Thursday, February 2, 2012

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 36

Check homework: completed backside of vocabulary sheet

TEST REVIEW:

1. Review terms: uneasiness, exhilaration, amusement
1. find an example of each in the story – write it out, word for word
2. Read page 338 – “go-to-sleep” flower…discuss vocabulary
3. Explain the vocabulary words in each of the following quotations:
1. “…gloriously iridescent vortex,” (pg. 338),
2. “With success so imminent…” (pg. 337)
3. “an invalid brother…” (pg. 334)
4. What 3 words would you use to describe Doodle’s brother while he was teaching Doodle to walk?
5. In "The Scarlet Ibis," Hurst (the author) uses natural elements of the setting to comment on the action of the story and the characters. These include plants, birds, insects, and weather phenomena. Make a list of 10 of these natural elements and write a paragraph on ONE of them, explaining how it relates to the action of the story or the characters themselves.
6. Write down BRIEF definitions for the following literary terms:
1. foreshadowing (pg. 1 on handout)
2. conflict (pg. 1)
3. theme (page 3)
4. allusion, (pg. 3)
5. metaphor, (pg. 4)
6. simile, (pg. 4)
7. symbolism, (pg. 4)
8. irony, (pg. 4)
9. oxymoron, (pg. 5)
10. juxtaposition, (dictionary)
11. antipathy, (dictionary)
12. apathetic (dictionary)
7. Using page 340 as a resource, figure out
1. About what year (pg. 340)
2. WHERE did this story take place?
8. There is an allusion on page 340 in the paragraph that begins, “It was Saturday noon…” – Read the whole paragraph and name the children’s story that is being alluded to.

ENGLISH homework:

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

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PLAYWRITING – Day 36

We each wrote out a list of 22 actions from the 22 page script…COLLECTED

Watched 30 minutes of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder film.

PLAYWRITING homework:

(due Friday):

1.      Choose a script. Do NOT WRITE ON THE SCRIPT.

2.      Write out every line of dialogue on the first 2 pages.

3.      Write a paragraph that explains what happened BEFORE the first line of dialogue is spoken.

4.      For every line spoken (on your 2 pages) explain what physically happens to FORCE THE CHARACTER SAY EACH LINE.

1. You may not include ANY textual or verbal lines of dialogue as reasons to speak. (i.e. because he asked her/him about it)
2. Instead, you must find something outside the lines as their motivation to speak.

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