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Dennis G. Jerz
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Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University. Literature, journalism, Shakespeare, and digital humanities. jerz.setonhill.edu
Part 3: ChoiceScript IDE (Dennis G. Jerz, Choice of the Rhetor, Computers & Writing 2023)
- statistics / variables: *create, *stat_chart, *set
*input_text (character name and pronoun), ${[variable name]}
- Open a project (from local computer)
- Hiding or displaying choices (dependent on statistics)
*gosub_scene [filename] [label]
- Gold system
- Fatigue / sleep system
*temp (simple choice-based combat)
- fairmath operators %+ , %- for stats between 0 and 100.
- Using the ChoiceScript wiki
Links mentioned in video: jerz.setonhill.edu/choice-of-the-rhetor/
*input_text (character name and pronoun), ${[variable name]}
- Open a project (from local computer)
- Hiding or displaying choices (dependent on statistics)
*gosub_scene [filename] [label]
- Gold system
- Fatigue / sleep system
*temp (simple choice-based combat)
- fairmath operators %+ , %- for stats between 0 and 100.
- Using the ChoiceScript wiki
Links mentioned in video: jerz.setonhill.edu/choice-of-the-rhetor/
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Part 2: ChoiceScript IDE (Dennis G. Jerz, Choice of the Rhetor, Computers & Writing 2023)
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- Distribute all the content from Part 1 into scenes (*gosub_scene, *return, *goto_scene) - Expand the story quickly with *fake_choice - Add more choices to the ranger_quest scene. Links: jerz.setonhill.edu/choice-of-the-rhetor/
Part 1: ChoiceScript IDE (Dennis G. Jerz, Choice of the Rhetor, Computers & Writing 2023)
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- Install the ChoiceScript IDE - Commands *title, *author, *comment, *choice and *finish - Adding text (saving and re-compiling) - Indentation and fixing the "Expected choice body" error - *label and *got - [b]bold text[/b] - nesting *choice within a *choice - *page_break (and customizing the "Next" button) - Tweaking the pace by giving the player more feedback and more agency Links: jerz.seton...
Part 0: ChoiceScript overview (intro to gameplay; preview of code; crafting meaningful choices)
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A very quick demonstration of the basic function of a ChoiceScript game. See the next video (Part 1) for a more detailed introduction go ChoiceScript commands. This video is mostly focused on the player's experience, but includes examples of ChoiceScript elements startup.text, *input_text, printing the contents of variables, choicescript_stats.txt, *link, *choice, *goto, *label, a loop, *scene_...
Welcome to Shakespeare In Context (Fall 2021)
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0:00 Introduction 3:28 Course Overview 5:19 Shakespeare in Context 8:46 Some Words on Language 10:31 Language is contextual. (Shut UP!!) 11:23 Language? is contextual? 14:59 Youth Drive Language Changes 16:40 Upcoming Assignments
Inform 7: Detective/noir-themed setting, props, and NPCs (Video 3, Computers and Writing 2022)
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Inform 7: Detective/noir-themed setting, props, and NPCs (Video 3, Computers and Writing 2022) Blog post (with links to "CC BY 4.0" source code) jerz.setonhill.edu/2022/computers-and-writing-workshop-on-inform-7-happening-now
Inform 7: Coding a "Your Office" location and several props (Video 1; Computers and Writing 2022)
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Playlist: ruclips.net/video/Fk5A3jN1XRo/видео.html This video introduces Inform 7, a programming language designed for authoring command-line interactive fiction games (also known as text adventure games). Blog post (with links to "CC BY 4.0" source code) jerz.setonhill.edu/2022/computers-and-writing-workshop-on-inform-7-happening-now Previous: What is Interactive Fiction? ruclips.net/video/Fk5...
