ENGLISH 8
Last novel assignment that was due Thursday is now due on Monday. Yippee. No late passes on this one!
We read and watched a movie version of Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, a classic, Civil War short story about a Confederate soldier who is caught in a trap by a Union spy and later hanged for his crime, trying to blow up the Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce: born 1842, in Ohio, raised in Indiana, volunteered and fought for three years and was seriously wounded in the Civil War (was in battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga), lived in San Francisco, London, Washington, D.C, was a newspaperman wit, satirist, and author of sardonic short stories based on themes of death and horror.
Ambrose Bierce: born 1842, in Ohio, raised in Indiana, volunteered and fought for three years and was seriously wounded in the Civil War (was in battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga), lived in San Francisco, London, Washington, D.C, was a newspaperman wit, satirist, and author of sardonic short stories based on themes of death and horror.
In 1913, tired of American life, moved to Mexico
As a newspaper columnist, he specialized in critical attacks on amateur poets, clergymen, bores, dishonest politicians, money grabbers, pretenders, and frauds of all sorts. Kind of a blogger of yesteryear.
Two versions of the story: Civil War Stories, 2006, 30-minute version
French, no dialogue, broadcast on Twilight Zone, 1964
As a newspaper columnist, he specialized in critical attacks on amateur poets, clergymen, bores, dishonest politicians, money grabbers, pretenders, and frauds of all sorts. Kind of a blogger of yesteryear.
Two versions of the story: Civil War Stories, 2006, 30-minute version
French, no dialogue, broadcast on Twilight Zone, 1964
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