Friday, January 24, 2014

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 29

Collect 15 lines (and talk show scripts) from the other day…

 

WARMUP: Answer the 6 questions on the center table

 

Act 3, Scene 1 – answer the following questions:

1.      Tybalt challenges Rome to a duel, but Romeo refuses to fight. Reread lines 65-71 and fully explain WHY Romeo will not draw his sword.

2.      Read lines 72-81. Explain WHY Mercutio (instead of Romeo) fights Tybalt.

3.      HOW is Mercutio partly responsible for his own death?

4.      WHY did Romeo, who “loves” Tybalt, kill him, AND how does this reveal a character flaw in Romeo?

5.      DESCRIBE the punishment the Prince decrees for Romeo at the end of Act III, Scene i.  Infer (or reason) and explain why the Prince chooses this punishment.

6.      In Act III, Scene I, lines 107-113 – Is this speech a soliloquy, an aside or a monologue.  Explain.

 

Read summaries of Act 3, scenes 3,4,5 from http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/SceneTextIndex.html

 

Listen to the rest of Act 3 on CD (scenes 3,4,5 – pgs. 888 – 905)…(30 minutes)

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 29

 

Collect homework:

1. Collect: 20 question test and answer key
2. Check: ½ phone conversation

 

TO BE COLLECTED:

• Using someone else’s phone conversation from yesterday’s homework, write out the other ½ for them. (20 responses, as persuade)
• At your table groups, perform ALL your phone conversations…read them ALOUD to each other.
• Staple both parts of the conversation together…COLLECTED

Take notes on the video: The Science of Persuasion: http://youtu.be/cFdCzN7RYbw

 

Using your notes on 6 scientifically proven ways of persuasion…in a group of 6, each of you choose a different method of persuasion and write down a scenario that persuades another person to buy an animal from the pound. (approx. a paragraph)

 

PLAYWRITING homework:

 

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