Inform 7: Coding a journalism-themed setting, props, and NPCs (Video 2, Computers and Writing 2022)
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Inform 7: Coding a journalism-themed setting, props, and NPCs (Video 2, Computers and Writing 2022) Blog post (with links to "CC BY 4.0" source code) jerz.setonhill.edu/2022/computers-and-writing-workshop-on-inform-7-happening-now
What Is Interactive Fiction? (Video 0; Computers and Writing 2022)
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As part of a workshop on the text-adventure programming language Inform 7, this video briefly introduces the concept of command-line interactive fiction. Blog post (with links to "CC BY 4.0" source code) jerz.setonhill.edu/2022/computers-and-writing-workshop-on-inform-7-happening-now Playlist: ruclips.net/video/Fk5A3jN1XRo/видео.html Previous: Coding a Magic Wardrobe Game ruclips.net/video/2yxw...
Yvonne "Mrs. Shakespeare" Hudson Interview
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Interview with Yvonne Hudson, creator of a solo show on the life of Anne Hathaway, whose husband's work you might have heard about. Students in my "Shakespeare in Context" show watched excerpts from her show and learned about her research. In this video, Ms. Hudson reacts to comments posted by my students; shares what she learned about the women in Shakespeare's life and the women in his plays;...
EBSCOhost Library Database Search Demo (MLA Style)
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0:14 Logging into the Reeves library databases from MySHU 0:49 EBSCOhost is not the database you should name in your citations. EBSCOhost is a tool you can use to find databases. 1:05 Using the tool EBSCOhost to search for "Full Text" articles 2:00 Narrowing your search (set date range; click "Peer Reviewed" and adjust keywords) 3:55 Analyzing a sample article (preparing to read) 6:25 Looking f...
Details Drive the News (2 of 2)
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In part 2 of this lecture for entry-level journalism students, we begin with a acceptable but bland version of a story, trim the fat, and add more newsworthy and engaging details. Good journalists get the facts right, by the deadline; if they can also choose powerful words that engage the reader, then they're really demonstrating mastery of language.
Details Drive the News (1 of 2)
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In journalism, details drive the news. But don't let a stream of irrelevant details bury the news. This lecture for entry-level journalism students walks through several examples to illustrate how some common writing strategies that you may have mastered in your high school English or college composition classes differ from the writing strategies that will lead to good journalism.
What Is Newsworthy? (Journalism Basics)
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How do journalists determine what events are worth covering? "Dog bites man" is routine, but "man bites dog" is unusual, so it's more newsworthy. Unusual events are more newsworthy than ordinary events. Important people, and ordinary people who do important/unusual things are more newsworthy than ordinary people who do ordinary things. Events with a significant impact are more newsworthy than e...
King Hedley II (Introduction to the structure of August Wilson's drama)
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King Hedley II (Introduction to the structure of August Wilson's drama)
Fences (Literary Analysis of August Wilson's play)
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Fences (Literary Analysis of August Wilson's play)
Historical Context for American LIterature
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Historical Context for American LIterature
Gem of the Ocean, by August Wilson (Intro to Act 1)
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Gem of the Ocean, by August Wilson (Intro to Act 1)
EL273: Special Topics in Am Lit: August Wilson
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EL273: Special Topics in Am Lit: August Wilson
The Cherry Orchard: Brief Analysis (2/2)
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The Cherry Orchard: Brief Analysis (2/2)
The Cherry Orchard (Context and Introduction) 1 of 2
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The Cherry Orchard (Context and Introduction) 1 of 2
Skin of Our Teeth (Context and Overview)
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Skin of Our Teeth (Context and Overview)
Oedipus Tyrannos (Critical Introduction 2/2)
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Oedipus Tyrannos (Critical Introduction 2/2)
American Literature 1776-Present (J-Term 2019/20, Seton Hill University)
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American Literature 1776-Present (J-Term 2019/20, Seton Hill University)
A Midsummer NIght's Dream (Intro to Act 2)
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A Midsummer NIght's Dream (Intro to Act 2)
Lopakhin kh is the sound as in JS Bach. Лопахин.
Nice analysis of a great play. I found it an easy (and at times, hilarious) read. It's fast-paced without ever feeling rushed, and seems timeless.
@@chrislusk3497 Thank you for letting me know. I’m glad you found it worthwhile.
