Monday, January 20, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 25

 

Collect homework: Act 2 open-book, take-home test packet             

 

Comma test - Number a paper 1-40 (and clear desk)

 

Graded tests

 

Tell students that #1,2 will be COLLECTED TOMORROW (after we finish 3,4):

1.      In the SAME reading group as the other day, read Romeo and Juliet Act III, Scene 1 and scene 2 (pgs. 872-887) and complete these 4 questions for both scenes…just like you did the other day…

1. Choose a character. What lesson(s) have I learned from that specific character in this scene?
2. This scene does not have a title. Give it a title and explain why.
3. What is the single most important word in this scene? Why?
4. What techniques did the author use in this scene to hold the readers’ interest?

 

2.      Write about a time when you (or someone you know) were so angry that you acted without thinking. – 2 paragraphs

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 25

 

Collect homework: 2 conversations, edited by sidestepping the obvious

 

Defined “subtle” and its antonym.

 

Wrote short scripts that lacked subtlety (2 ex’s meet at a barn)

 

Re-wrote same script with subtlety…

 

Student example (after we edited it as a class):

 

Ex. 1: Hi.

Ex. 1: So….how’s everything with…

Ex. 2: They’re fine.

Ex. 1: Have you told them?

Ex. 1: What did they say?

Ex. 2: They’d rather live in the circus.

Next we brainstormed who or what these two characters are talking about…dogs, kids, etc.

 

After choosing “kids”, we then each wrote the next moments of this script without letting either character leave.

 

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PLAYWRITING homework:

 

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