Tuesday, January 31, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 34

Collect homework (or pink sheet): symbolism chart (20 items)

WARMUP: Using your book, list all the events that happened in the last half-hour of Doodle’s life (beginning on page 342 “As soon as I had finished eating…” until the end of the story)

Discussed the ending of “The Scarlet Ibis” – what happened? Is it the narrator’s fault?

·         How specifically did Doodle die?

o   What do we know for sure?

·         How do we know he didn’t die by lightning? A fallen tree?

·         Is his death the narrator’s fault?

1. In groups, we listed 20 events total that happened in the story that would help convict both Doodle’s brother and his parents of a guilty of murder verdict (10 each)
2. After reviewing our “guilty verdict” points and in our same groups, we listed 20 events that happened in the story that would help convict both Doodle’s brother and his parents of a NOT GUILTY of murder verdict (10 events for each)

(Was it easier to prove them guilty or not guilty?)

ENGLISH homework:

Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 4: elude, fallow, blight…)

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PLAYWRITING – Day 34

Using Knott’s introduction, we drew a picture of the stage for Dial M for Murder.

Noted how different the interpretations were and why. Discuss the importance of getting the actors on the set in order to see if the set pieces would work with the script or if they would need to be altered in any way.

Read stage script Act I, Scene 1 of Dial M for Murder (by Frederick Knott, 1953)

PLAYWRITING homework:

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