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

Weekly Agenda 10.27-10.31

The School for Scandal

MONDAY
House Principal Presentation/Survey
HW Per our agreement, you have finished The School for Scandal  and will finish Pygmalion for THURSDAY.

TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
Review Act 4
-finish dramatic reading of "the screen scene"
-effect of the aside, other examples
Finish discussing key quotations from "Collect and Connect" handout
-is Sir J a villain?

Review Act 5 and epilogue
-function of scandal in society; Sheridan's message, the purpose of his satire?
>>Information on Graded Seminar Discussion Assignment: see essential questions, tips, prep work, criteria
WATCH scenes from play
HW FINISH Pygmalion! Prep for graded Discussion on FRIDAY

THURSDAY and FRIDAY
Debrief on role of gossip in society

Graded Discussion

Connect Back to Poem "Pathedy of Manners"
HW Journal #10: Independent Reading; 
AND, poetry prompt practice.

NEXT
Culminating AP Poetry Response Essay
Finally, another independent reading share

Weekly Agenda 10.20-10.24

The School for Scandal

MONDAY and TUESDAY
Review Auden poem, graphic organizer, 
-multiple choice answers
Review Glossary
Reading Quiz
Review Act 2: Journal #9: modernize scene

Modernize the story

1. In small groups, look at Act 2, Scene 2, lines 1 – 76

(where Lady Teazle is entertaining the scandal school

to tea and cards).

2. Discuss what is happening in this scene.

3. What conflicts arise in this scene?

4. Discuss the characters’ personalities.

5. During the scene; what does each of them want and

how do they try to get what they want?

6. Now devise your own modern version of this scene

which incorporates all of the elements above of the original story.

PRESENT modern version with explanations as to why you chose to depict certain characters or certain language in a particular way.

HW READ ACT IV for WEDNESDAY; 

AND, plan on sharing out an excerpt from Independent Reading

WEDNESDAY

GET Pygmalion

Connect back to poem "Pathedy of Manners"

Review ACT III

3.1-the accusations between the Teazles

3.2-reviewing the effect of the aside on an audience

3.3-Sir Toby's song; the function/effect of disguise in theater-analyze nature of irony.

    -the extended metaphor: "room full of ancestors"

    -Charles' real fault/foibles

Review Vocabulary-to-Know

THURSDAY

Watch PLAY

ACT IV Collect and Connect

FRIDAY

Share out excerpts from Independent Reading Book

Devices from ACT IV; Sir Oliver's Role; Lady T and Sir J, explain his argument to her, what does he want her to do?  Why?

The Screen Scene-Dramatic Reading :4.3. 186-404

-is Sir J a "villain"

-sketch out a story board comic strip with essential language-present on MONDAY

HW Story Board Sketch; AND, more poetry; AND, Read ACT V and epilogue

NEXT 

POETRY

Analytical statement/thesis on the function of Scandal in society; connect to role of marriage; and, analyze Sheridan's message in the end.

Pygmalion

Role of Gossip: NY TIMES article

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.