ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 38
· Signup!
o Each team signs up…you must include…
§ FULL names of each team member
§ Type of project (ex. World of Warcraft video, original song, etc.)
§ Which theme (true or false)
§ a 10-line speech
· Complete R&J 19 Review Questions (handout) – use your Literary Terms handout and your textbook for help.
o COLLECTED FOR GRADE
· Begin homework
ENGLISH homework:
Complete Who’s To Blame activity:
What you’ll need:
1. One piece of lined paper cut up into 10 slips
2. Another piece of paper (to record your answers)
a. Write each of the 10 characters on their own slip (Romeo, Juliet, Prince, Lord & Lady Capulet, Lord & Lady Montague, Fate (or Destiny), Tybalt, Nurse, Friar Lawrence, Mercutio
b. On the back of each slip, write 2 different reasons that some people would say this character was responsible for the tragedy of the play
c. Next arrange your slips in the following diamond-like order: 1,2,4,2,1 (record this order on your paper)
d. Arrange them again in a single file order of 1 to 10 (record this order on your paper)
e. Next, using your top 2 slips...
i. Write a NEW SCENE (10 exchanges in script form) for the play where their 2 top characters PREVENT THE TRAGEDY from occurring in the play.
Ex.
Romeo: blah blah blah
Lady Capulet: blah blah blah
Romeo: blah?
Lady Capulet: no, blah!
R & J FINAL PROJECT RUBRIC (worth 50 points):
1. The theme/story = 20 points (thorough interpretation of your stand on a specific theme, important story elements from R&J, proper length)
2. Creativity = 10 points (ideas are unique and enjoyable)
3. Effort = 10 points (project is thoughtful and well-prepared; shows considerable effort; looks complete)
4. Recital = 10 points - TYPED COPY (worth 3 pts.) and considerable effort shown in memorization of piece
a. IMPORTANT:
i. You may NOT give your recital without a typed copy of your speech.
ii. You may NOT memorize from these 2 speeches: “Two households…” (pg. 807) or “But soft, what light…” (pg. 845-846)
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PLAYWRITING – Day 38
Read Billy Collins poem “Days.”
Using it as inspiration for a free write, write for 5 minutes.
Next underline the most interesting things you wrote. Then choose one of your interesting ideas, and, using it as your inspiration, write again. (5 minutes)
READERS THEATRE – DAY 1
Each student is assigned a role from a variety of scripts:
The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe), Silas Marner (George Eliot), The House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne), A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens), Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë), White Fang (Jack London), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
After highlighting our parts (marking only words we SPEAK, not stage directions), we underlined words we thought the character would stress. We also underlined anything that gave us something to act out.
Next we thought about how our character would sound and move. We walked around the room, practicing.
Next, we met with the other actors from our scripts and re-read the script in character.
After practicing as a group, we began performances.
Things to remember: Talk loud! Talk with feeling. Talk slowly. Speak each syllable clearly.
PLAYWRITING homework:
None
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