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




Sunday, October 25, 2015

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

Sunday, October 18, 2015

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




Monday, October 12, 2015

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

Sunday, October 4, 2015

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).

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Weekly Agenda 9.28-10.2

Poetry: Sound and Sense

MONDAY-TUESDAY
Review S&S: "Pathedy of Manners"

Add to #6: "Cross" on p49-Q1, and TPS-FAST-use language from your glossary to describe figurative language and theme.
"One Art" on p52-53, Q1,3 (R,R,R)-trace patterns, identify -villanelle

HW Final part of #: an original poem
LAST part of #6: Assignment: write an original poem.  Incorporate multiple words with different connotative and/or denotative meanings.  Minimum two stanzas, identifiable rhyme scheme, each line should be approximately the same amount of syllables, employ imagery....  Credit for completion

WEDNESDAY
Review Original Poem
-Quaker Share for credit

Sound and Sense, pp54, 59
Define imagery

Read " I felt a funeral in my brain" on p 59, and answer question #1; read "The Forge" on pp59-60, answer questions #2,3.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY
Imagery in poetry: Hayden poem "Those Winter Sundays"
-reveal pattern, answer Q2

Read pages 67-87 and take notes on figurative language: simile, metaphor, apostrophe, and metonymy

Choose a poem on p66, either 1, 9, or 11.  TPS-FAST.   Explain it to a neighbor.  Share out.

HW Make sure your journals are ready to go for FRIDAY, please.  Read, The School for Scandal "A Portrait" and "Prologue"
-annotate the poems for everything/anything
-paraphrase: what is the rhyme scheme, tone, puns, etc?




Sunday, September 20, 2015

Weekly Agenda 9.21-9.25

INTRODUCTION to POETRY

Monday-Tuesday
Review Reading Journal #4

Candide: Practice Writing Conclusion to full essay

Poetry
pp4-5: "The Eagle" by Tennyson -impressions
TECHNIQUES: TPS-FAST; RRR;
-poetry glossary of terms

"Love Poem"
-sound
HW READING Journal Entry #5: Independent Reading Book (Letters)
AND, optional draft for editing on Thursday

WEDNESDAY
School Holiday

Thursday-Friday
CANDIDE: Peer Editing

Sound and Sense
pp41-53
Define denotation and connotation; pp42-44
Read "Pathedy of Manners"
-Questions #1,2,3
-pp46-47: complete exercises 1-6 -share out

READING JOURNAL #6: Read "Cross" on p49, record in Journal: answer question #1, and complete TPS-FAST
-use language form your glossary to describe figurative language and theme.
-read "One Art" on pp52-53, answer questions #1,3
-,RR: read, react, reveal
HW practice new reading technique RRR: use a high lighter while you read to trace patters, identify 2-3 patterns, and connect them to poem's meanings.

NEXT: LAST part of #6: Assignment: write an original poem.  Incorporate multiple words with different connotative and/or denotative meanings.  Minimum two stanzas, identifiable rhyme scheme, each line should be approximately the same amount of syllables, employ imagery....  Credit for completion