Weekly Agenda 12.7-12.11

Shakespeare: HAMLET MONDAY WATCH (Branagh) End Comments: Hamlet TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY Parody Quaker Share TTHURSDAY-FRIDAY, MONDAY Miller’s A Death of a Salesman Plot Structures TERMS Tragic Characters/characterization: temporary, measuring, subordination, volatility, exploitation, conquest, superlatives TROPES: father/son, broken pedestal, fatal flaw, anachronic order, deconstruction, mimesis, catharsis, staging (4th wall-voyeurism) WATCH: Dustin Hoffman Monologues due Finals Week: December 16

Hamlet Timed Writing Prompt

Link: Hamlet Essay Prompt

Reading Journal #13

Weekly Agenda 11/30-12/4

Shakespeare: HAMLET

MONDAY-TUESDAY

ACT 4: What has Hamlet done; what has he become?

-equivocation; “The body is…”

Parody Quaker Share

Reading Journal #92: Write a thoughtful book review -nytimes style- of your independent reading book.  

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY (3Qs)

ACT 4: -delay and inaction

-Claudius, foe

What becomes of a sour “state?”

-Laertes, character foil

-Ophelia, Imagery (flowers, innocence)

-father, brother, lover (too many ?)

FRIDAY

Pages 307, 339

Reading Journal #93: Timed Writing Hamlet

Terms: Metonymy, synecdoche,

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

MONOLOGUE ASSIGNMENT

Act 4 for Thursday, Dec 3rd; Act 5 for Monday, Dec 7th.    

**JOURNAL DUE DECEMBER 4TH-DECEMBER 9TH (Don’t Forget 50 Vocabulary Words)

November 23rd*, 24th, 25th

Shakespeare: HAMLET

MONDAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY

Poetry Terms Quiz

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

ACT 2: Ophelia

-dramatic reading

BEGIN-ACT 3: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Soliloquy

-the set up (Ophelia/Polonius)

-theater: puns and more puns

-action and inaction

-mother and son

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

HW Parody due December 1st

Act 3 for MONDAY, Nov 30th; Act 4 for Thursday, Dec 3rd; Act 5 for Monday, Dec 7th.       

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Poetry Concepts Quiz Word Bank and Sample Answer

WORD BANK

slant rhyme/near rhyme sonnet refrain assonance villanelle lyric line

iambic consonance haiku narrative onomatopoeia sestina feet meter limerick feminine rhyme free verse masculine rhyme light verse rhyme

alliteration epic enjambment anapestic ode caesura internal rhyme quatrain

heroic couplet stress cacophony epigram rhythm euphony stanza

trochaic sibilance turn/volta metonymy repetition denotation connotation diction jargon paradox synecdoche octave tercet

antithesis personification metaphor simile apostrophe allegory sestet appositive ambiguity Petrarch Shakespeare fixed form

Directions: Use terms from the word bank to create Poetry Concepts.  Fill in all five rows with at least four terms, then explain the concept.  See Example. 4pts each

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CONCEPT TERMS CONCEPT EXPLANATION

simile, metaphor, metonymy, personification	These terms are related to figurative language.  Figurative language allows an author to depart from literal meaning and convey ideas in a manner that lend emphasis to the main ideas of a body of work.

Weekly Agenda 11.16-11.20

LINK: 5 Week Agenda

November 16th-20th

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex MONDAY-TUESDAY (Standard Deviants Video Clips: “Aristotle and Tragedy”) Review “Oedipus Rex” through Scene II Excerpts from “The Poetics” -apply to Oedipus Rex -”Is it really a tragedy” activity Reciprocal Reading -predict, read -INDIVIDUAL -summarize, question, clarify -GROUP Review Critical Annotation Format LINK: Shakespeare Critical Annotation Shakespeare: Hamlet WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY-FRIDAY BACKGROUND Elizabethan England -chain of being -beliefs, superstitions -language Shakespeare Life and Times -theater and performance -biography Hamlet, Act I -characterization --archetypes --language WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

Critical Annotation due Thursday, November 19th Poetry Terms Quiz, Nov 23rd READING SCHEDULE Read Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” for TUESDAY, November 17th Read Hamlet Act 1 for for THURSDAY; Nov. 19th Act 2 for MONDAY; Nov. 23rd Act 3 for MONDAY, Nov 30th;  Act 4 for THURSDAY, Dec 3rd;  Act 5 for MONDAY, Dec 7th.     **JOURNAL DUE DECEMBER 4TH-DECEMBER 9TH (Don’t Forget 50 Vocabulary Words)

Weekly Agenda 11.9-11.13

Pygmalion

• 9. Reading Journal Entry: Independent Book 5pts

MONDAY-TUESDAY
Review Acts 3-5

Work on Culminating Projects:

LINK: Poems: Analyze 2-3 of the provided poems and be prepared to share the different interpretations of the myth.  Consider complete TPS-FAST, or RRR, on your chosen poems so to be thorough.  Complete all work in your reading journal, #10 -due THURSDAY

Reader's Response: Typed, MLA, hard-copy, 1-2 pages.  Due FRIDAY.