My niece Alex Jay just started as Tonya in The Black Rep's production . Amazing play, intense dialogue and powerful performances. The issues they faced in the 80s are still relevant today
So glad to hear that!
This analysis is full of generalizations that are inaccurate or misleading. As a crude overview it might be slightly instructive to young people who know virtually nothing about the period That's covered. But certainly there are other sources of information that are far more accurate and informative
Are you having a bad day? Of course I'm giving a general overview, for the benefit of my undergraduates, for whom everything that happened "back in the nineteen hundreds" is a history lesson. Of course there are other sources of information. What do you recommend? From one of your playlists it looks like you are a big fan of old movies. Would you rather share your thoughts and actually have a conversation with someone who might appreciate your insights, or are you just trolling for kicks?
Thank you so much ❤
Is it possible to run choice script on android?
You can play the games on any platform -- the output is HTML, so it should work in any somewhat recent web browser. If you mean can you create ChoiceScript games using just an android, I don't know. I haven't followed these instructions, but here's someone else's response to a similar question. forum.choiceofgames.com/t/choice-script-on-my-android-phone/34106/3
The High School Production of The Cherry 🍒 ORCHARD on You Tube (from Texas) fantastic as most High School plays are!!!!!
Thank you for this. I'm reading this play for pleasure and will admit that I'm struggling to keep the characters straight. This was super helpful. Thank you for doing it.
I’m glad to know you found it so helpful. Thanks for letting me know.
I learned late in life, but the only and best way to learn a play is to watch it. RUclips is a marvel. Then, reading it can refine my understanding.
Dennis, do you have note on "THE GLASS MENAGERIE" ?
That's a great one, and in fact my daughter and I were just talking about one of Amanda's monologues this morning, but no, I don't have a video on that one.
@@DennisGJerzSHU Wow! What did you talk about? Her "Malaria fever and jonquils" Monologues??? I have to perform this on Monday at East West Theater in LA. Love to hear your take on this.
@karinok She was talking about helping a student of hers recognize the multiple ways in which Amanda’s typewriter school monologue is manipulative. Break a leg in your performance! Come back and tell me how it went, if you like.
@@DennisGJerzSHU Thank you Dennis!
Thank you Dennis. This was so helpful. The best youtube video I have ever seen!
I'm honored, but I've seen more than a few that are much better than this! Glad you found it helpful.
I have an literature exam in 2 days and i havent read this yet but your video helped me a lot thank u😊
I think you should still read it! You can put on a RUclips recording while you fold laundry or go for a walk.
@@DennisGJerzSHU thank u so much i dicovered your channel with this video i am studying American Culture and Literature actually i think your videos will be a huge help:")
Many Thanks, most gentle teacher😅
I'm glad you found it helpful!
thank you so much Mr Jerz, I literally logged back into my youtube account to say a huge thanks!!! I am doing last minute cramming for my A Level exam and this was a really engaging video, your students are lucky to have you 🥰
What a very gracious response. I'm glad to know you found this so helpful.
I have had a problem with characters and names before I watched this video , thanks a lot❤❤
I have to say how highly I admire your delivery of this information, Mr. Jerz! I have my final A-Level exam on American Literature next week, and the careful-yet-clearly-passionate intelligence in this contextual presentation of yours, has saved me regarding the 'historical context' element of the course! Thank you very much for this, and warm wishes from the UK.
I'm so glad to know you found this helpful!
Thank you from Egypt, it's really helped me
I'm glad to know you found my video useful.
This is wonderful. Thank you
I appreciate this. It was much needed
Is it possible (if yes, how?) to create an adventure in another language. I mean not the programming part, but gamplay.
With Inform 7 it's theoretically possible, but I don't think anyone has created all the libraries and support systems that would be needed to do so. There were many such libraries for Inform 6. ganelson.github.io/inform-website/book/WI_27_27.html As a test, I Googled for "interactive fiction spanish" and found this page: www.ifwiki.org/History_of_Interactive_Fiction_in_Spain You might also search IFDB.com, where I found a list of German adventure games. ifdb.org/viewlist?id=3c4rcpa6xzzyitut
Love from Pakistan ❤❤❤thank you so much
Thank you Dennis, this is very clear. Excited to get started making my own
I learned to program using Inform 7. It makes me a little sad that interactive fiction is such a niche medium nowadays. Maybe that can change.
