Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:
Watch the film and read the PDF to complete the commentary.
Moive: A touch of Zen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-TTb72eUH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHz2B-_sLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yl5AhTv_D0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdXkaLpDU4
PDF: Stephen Teo pm A Touch of Zen (only pages 1-28)
(I cant find the full film online, if you can find the full film it please watch it, if you can not find it, just watch the links above. Also, the PDF you just have to read pages 1-28 to write the commentary.)
Commentaries
• Purpose: to cultivate the habits of critical reading by making arguments and providing evidence
• Content: identify an argument (not merely a topic) from a required reading (with direct quotations
and page numbers) and discuss it in relation to the designated film of the day
• Focus: your ability to articulate someone else’ argument and state your interpretation of a film in
relation to that argument; mere factual information or plot summary won’t count as argument
• Grading: out of 10 points for each commentary, 3 for identification of an argument and logical
transition, 3 points for film discussion focused on details, and 4 for writing (grammar, expression,
coherence, style)