Monday, February 4, 2013

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 40  

• Look up definitions for “dramatic irony” and “foreshadowing” (see page 1245 and 1247 in textbook) and write them into your notes.
• Working a table-group and using both sides of your dry-erase board, complete both sides of the handout on your tables…as a group. Mark one side of your board “dramatic irony” and the other “foreshadowing”

Read all of Act 5.

Signup for final R&J projects.

ENGLISH homework:

Work on Romeo & Juliet projects (including 10-line memorization piece) – DUE Friday, February 15, – focus on the following rubric:

·         The story = 20 points (thorough, appropriate interpretation of important story elements, proper length)

·         Creativity = 10 points (ideas are unique and enjoyable)

·         Effort = 10 points (project is thoughtful and well-prepared; shows considerable effort; looks complete)

·         Recital = 10 points (TYPED COPY and considerable effort shown in memorization of 10 lines of Romeo & Juliet)

·         You may NOT memorize from these 2 speeches: “Two households…” or “But soft, what light…”

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PLAYWRITING – Day 40

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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