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