Tuesday, December 4, 2012

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 6 

TO BE COLLECTED: Find your Romeo & Juliet Webquest (from yesterday). Read over your answers and then on the back side of the Webquest, answer the following:

1. Using your answers as your proof, what conclusions can you make about the Elizabethans? (list at least 3)
2. List what the Webquest doesn’t say. In other words, what has been left out? (list at least 3)
3. Find a trouble spot (an area you do not understand). Generate questions around it. (list as many as you can)
4. Complete the following: This Webquest reminds me of ________________because _________________________________.
5. Create a t-chart. On the left side, write down one thing you learned from this activity. On the right side, write a reflection on why learning that piece of information might be of value to you in your life  (respond in a paragraph)

As we review the answers to yesterday’s Webquest, revise your answers. Collect. 

·         Pun = a form of wordplay that occurs when two words pronounced and spelled somewhat the same contain different meanings

Discussed PUNS

·         Began reading and discussing Romeo & Juliet Act 1.1.1 - 60 (Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1 – 60 - pgs. 807 – 810 in Literature book - also see No Fear Shakespeare edition) 

ENGLISH homework:  

Bring your Literature book (the purple one) every day.

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 7

1. Collect 2-page biographical sketch.
2. In your notebook, explain what characteristics you think are necessary to make up a “good” character.
3. Critique scripts from yesterday
4. Discuss yesterday’s classwork: biographical sketches – what did you notice? Learn?
5. Watch video excerpt from The Odd Couple (Neil Simon) – showing “character.”
6. Read 10 scripts

PLAYWRITING homework:

None.