Have been watching alot of video on RUclips about The Cherry Orchard. Watched only half of it as of writing this comment because I wanted to take time out from it to say that this is by far the best video out there regarding this play. Thank you😄
Thank you so much for this lecture! I'm Lucas, a brazilian scholar. I'm writing my master's thesis but already thinking on my doctors' one. I study Virginia Woolf, at the moment focusing the feminist historic review in Between the Acts. Now I'm diving into Shakespeare studie only because of Woolf, sorry Shakespeare, it's not you, it's me, I'm just obsessed with Woolf. I'm surprised to be finding such a prolific and avant-garde discussions over Shakespeare and really considering something of the sort on my future in academia. Your videos are certainly part of this amazement feeling I'm having.
Thank you for your kind note, Lucas. I'm glad to know you found this lecture useful for your own studies.
@1:40 the provisional government was not the peasants, it was a mix of the old royalists (pro-war right-wingers) and some mensheviks (democratic socialists) and SR (socialist revolutionaries, a bourgeois party aligned with the bolsheviks and mensheviks). The workers with help from the soldiers deserting from the war front and some Cossacks who supported the bolsheviks did most of the overthrowing before October. Point is, for Chekov's backdrop, the Tsar and the rentier landed aristocracy was so badly loathed a total shambles of a coalition could take the aristocracy down even when right-wing proto-fascist nationalists tried to stop them.
Thank you. To help students understand the context of the play, the main ideas I wanted to get across were that an 1) uprising took the aristocracy down, and 2) the peasants didn't wind up in control. In my attempts to boil a complex issue down into a few bullet points, I -- who profess no expertise in Russian history -- didn't do the topic justice.
Thank you
I'm glad to know you found it useful!
This is the best video i have ever seen , thank you for these valuable information ❤️
Glad it was helpful!
Wonderful commentary. I enjoyed both of these videos on the play. All your insights are helpful. Thank you very much. Any tips for teaching it the first time to 10th graders in High School?
Hello, I'm glad you found this helpful. I don't have any experience teaching high school, but I as a white person I learned a lot about the "Middle Passage" as an important cultural ritual. I'd say it's important to get young people to understand the difference between reading a script (that has to be interpreted by the creative choices of the director and actors, as well as costumers, lighting designers, etc), and watching someone else's interpretation. If there's an African history center in your area, or anyone with personal experience in the kinds of participatory, creative dramatizations of a shared cultural experience, that might be a starting point. As a Christian I grew up very familiar with Christmas nativity pageants and an in-church participatory dramatization of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus, but those aren't really designed to create a *change* in the participants. So I think some discussion of what the detailed stage directions mean, and what impact the experience will have on the live audience as well as the characters on stage, would be appropriate.
Wonderful commentary on this work. I am teaching it for the first time and really appreciate your insights and ideas about this play. Thank you! Do you have any teacher notes that you could share with another teacher? :)
Thank you so much.
Thanks, Sir. very good help in understanding the jew of Malta
Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad to know it was helpful!
I wish we could meet & talk face to face! Dr Bidyut Bose
Of course, it's comical and very dark, time and again but I liked it, of course, I found Uncle Vanya better and next is 'Seagull', in fact, I intend to watch/listen all the plays by Chekhov, this time around when most of his short stories I have already gone through. I should not make any haste but I feel that Chekhov was a better short story writer than a playwright, If I may......
When I teach Chekhov in a class full of creative writers I usually do mention his short stories, but I wanted to keep this video lecture a bit more focused. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Its so great to see Americans reading the stories our country's author wrote. Chekov was indeed a master of short stories. Everything is absolutely well delivered Thank you
It's interesting
Me too reminded of GoT.. glad to know i am not alone
Great video. Could you help answer a question? In Othello In what ways is Shakespeare hinting at England’s politics of the time?
