Thursday, February 21, 2013

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 50 

HOMEROOM – pre-ID – 90 minutes – all classes shortened 

Finish last speeches and projects? 

1. Pick up your graded projects (on counter)
2. Pick up Exam Review Sheet (on center table)
3. Open book to 1046
4. Take out your questions from the first several stories…

Add the following definitions to your exam review guide:

·         paraphrase (pg. 1259) – same message, different words

·         summary – shortened version of the original work’s main points

·         critique – a judgment or review; your opinion about a work

·         personal response – how it relates to your life; all about YOU

·         Tragic hero (pg. 754, 1252) – a person of great ability who comes to grief because of a flaw within his character

·         Epic heroes (pgs. 1012, 1035) – larger than life; 

5. Announcement: If interested, GO TO GUIDANCE OFFICE for Playwriting TRIMESTER 3.

Finish listening to “The Lotus Eaters” and “The Cyclops” (and adding questions to our lists)

Watched 2-minute kid version of Cyclops 

ENGLISH homework: 

List of questions from 1^st 5 stories due tomorrow. 

Study for exam – Romeo & Juliet, The Odyssey use review sheet

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PLAYWRITING – Day 50 

HOMEROOM – pre-ID – 90 minutes – all classes shortened 

Read the actual ending to “The Boor” and compared to our endings - complete text: http://www.theatrehistory.com/plays/boor.html

Read “The Wedding” by Anton Chekhov – stopped ¾ of way through and individually, wrote out our guess of an ending – step by step by step – one-page possible ending 

 

Find complete text online at: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/40103/

 

CHARACTER LIST:

Max - EVDOKIM ZAHAROVITCH ZHIGALOV, a retired Civil Servant.

Shanna - NASTASYA TIMOFEYEVNA, his wife

Kay - DASHENKA, their daughter

Ethan - EPAMINOND MAXIMOVITCH APLOMBOV, Dashenka's bridegroom

Patrick - FYODOR YAKOVLEVITCH REVUNOV-KARAULOV, a retired captain

Connor - ANDREY ANDREYEVITCH NUNIN, an insurance agent

Kayle - ANNA MARTINOVNA ZMEYUKINA, a midwife, aged 30, in a brilliantly red dress

Darian - IVAN MIHAILOVITCH YATS, a telegraphist

Celia - HARLAMPI SPIRIDONOVITCH DIMBA, a Greek confectioner

Chelsea - DMITRI STEPANOVITCH MOZGOVOY, a sailor of the Imperial Navy (VolunteerFleet)

Mikayden - GROOMSMEN, GENTLEMEN, WAITERS, ETC.

PLAYWRITING homework: 

Finish ending.