12/15/16 Ben Curras MP2 Blog Post

Today, Thursday, the students focused on the preparation for the review of the short film, Feast. Starring the main character, Winston a dog, this short film stages a scene of a homeless pup who starts off scampering through trash to eat and survive. Then comes along Winston's future owner who offers Winston french fries and gains the trust of this lonesome dog. This man takes the dog into his house and Winston is happier than he has ever been before eating with his owner the food he never had a chance to eat before the owner came along in his life. Eating all types of food like pasta, pizza, cheetos, and other junk, Winston falls more in love with his new lifestyle the more he eats. Yet at the same time, as Winston falls more in love with food,his powner falls more in love with a girl who starts to date. The two develop a relationship which the owner starts to enjoy and put first priority, above everything else… including his dog, Winston. Winston’s owner and grilfriend start feeding Winston vegetables which Winston learns very quickly he does not like. But then one day, Winston’s owner breaks up with his girlfriend and is distraught and the two go back to their old unhealthy lifestyle which Winston loves. But eventually, Winston starts to realize the sadness his owner feels and is determined to make his owner happy so WInston leads his owner to his x-girlfriend who in that visit takes his owner back and the next thing the viewers know, the couple are married and move into a new house along with Winston and have a child. Viewers learn from the movie that through all the good and bad occurrences in our lives, everything will prevail and things always get better. At this point in the movie, Winston is happy as he is able to eat all the food he desires and his owner is happy as well with his new family. Now that ends the summary of the film. Yesterday, the students listed and chose topics to talk about concerning the short film in their table groups and that’s where we picked up today. Today, we took those topics and turned them into topic sentences where we try to avoid summarizing and focus on the evaluation of the short film. After we drafted the two topic sentences and some revision with discussion in the groups, we chose the stronger of the sentences and started building a paragraph of four sentences. That is all we had time for today.