Thursday, April 12, 2012

ENGLISH – 3^rd trimester – Day 22

Number a paper 1 – 30. Clear your desk for today’s test (Romeo & Juliet Act 1 test - 30 questions)

Draw a SMALL PICTURE at the top of a paper of the following Shakespearean (extended) metaphor from Romeo and Juliet Act 2.2:

 

ROMEO
 25                                                                   She speaks!
 26   O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
 27   As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
 28   As is a winged messenger of heaven
 29   Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
 30   Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
 31   When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds
 32   And sails upon the bosom of the air.

IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT (TO BE COLLECTED)

Wrote our own extended metaphors (steps 1, 4)

Step 1:

Battlefield Rainstorm Carnival Dance

Minefield Symphony 10 speed bike Circus

BATTLEFIELD

(brainstorm everything we associate with a battlefield)

Fighting, guns, bullets, grenades, dead people, smells of rotting meat, explosions, mud, screaming, medics, radiation, disease, dirty men, construction, loud, chaos, explosives, love,

STEP 2: How is a ___(battlefield)________ like a ________carnival_______________?

It is crazy, creepy people, screaming, game you can’t win, people with masks, dirty men at both, both are loud, tattoos, face paint, disease, smells like cigarettes,

STEP 3:  ABSTRACT NOUNS: What are they? Love, hate, emotion, intelligence, gratification,

How is a battlefield like ________________________?

STEP 4: Your turn…You choose 1 from first list, 1 abstract (love, happiness, justice, respect, truth, life)

How is ____(your choice)_________ like _____(abstract)______?

After answering this question, write a PARAGRAPH explaining the metaphor. (COLLECTED)

Assembled famous soliloquy from Act 2 with 2 other partners (scatterbrained soliloquy activity) – check pgs. 845 - 846 for answers

ENGLISH homework:

None