HAIR - THE FILM

THE PLOT AND ITS CHARACTERS
The film Hair tells the story of Claude Hooper Bukowski, who was a naïve farm man from Oklahoma that goes to New York in order to serve in Vietnam War. Once he still has some days before enlisting in the Army, he meets a group of hippies (Berger, Woof, La Fayette and Jeannie) with whom he spent his days using drugs. He also gets to know Sheila Franklin, a rich girl that he fell in love with.

Claude had to go to a camp in Nevada, where his new friends (the hippies and Sheila) try to make him quit from his duty tour in Vietnam. Berger changes place with him so he can see Sheila and the others who were outside the camp, but while Claude is driving back, Berger is sent to Vietnam. Unfortunately, his friend dies during the war.

This plot is a very important one because it stands as an example of the counterculture movement that was happening in the U.S.A during the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The hippies in the film, who endlessly attempt to make Claude give up of serving the army, are symbolizing the youth and hippies that rejected the Vietnam war, the segregation and the social norms. It can be clearly seem the sexual freedom with the character of Jeannie, who is pregnant and does not know who the father is, the presence of Sheila, the rich girl, and Lafayette, the black man, in the same group of friends show their position towards segregation.

Well, it is a must see!

XOXO,

Bruna

HAIR - SONG: I GOT LIFE

SOUNDTRACK : Text Linguist Analysis on the song:

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This song shows that it does not matter your skin colour, your bank account or your sex genre and it stresses that everybody is the same.


XOXO

Bruna

Sly and The family stone

Bruna

Sly and The family stone

Sly and The family stone were from San Frascico.

Their members were:

• Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart) (1967 - 1975): vocals, keyboard, electric guitar, bass, piano, harmonica, among others.

• Freddie Stone (Frederick Stewart) (1967 - 1975): vocals, electric guitar.

• Larry Graham (1967 - 1972): vocals, bass.

• Rose Stone (Rosemary Stewart) (1968 - 1975): vocals, piano, keyboard.

• Cynthia Robinson (1967 - 1975): thrumpet, vocals.

• Jerry Martini (1967 - 1975): saxophone.

• Greg Errico (1967 - 1971): drums.

• Little Sister; Vet Stone (Vaetta Stewart, Sly's sister), Mary McCreary, and Elva Mouton: backing vocals


With Sly´s death the band was over.


Bruna

Sly and The family stone

                Vietnam War, Feminism, Racial Injustices were the context of the Woodstock Festival, which was part of the Counter-culture movement.

Bruna

Sly and the family stone

Their songs talk about peace, love ans social consciouness/ awareness.

Sly and The family stone

Linguist Text Analysis on the song Stand

It is important to observe that what the song asks to do is to STAND for what we believe is right. But it is not said that we should change the system or what was happening. This is really meaninful once this band was part of the Counterculture, which did not purpose nothing (system, way) but the denial of what was happening in the world (Vietnam war, prejudice towards black people and women).

Love,

Bruna    

Sly and The family stone

XOXO,

Bruna

October 27th Class

On this class we talked about theory, motivation and methodologies, and we reflected about what do we believe in and what are our values as English teachers and learners, through the questionnaire below:

This was a really good exercise because it made us rethink what sometimes get as an automatic practice, as it could be seem, the questionnaire makes us pay attention on the learners (questions 2 and 4), language conception (questions 1 and 8), teaching (questions 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13), motivation (question 5) and culture (question 9) .