Tuesday, April 9, 2013

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 19 

1.      TO BE COLLECTED: 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. 

2.        Next, on the same paper as your sentence, write your own extended/Shakespearean metaphor: 

Step 1: (choose one of the items off the following list and brainstorm about it)

Battlefield Rainstorm Dance

Symphony 10 speed bike Circus

·         If you choose "BATTLEFIELD" - then brainstorm everything you associate with a battlefield.

STEP 2: Choose another item off the list and list the similarities of it to the item you chose for step 1:

·         How is a ___(battlefield)________ like a ________dance _______________?
List as many similarities as you can.
Write some of them into a LONG sentence that doesn’t read like a list.

STEP 3: Choose an abstract noun and list the similarities of it to the item you chose for step 1:

·         ABSTRACT/INTANGIBLE NOUNS: What are they? (dreams, love, memories, fear, happiness, confidence, imagination, death, inspiration, trust, hate…)

How is a battlefield like _______(abstract noun)_______________?
List as many similarities as you can.
Write some of them into a LONG sentence that doesn’t read like a list.

STEP 4: Your turn…You choose 1 from first list, 1 abstract (love, happiness, justice, respect, truth, life): How is ____(your choice)_______ like _____(abstract)______?

(TO BE COLLECTED)

Discussed things "taboo" in our culture and why we consider them to be taboo. Discussed the following taboo moment in Beatles history and then compared it to what Romeo says in Act 2.2 (pg. 845-846)…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfMmbXwH9xQ

Using Act 2, Scene 2 handout, paraphrase (put into simpler language) the famous soliloquy from Act 2 (pgs. 845 – 846) by writing out the 34 fill-in-blanks – TO BE COLLECTED

ENGLISH homework: 

None
 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 19 

Wrote for 15 minutes on “Climb Inside a Head” photo of young soldier. Writing in first person, we wrote what we imagined he was thinking as the photo was being taken. 

Underlined the most interesting things we wrote. Eventually we narrowed them down to the best sentence. 

Choosing one of your interesting ideas, start again. Expand on that idea. (5 minutes) 

Began performing 9 of our scripts from yesterday. 

PLAYWRITING homework: 

None