Weekly Agenda 12.12-12.16; 12.19

Miller: The Death of a Salesman

MONDAY

Watch the end of Hamlet

Read Miller’s article “Tragedy and the Common Man”

-shared annotations

-swap responses

HW Journals (don’t forget 50 vocabulary words) due MONDAY.  Upload Hamlet essay to turnitin.com; Read ACT II for Thursday.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY

Plot Structures

TERMS

Tragic Characters/characterization: temporary, measuring, subordination, volatility, exploitation, conquest, superlatives

TROPES: father/son, broken pedestal, fatal flaw, anachronic order, deconstruction, mimesis, recognition, reversal, catharsis, staging (4th wall-voyeurism)

THURSDAY-FRIDAY-MONDAY

Finish discussing and watching parts of Miller’s play

Choose and practice Monologue performance.

FINAL: Tuesday, December 20th

Weekly Agenda 12.5-12.9

H A M L E T

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review ACT 3 through action versus inaction; how does the evidence connect to major conflicts: reason and passion;

order and chaos;

revealing and concealing;

honesty and deception

WATCH Branagh in ACT 3: what do you notice about staging and interpretation of character?

Present Parody

HW Read ACT 4 for THURSDAY; ACT 5 for FRIDAY.  FInish review in #10.

WEDNESDAY

Review #11

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Review Acts 4-5

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

-equivocation; “The body is…”

-delay and inaction

-Claudius, foe

What becomes of a sour “state?”

-Laertes, character foil

-Ophelia, Imagery (flowers, innocence)

-father, brother, lover (too many ?)

ACT 5: The duel; Fortinbras

Consider: Pages 307, 339

HW Journal #12: New York Style Review

ESSAY: HAMLET-Choose one prompt and respond in a short essay, prepare to share; Begin reading Death of a Salesman, ACT 1 for TUESDAY.

Weekly Agenda 11.28-12.2

H A M L E T

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review M/C

Watch Act 1

Review Act 2

-Ophelia-dramatic reading

-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

HW Read ACT 3 for FRIDAY-Entry #10:Acts 3-5 review;

#11:Independent Reading, next 60 pp, due MONDAY.

WEDNESDAY

Watch Act 2

THURSDAY

Poetry Timed Writing

FRIDAY

Review Act 3

-Soliloquy

-”the set up”

-”play”

-action and inaction

-mother and son

HW Add to #10, and #11

Next: Parody Assignment

Weekly Agenda 11.21-11.23 Thanksgiving

H A M L E T

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY

Review #9

-Shakespeare style (see text)

--diction

--inversion

--delay or interruption

--pun/word play

--implied stage action

Key Quotations

Act 5 structure

ACT 2, Scene 2: Ophelia/Polonius

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)

HW FINISH reading ACT 2 for MONDAY, and complete review questions --add to #9.

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Weekly Agenda 11.14-11.18

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Shakespeare: Hamlet

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Get Books: Oedipus Cycle, Hamlet, Death of a Salesman

(Standard Deviants Video Clips: “Aristotle and Tragedy”)

Read excerpts from “The Poetics”

-apply to Oedipus Rex

-”Is it really a tragedy” activity

Reciprocal Reading
-predict, read -INDIVIDUAL

-summarize, question, clarify -GROUP

HW for WEDNESDAY, read Oedipus Rex, create 3-level questions.

WEDNESDAY

Review Oedipus Rex

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

BACKGROUND

Elizabethan England

-chain of being

-beliefs, superstitions

-language

Shakespeare Life and Times

-theater and performance

-biography

#8: Virginia Woolf's "Shakespeare's Sister"

HW Read Hamlet, ACT 1 for FRIDAY

SAVE for MONDAY

Hamlet, Act I

-characterization

--archetypes

--language

WATCH (Gibson, Branagh, Hawke)
HW for MONDAY: Read Hamlet, ACT 2, Scene 2 for MONDAY; Complete Journal #9 Worksheet Review Qs

Weekly Agenda 11.7-11.10

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Share approach to  Auden poem, "If I Could Tell You"

-prompt/analysis

-rubric

-thesis (essay outline)

Act III: My Fair Lady: Ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHTVFWg0Ouw

Review Act IV

Model 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 (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

Due to turnitin.com by MONDAY, November 14th, 2016, and in hand (hard copy) Tuesday, Nov 15th, 2016.

WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY

Shaw's Ending

Return Pygmalion,

→ Get Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Death of A Salesman

HW READ Oedipus Rex for Wednesday; Reader’s Response due MONDAY PM

Weekly Agenda 10.31-11.4

Pygmalion

-reading schedule-

ACT II due Tuesday

Act III due Wednesday

Act IV due Thursday

-reading quiz

Act V due FRIDAY

-Graded Discussion-

Movie: Opening Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhninL_G3Fg

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review Auden "As I Walked Out One Evening"
-m/c

Consider Fine Art Interpretation

-OPTIC analysis

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

HW DUE TUESDAY-Journal #7: POEM PROMPT

- Share approach to  Auden poem, "If I Could Tell You"

-prompt/analysis

-rubric
-thesis (essay outline)

WEDNESDAY-POETRY TERMS QUIZ

THURSDAY-FRIDAY-MONDAY

Discuss Acts III and IV-possible quiz

Watch Scenes

NEXT WEEK

Reader’s Response

Graded Discussion

Weekly Agenda 10.24-10.28

The School for Scandal/Pygmalion

MONDAY

Get Pygmalion

Review ACT V and epilogue

Assign Calendar appointments

HW  Prepare for "Full-Calendar" Appointment Discussion

TUESDAY

Full-Calendar!  Turn in culminating discussion worksheet and Acts 1,2, and 4 T-graphs.

HW-for FRIDAY-read Pygmalion Preface, and Act One: Pick out 2-3 lines that indicate Shaw’s attempt at realism.

TEST: Poetry quiz on MONDAY

WEDNESDAY

Pygmalion Introduction

-realism, myth, poetry

THURSDAY

Auden "As I Walk Out One Evening"

-multiple choice

-tps-fast

-close-reading graphic

-poetry terms quiz

HW Journal Entry #8: Timed Writing Practice

FRIDAY

Pygmalion Review

-share elements of realism from play.

Review characters and examine roles

-trace symbols

HW Read ACT 2 for TUESDAY, Nov 1st

Weekly Agenda 10.17-10.21

The School for Scandal

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Begin performances.

ACT 3 Quiz

Watch and review ACT III

-role of disguise in theater (review Quiz)

-3.3 Toby's song

-Charles' character flaw

Glossary: aside,

HW Read ACT IV for Thursday: Act 5 for FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY

Share #6, Independent Reading

-prepare to turn in journals for FRIDAY

THURSDAY

SSR

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"

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

Weekly Agenda 10.10-10.14

The School for Scandal

MONDAY-TUESDAY

ACT 1: Review Character, motives, plot; match

-dramatic reading

Review ACT 2: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?

Dramatic Reading 2.2: parlor gossip

-identify themes

Work in small groups to rewrite ACT 2: Parlor Scene with modern characters for a modern audience.

HW Read ACT 3 for THURSDAY

WEDNESDAY

HOLIDAY

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Present/Perform scenes

HW Journal Entry #6: Independent Reading pp30-70, due next Wednesday.

Watch and review ACT III

-role of disguise in theater (review Quiz)

-3.3 Toby's song

-Charles' character flaw

Glossary: aside,

HW READ ACT 4 for Friday, Acts 1-4 T-Graphs.  

READ Act 5 for MONDAY.