Tuesday, December 10, 2013

 

ENGLISH – 2^nd trimester – Day 9

 

Pick up 2 handouts on center table:

1.      “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout – test on these terms will be next week.

2.      Finish “Becoming Familiar with the Language of Shakespeare” handout.

 

After attendance, go to library and finish Webquest. PRINT.

I:Drive/RHS-RFC/StudentView/Mr. Van Bragt/Romeo&Juliet/Shakespeare WEBQUEST 2013

 

BEFORE turning in your Webquest, 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 full paragraph)

 

TAKE NOTES:

·         Take notes on the 6 kinds of feet (PITADS)...including iambs.

o    They can just write the name of the foot and the beat it makes.

§  Ex. iamb – ta-TUM

 

 

Trochee, Iamb, Anapest, Dactyl, or Spondee? (that is the question)…

DIRECTIONS: On the same paper as tonight’s homework, decide which PITADS each of the following group of words represents.

 

1.        today, except

2.        dreadful, helpless, running, asking

3.        Drop dead! Bite this!

4.        To the lake, understand

5.        withering, heavily, talk to me

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Finish “Becoming Familiar with the Language of Shakespeare” and answers to 1-5 above.

 

Study “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout for next week’s TEST

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 9

 

WARMUP: List all the things you remember from the two videos we watched yesterday.

• David Kelley – How To Build Your Creative Confidence
• Natasha Tsakos – A Multimedia Theatrical Adventure

 

Read

1. “Proof of What Happens When You Just Let Go” by David Auburn
2. “Characters in Conflict” (pg. 29 – 33)

In order to perform our scripts, we will begin our rehearsal in mime to figure out what the characters are going to DO…what they are going to ACT…the script will eventually tell them what they will get to say.

 

PLAYWRITING homework:

None