Weekly Agenda 12.1-12.5

HAMLET

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY
Parody Quaker Share
-present? perform!

Finish up Hamlet
-review acts
-watch clips

HW Read one or more of the sub-headings in a "Modern Perspective" on #307, your choice.  
AND, JOURNAL #12: write a thoughtful book review -nytimes style- of one of your independent reading books, due FRIDAY.
AND, JOURNAL #13: choose two paragraphs from your CANDIDE essays to rewrite.
AND, Read Death of a Salesman  by MONDAY;

THURSDAY
JOURNAL #14: TIMED WRITING HAMLET

FRIDAY

Turn in completed Study Guides for credit.

Review, translate, and analyze "Key Phrases and Lines" on page 339.

Share excerpts from your book review.

HW Read Death of a Salesman by MONDAY

Weekly Agenda 11.17-11.21

HAMLET/ Poetry

MONDAY
Poetry Terms Quiz
Act 2 Study Guide

TUESDAY
Review Act 2
Act 3 Study Guide
Independent Reading Check in
HW Reading Journals due tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY
Poetry Timed Writing
-tps-fast/RRR
-prompt
-analysis
-practice
HW Take home practice timed writing, due Thursday.

THURSDAY
Review practice poem --in class poem timed writing tomorrow

Branagh's Hamlet
-excerpts, ACTs 1-3

Candide essay review
-constructing a thesis
-the importance of direct evidence
HW Read ACT 4 for MONDAY

FRIDAY
Poetry Timed Writing

NEXT
MON-WED
-review acts 3-4
-dramatic reading
-analysis of character: Ophelia
-more excerpts
--some silliness?
HW finish play for MONDAY; book review of independent reading;  Hamlet -topics of interest: Poetry timed writing, in review.  

Weekly Agenda 11.10, 11.12-11.14

HAMLET

MONDAY
Prepare to share facts from your Critical Annotation

Shakespeare Graphic Organizer for Life and Times notes:

-present and plug in information from your source

-brief background on life and times: religion, fairies and witches, Chain of Being, life and death

--Elizabethan Era/Shakespeare bio: historical events, monarchy, theater

HW for TUESDAY, read ACT II in Hamlet;

WEDNESDAY

Turn in Critical Annotation

Finish Shakespeare Bio 

Review ACT 1

random check in regarding Ind. read

THURSDAY

Review ACTs 1 &2

-characterization

-language

-plot

-Poetry terms to review

HW Journals due next week

FRIDAY

Play excerpts from ACT 1 (Branagh, if I can order it in time); discuss play versus film 

Next Week: Poetry Concept Quiz; collect journals; practice Poetry Timed Writing; Poetry Timed Writing; cont' Hamlet

Critical Annotation due MONDAY, Nov 10th

HW: Prepping for Hamlet: complete a critical annotation on Shakespeare's life or times, typed in MLA format for MONDAY. See this sample to assist you (but this website, the Shakespeare Resource Center, is off-limits! Choose another site). 
AND, read ACT I in HAMLET
Next week: Hamlet and timed essay on poetry!

Reading Journal Entries GP1, GP2

GP1
#  Title                               Points
1  Everyday Format           5
2  Bible Questions              5
3  Synthesis AP Prompt      10
4  Independent Reading      5
5  Independent Reading      5
6.1,2  Candide                  10  
                                         40
GP2
7  Independent Reading      5
8  School Glossary             5
9  School Modern Act 2    10
10 Independent Reading     5
11 Independent Reading     5
EC Original Sonnet             5
(extra credit: either Petrarchan or Elizabethan)

Poetry Workbook
Original Poem                    10
Up-to Date Notes              5    
                                          45

Weekly Agenda 11.3-11.7

More Poetry...and Some Tragedy

MONDAY

Return Pygmalion and Get Oedipus Rex and Hamlet

Sonnets and Villanelles

-Presentation on structure, meter, rhyme scheme,etc.

HW Begin reading Oedipus Rex

TUESDAY 

More fixed form

-practice marking up poems

-answer questions

HW Continue reading Oedipus Rex  

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY

Standard Deviants Video clips - Aristotle and Tragedy

Excerpts from The Poetics

Applying The Poetics to Oedipus Rex

"Is it really a tragedy?"

-activity

Quickly review requirements for a Critical Annotation

HW Finish Oedipus Rex; Bring in Critical Annotation on a source with background on Shakespeare's life and times.

FRIDAY

Oedipus Rex Reading Quiz 

Shakespeare Graphic Organizer for Life and Times notes:

-present and plug in information from your source

-brief background on life and times: religion, fairies and witches, Chain of Being, life and death

--Elizabethan Era/Shakespeare bio: historical events, monarchy, theater

HW Begin Reading Hamlet