Monday, November 30, 2015

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)

Sunday, November 22, 2015

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

Thursday, November 19, 2015

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


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.



Saturday, November 14, 2015

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

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)   

Sunday, November 8, 2015

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





Sunday, November 1, 2015

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