Thursday, January 9, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 18

 

·         Collect homework: Act 1 packet (take-home test)

·         WARMUP: Using the lists on page 805 and definition on page 1245, list 3 sets of foils from Romeo & Juliet (not including the example on page 1245 J)

·         Before reading Act 2, we looked at famous 4 lines (pg. 846, lines 33-36) and attempted to paraphrase them at our tables;

 

Comma notes:

·         Discussed the evil comma splice and how to eliminate it from sentences

o   The woman in the blue dress is my neighbor, she is rather tall.

o   The woman in the blue dress is my neighbor, FANBOYS she is rather tall.

·         Watch video

·         FANBOYS:

§  For: cause/effect
And: addition
Nor: choice
But: contrast
Or: choice
Yet: contrast
So: result

·         Practice identifying comma splices: “To Splice Is Not So Nice”

·         Find MAB poster on side counter and tape onto string…

·         Read summary of Act 2 scenes 1 and 2 (http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/SceneTextIndex.html)

·         Next, we listened to Act 2.1-2 (pages 843-853) – 20 minutes

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study Romeo & Juliet Act 1 quotes on blog entry for Friday’s test…”Who Said It”

 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 18

 

MANTRA:

Drama thrives only when characters are

in crisis, in extremes, in trouble.

 

Today you will continue scripting your latest scenes. These scenes should be 5 – 10 pages in length.

REMEMBER: No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them - in order that the reader may see what they are made of. 

After attendance, go to Lab 100…do not sit near a good friend. This is a writing session.

 

PRINT 2 COPIES FOR TOMORROW

 

PLAYWRITING homework:

 

PRINT 2 COPIES FOR TOMORROW