That sounds rather like a homework question to me. What do you know about the politics of England at the time? What were some debates, controversies, discoveries, or problems Shakespeare’s contemporaries were facing (or ignoring) at the time? Where in the play do the characters face (or avoid, or at least talk about) similar issues?
Was thornton trans? The idea of them only have TWO KIDS and they use to have two sons…. Until Cain hurt the brother and he because a she…. And the kid at the end being a doll…. Like she did not know she was trans.
Babies are unpredictable and noisy, so any time a baby appears in a live play we can expect it to be represented by a doll. I don't think the presence of a doll on stage is enough to read Gladys the way you suggest, but perhaps an individual director might want to cast it that way.
@@DennisGJerzSHU well obviously they can’t have a real baby on stage. But from a play inside a play point of view it could have double meaning. What is the thought of all the double talk about I use to have two sons? And now we have 1. And that she only had 2 kids? Is it suppose to be assumed the girl is adopted?
I think the most likely interpretation is that Gladys happened to show up the usual way, right around the time when Cain killed Abel, so the number of kids the Antrobuses have was still two, just not the same two. If you think of this play as Wilder's hopeful prediction that the human race will survive thanks to the resilience of the traditional family unit, then it makes the most sense for Gladys and her baby to have arrived the traditional way. A director who does a gender-blind and race-blind casting can turn any traditional play into a commentary about present-day values and relationships. If the point you want to make is that human civilization is going to continue via found families, made up of individuals who create their own identities and find each other, I don't see lines in "The Skin of Our Teeth" that support that idea. Because my professional focus is on the words written in the scripts, rather than what it's possible to do with those words in a production, then to explore "found family" I would not look at Skin, I'd instead look to "Rent" or "Into the Woods" or "In the Heights."
Interesting….. I really don’t know much about theater and just saw this play last night and it hit really hard. After looking up the writer I found that he never married, was more than likely a member of the LGBQIA+ community and back in a time when it was not safe to be. The play made much more sense to me after I learned this. The crowd at the Theater was much older than the group I was with and it was an interesting perspective that most people there would not of understood.
Amazing analysis Dennis! I am working on my research paper on Fences right now and coincidentally I am also using Walking Around the Fences as one of my sources. You also did a great job at expressing what the differences are between writing about literature in college compared to high-school with that frog/science class analogy. Honestly I am super thankful for this video, you seem like an excellent teacher!
Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you found it helpful.
Thank you, you really opened my mind to ideas I hadn't thought of
I'm glad to know you found it interseting!
Wilder's first Pulitzer Prize was awarded in 1928 for his novel, THE BRIDGE AT SAN LUIS REY. It is not a play.
Oops, did I misspeak? Thanks for the correction.
Thank you, sir.
Excellent and well delivered. So enjoyable to listen to.
I think it s comedy when you look from villagers side, strong masters became miserable and u laugh something happens to ones you don't like. Its called tragedy because people want to look from masters side. rich people become poor is a sad story if you are rich. If you examine Great gatsby , it simply says with all your money and greatness you can never be one of us. True Blue!! Chekhov laughs true blue . thats why hero of this play says i am villager even i wear nice clothes , don't be fooled , i am the winner here on first scene
Thanks a alot from jordan 💞👋it was so helpful !
thanks alot that helps me alot
Thanks for letting me know.
Thanks for this context and analysis. I first saw “The Skin of Our Teeth” about 30 years ago and was terribly confused, but also charmed by it. I recently read it, and the information that you share is really helpful in understanding what Wilder was trying to do.
Thank you for your feedback. I just saw a live production for the first time a few days ago. There's always more to learn about a good play.
Great discussion. I’m teaching Fences in a high school, and this is helpful for me to brainstorm some ideas to help my students wade into the text.
I'm glad you found it helpful, Kevin.
Great analysis thank U Sir for helping me to understand the story better now
@@empressgifty2732 Thanks for letting me know. I'm glad you found it helpful.
Thank you
Thank you!
Thank you sir it was helpful 🙏
I'm glad to know that! Thanks for your comment.