BEFORE I COLLECT: Find your Romeo & Juliet Webquest (from yesterday) and read over your answers and then on the back side of the Webquest, answer the following:
- Using your answers as your proof, what conclusions can you
make about the Elizabethans? (list at least 3)
- List
what the Webquest doesn’t say. In other words, what has been left out? (list
at least 3)
- Find a trouble spot (an area you do not understand). Generate
questions around it. (list as many as you can)
- Complete the following: This Webquest reminds me of
________________because _________________________________.
- 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)
- TURN IN FOR CREDIT
NOTES:
- Students are to take notes on the 6 kinds of feet
(PITADS)...including iambs.
- They can just write the name of the foot and the
beat it makes.
- Ex. iamb – ta-TUM
Trochee, Iamb, or Spondee (that is
the question)…
Iamb: today, except
Trochee: dreadful, helpless, running, asking
Trochee: dreadful, helpless, running, asking
Spondee: Drop dead! Bite this!
Anapest: To the lake, understand
Dactyl: withering, heavily, talk to me
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Watch FLOW LIKE POE (song about iambs and
trochee etc.):
Read: next scene of R&J – Act 1 lines 61 - 156
Watched 2 excerpts of Romeo & Juliet of same opening
scene (old and new)
ENGLISH homework:
Bring your Literature book.
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PLAYWRITING – Day 9
ADD TO YOUR NOTES:
- Antagonist – the opposer of the action;
anyone or anything that tries to get in the protagonist’s way or stop him
in any way
- A good antagonist is: A strong villain, A loved one, Fate – “a god”, Society, Weather, Chance, luck, circumstance – a random act, Oneself
Continue working on:
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
- Today you will learn how to create a character - a protagonist. Perhaps it’s a character based on a real-life person, perhaps it’s one you’ve imagined.
- In approx. two pages, write a brief biographical sketch
of this person. You are creating a fictional character, but don’t be
afraid to base this character on a person or persons from real life.
Maybe the character is you. Maybe it’s someone you hardly know. Choose
the character’s birthdate, birthplace, and where the character grew up.
Choose the character’s family, social and economic background…EVERYTHING.
- Next describe 3 key events in that character’s life –
deaths, winning the lottery, childhood scars. Now look at your biography.
Is it interesting enough? Could the events and actions you’ve imagined be
altered to create a more interesting person? Is there any hint of a
rebellious spirit?
- Revise the biography. Play with different possibilities, different actions and events. Has your biography brought your character to a point in his or her life where a potential high-pressure crisis is suggested? The kind of crisis that could start a play?
PLAYWRITING homework:
None.
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