Real Time Notes for Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile Notes

·         Frist day of school Katherine Watson was intimidated by the students and pretty overwhelmed by their knowledge on Art History

·         School administration wasn’t very supportive of Ms. Watson’s  teaching plans and recommended that she use better discipline with her next class

·         Betty is super bitching and untrustworthy, her mother is just as rude and aggressive

·         Due to Betty’s untrustworthiness, she wrote an article about  the nurse, Amanda for giving contraceptives to students and Amanda ends up getting fired

·         Joan (a student of Ms. Watson) is thinking about Pre-Law and talking about wanting to go to Yale, Ms. Watson hands her an application for Yale during class, hoping to persuade her to apply

·         The class goes on a field trip to see a new art piece and to consider it as art

·         During winter quarter Katherine is told to be less modern art and more conservative

·         Joan ended up applying to Yale and got early accepted

·         Betty ends up getting married, and it seems not to be all that she expected

·         Giselle and Bill, the male professor has had an affair before and seem to still have feelings for each other

·         Paul shows up to surprise Katherine for Christmas and proposes to her, Katherine isn’t happy about it and doesn’t want to get married

·         Betty misses class and Ms. Watson informs her to be more attentive, Betty insist that is she is failed there will be consequences

·         Katherine gets invited to an AR meeting, which is a secret society. Where they get to ask her any questions they want

·         Betty ends up writing a newspaper article about Katherine saying that she is against marriage and publicly attacks her

·         Bill and Katherine end up sleeping together and Katherine makes sure he know that it is nothing more than just sex and insist that he sleeps with no students while they are together

·         Joan ends up eloping and not going to Yale

·         The school asks Ms. Watson to return for the next year, with certain expectations from her