Organizational strategies, original voice, focused thesis, and apt direct references to text are necessary to a good response.
LINK: Stevens' Reader's Response sample (though this is for a short story, which is a little different)

Possible responses:

A.  Choose a minor character from the play and analyze his/her role.  Examples include:

• Mrs. Pearce
• Clara
• Colonel Pickering
• Alfred Doolittle

B.  Choose a symbol, pattern, or theme and trace its significance throughout the play or scene.  Examples include: 

• Middle Class Morality
• Male Mastery
• Narcissism
• Artist's lack of control over their subjects
• Victorian class system

Signet Classics Edition Guid to Pygmalion

WEDNESDAY

VETERAN's DAY

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Review Approach to Poems

Shaw's Ending

Review Reader's Response

More My Fair Lady??

Return Pygmalion,

Get HAMLET

HW READ ACT 1 for MONDAY

Weekly Agenda 11.2-11.6

Pygmalion
-reading schedule-
ACT I due Tuesday
Act II due Wednesday
Act III due Thursday
-reading quiz
Act IV and V due FRIDAY
-grading discussion

MONDAY-FRIDAY
-get play-

Share approach to  Auden poem, "If I Could Tell You"
-prompt/analysis
-rubric

Pygmalion
Exposition/Rising-characterization, setting, conflict

Themes: Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty; feminism; class, language, independence

Journal #9: Letters Format Reading Journal Entry

Clips from My Fair lady

Weekly Agenda 10.26-10.30

The School for Scandal

MONDAY-TUESDAY
Watch: "the screen scene"
Review ACT V and epilogue

Vocabulary List

Thesis Statement Assignment
HW  Prepare for "Full-Calendar" Appointment Discussion
-worksheet

WEDNESDAY
"Full-Calendar"
HW Pygmalion?

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Auden "As I Walk Out One Evening"
-multiple choice
-tps-fast
HW Journal Entry #8: Timed Writing Practice

Weekly Agenda 10.19-10.23

The School for Scandal

MONDAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Finish Rewrites, begin performances.

Vocabulary share, add to journals.

HW Journal Entry #7: Independent Reading (Period 4, prepare to share WEDNESDAY);
AND, Read ACT IV for TUESDAY

Watch and review ACT III
-role of disguise in theater (review Quiz)
-3.3 Toby's song
-Charles' character flaw

Glossary: aside, 
HW ACT IV Collect and Connect, due THURSDAY

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Review T-Graph
-Sir Oliver's Role
-Lady T. and Sir J.
--what is his argument, is it solid?
The Screen Scene
-dramatic reading
-is Sir J a "villain"
--in notes, sketch as if you were about to shoot the film, what essential images and language should be present on the story-boards

Watch Clips
HW Read ACT V and Epilogue: generate a thesis statement on the function of scandal in society, connect to role of marriage, analyze Sheridan's message

NEXT
Pygmalion

POETRY: 
AUDEN's  "As I walked out one Evening"
-close-reading graphic
-poetry terms quiz

Weekly Agenda 10.12-10.16

The School for Scandal

MONDAY
Act II T-Graph

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Review T-Graph

Rewrite Act II, Scene 2
-parlor gossip

Act III Quiz
HW Read ACT IV for Thursday

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Clips from the play

Game: Passing Pshaw

Rewrite Group Work
HW Performance MONDAY

Weekly Agenda 10.5-10.9

The School for Scandal

Reading Schedule

One act every 2-3 days.

Act 1 due Tuesday, Oct 6th

Act 2 due Thursday, Oct 8th

Act 3 due Tuesday, Oct 13th (reading QUIZ)

Act 4 due Thursday, Oct 15th

Act 5 due Tuesday, Oct 20th

MONDAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY
Portrait/Prologue
-notes-analysis

Comedy of Manners
-define
-in the Restoration period
--clips

Status Improvisation
HW Read Act 1 for TUESDAY

Play Structure Graphic

Act 1: Review Character, motives, plot; match
-dramatic reading
HW Read Act 2 for THURSDAY

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
2004 M/C practice "Nows and Laters" #1-11
-Read silently and circle best answer (20 minutes)
--work with a partner, writing a short justification for every answer.

Review Act 2: If Restoration comedy
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
-identify themes
HW Read Act 3 for Tuesday (Reading Quiz); for Tuesday, complete Graphic Organizer T-Graph (you will have time to work on it on Monday).