Weekly Agenda 10.13-10.17

The School for Scandal

MONDAY and TUESDAY
Practice poetry quiz answers
Review Prologue
Comedy of Manners
-Restoration
Status Improvisation
Review Act 1: plot structure, how does it satisfy comedy of manners, glossary, clarify.

Poetry Quiz (SAVE, more practice on FRIDAY)
HW Journal #7: Independent Reading Format (see packet);
AND, #8: Glossary Entry using evidence from School on irony, epigram, or antithesis
AND, read Act 2 for Wednesday: summary, vocabulary and annotate

WEDNESDAY
Share out glossary evidence and analysis.
Dramatic Reading
-characterization
-character foils
-plot clarity
HW Prepare to bring in new quotations/elements to share from outside reading book;
AND, read Act 3 for Monday (Reading Quiz)

THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Looking at Restoration Comedy through the lens of social prescription; is marriage an institution which uplifts society during the Restoration period, is it now?
The definition of comedy and the background of the Restoration Comedy helps to explain the themes that run throughout these plays. One of the major themes is marriage and the game of love. However, if marriage is a mirror of society, the couples in the plays show something very dark and sinister about order. Many critiques of marriage that we see in the play are devastating, but the game of love is not much more hopeful. Although the endings are happy and the man invariably gets the woman (or at least that is the implication), we see marriages without love and love affairs that are rebellious breaks with tradition.
http://classiclit.about.com/cs/articles/a/aa_restoration.htm
Dramatic Reading-2.2 parlor gossip
Accessing theme, finding evidence from Act 2 to support theme.
More poetry practice: Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening:" Close-Reading Graphic Organizer
HW For MONDAY, complete TPS-FAST technique as marginalia on poem, AND, complete graphic organizer on Auden's poem, THEN take practice multiple choice questions.  
AND, read Act III for MONDAY; expect a short reading quiz: 
AND, #8, glossary entry, should be ready to share out as well




Next: Continue to read independent book; And, finalize modern version of Act 2 to share for Monday.  
Read ACTs IV and V for October 27th.
Share out independent reading WED, OCT 22nd.

Get Pygmalion  and read.