Thursday, February 28

Discussion of versions of War of the Worlds -- the book, the broadcast, the movies. Modern "personalist" ideology and H.G. Wells.

Wednesday, February 27

From a documentary film about Orson Welles we watched ten minutes concerning the 1936 "War of the Worlds" broadcast, after which we finished listening to that broadcast.


Tuesday, February 26

Students took a brief quiz over the final chapters of The Time Machine.
After that we listened to the beginning of the famous 1936 broadcast of the Mercury Theater's adaptation of War of the Worlds.

Monday, February 25

Discussion of The Time Machine ands its ideology. Was H.G. Wells a Marxist?

QuizTuesday over the entire book, after which we will listen to the famous 1936 Mercury Theater of the Air broadcast of Orson Welles's adaptation of War of the Worlds.

Monday, February 25

Discussion of The Time Machine and the ideology behind it. Was Wells a Marxist?

Quiz Tuesday over the entire book.

Friday, February 15

We watched a bit more of Metropolis (the ending) and discussed the film, comparing it with The Time Machine. Mr. Potratz supplied some political/historical background.



Thursday, February 14

Mr. Potratz was absent. The class watched the beginning of Fritz Lang's silent sci-fi classic film, Metropolis (1926).

Wednesday, February 13

Students took a quiz over Chapters 1-8 of The Time Machine, and we graded it.

We discussed the historical and ideological background of the book.

Tuesday, February 12



We began reading The Time Machine, and we had an evacuation drill.



Quiz Wednesday to begin the period.