 Days Alice in Wonderland Black Beauty ... = = Once you have REGISTERED, you will be able to complete your "Classic" assignment on the Wiki page that bears your name.
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 * The "raw" section from "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is ... [[file:ScarletRawTextforScript.docx]]**
 * ... and the script from that is - here: [[file:ScarletScriptScript.docx]]**
 * //The Classics //**

Complete your page in the following sections: Title and author Background: about the plot (brief synopsis) and the author Reading responses: questions, comments, observations about how it's changed (in the film, for example) or how differently we live now ... Character list and details: a short bio/profile on the major characters ... media type="custom" key="26172934" media type="youtube" key="yxEj6LYgX5g" height="315" width="420" A reading journal is a pretty simple thing to construct: after you have your "post-it" notes, use these to construct information "tags". No need to "chapterise", but you can link them in the the synopsis or to character profiles if you wish. For example: "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
 * Script section **
 * Scarlet Pimpernel section **
 * Five questions to a character or the author ... **
 * LATER:**
 * Time-travel essay:** add the story you write where you transport yourself back into the plot of the book
 * **aristos** - French term for the "aristocracy" - the wealthy nobility that controlled all government and property in France before the Revolution. Also **noblesse**
 * **Place de la Greve** - square not far from the **Temple Prison** where the guillotines were situated and nobility were dragged on **tumbrils** to be executed.
 * **Temple Prison**- a former fort built by the Knights Templar in the 12th century, used at this time for a prison for the nobility.


 * **ci-devant** - French term meaning "from before". In this case, meaning a Count or Lord from "before" the Revolution.
 * **pluck** - old word meaning courage or bravery.
 * **Citoyen Focquier-Tinville** - president of the Committee for Public Safety (actually an oxymoron: its job was to imprison anyone who challenged or objected to the actions of the Revolutionary council - rich or poor.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-1799 - at first slowly, the poor classes of a France that had existed as bsically a feudal state for hundreds and hundreds of years threw off the control of the wealthy, formerly politically powerful nobility, whose position was inherited, and who controlled the population through a mix of ruthless, brutal power and complete mastery of wealth. The novel portrays a number of historically acccrate characters (although the background of a few has changed: Chauvelin, for example was a marquis who survived the revolution by supporting the revolutionaries! In this is differs from Charles Dickens' famous novel of the same times, "A tale of two cities". The place ... Five questions ... of d'Artagnan: Hi d’Artagnan, thanks for giving us some time. Faith, it’s a pleasure. Zounds, but what is yon strange device in thy hand? Well, it’s a video camera, but let’s not worry about that. Why did you want to join the King’s Musketeers? Forsooth, but it was a family tradition. My father had been a musketeer, and my grandfather before him. Besides, what man would stay on a farm, when he could travel the world, and fight for honour and glory? Um, yeah, right. So killing people is “glory”? Faith, sir, one cannot be too squeamish when the honour of France, and the fate of the Queen of France hangs in the balance! Really? So because some stuck-up French madam has an affair with an equally stuck-up English man-whore, you get to run around stabbing people with three-foot long bit of steel? What’s that you say? Ne’er impugn Her majesty’s honour – or prepare to die! Hey, chill, pal! Impugn her honour? Not possible, since it doesn’t exist. Anyway, you’re only 19 or 20 … how do you handle the fact that you’ve killed people in hot blood? In truth, ‘tis never pleasant to kill, even in the line of duty. When Milady met her traitor’s end, without the other musketeers, my comrades-in-arms, I would not have had the strength to bear the look of entreaty on her beautiful face. Yeah, must have been really tough. But you still cut off her head. And apart from that, who made you guys judge, jury and executioner? By God sir, you test my patience! That foul harlot murdered my dearest Constance ... Who was someone else's wife, as it happens. Listen mate, forget it. Thanks for your time. Here's the Classic PLANNING sheet that we did in class.
 * The event behind the scenes is ...**