Wednesday, April 30, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 30

 

Number a paper 1 – 15. Read the following 15 quotes; without using your books, write down WHO SAID IT.

1.      Draw if you be men, Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

2.      I do but keep the peace.

3.      From those bloody hands, throw your mistempered weapons to the ground.

4.      My noble uncle, do you know the cause?

5.      In sadness cousin, I do love a woman.

6.      Go, sirrah, trudge about through fair Verona; find those persons out whose names are written there

7.      And if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine.

8.      Nurse, give leave awhile.

9.      And then my husband (God be with his soul!)

10.  Her wagoner, a gray-coated gnat

11.  She that makes dainty, she I’ll swear hath corns.

12.  For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night

13.  To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

14.  You are a saucy boy.

15.  Go ask his name

 

Today’s open-book, take-home test packet will be graded AS A TEST GRADE and…

• is worth nearly 5 homework assignments.
• will require that you use your textbook glossary that begins on page 1240
• is due FRIDAY (not tomorrow)

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study for Friday’s “Who Said It” test

Open- book, take-home test-packet on Act 1 due Friday

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 29

1.      ADD TO NOTES:

a.       AAAWWUBBIS – After, Although, As, While, When, Until, Before, Because, If, Since) at the beginning of one of the independent clauses and joining the two independent clauses

Examples: 

• If you do not understand the directions, you can read them again.
• Before you write the sentence, you should read other people's sentences.
• After you have read them all, you can try to use a different AAAWWUBBIS word.
• Although you may not understand all this, you can follow the examples.

 

2.      Take out your comma notes…today we will add 8 rules of commas

• Complete 1 – 20 – “The Comma Count is 32” – will review answers this week

3.      Watch OLD video: Act 1

4.      Find MAB poster on side counter and tape onto string…

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Study for Friday’s “Who Said It” test – use the below samples as a place to start you studies:

Monday, April 28, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 28

 

·      Using your book, list 6 different things that happened in Act 1.5.

·         A brief summary of Act 1.5 from:

http://www.shakespeare-navigators.com/romeo/SceneTextIndex.html

 ·         Write an example of a compound sentence.

• What makes it “compound”?

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.

§  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”

 

ENGLISH homework:

Study for Friday’s “Who Said It” test – use the below samples as a place to start you studies:

Friday, April 25, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 27

 

·         Collect yesterday’s classwork…be sure to STAPLE your Queen Mab drawing to your 1-10 questions from the other day.

 

1.   Write down 7 important quotations from 7 different characters from Romeo & Juliet Act 1. (pages 807 - 839)

2.      On the BACK write down which character said each of their 7 quotes.

 

·        Watch 20 minutes of NEW Romeo & Juliet video (to the end of Act 1)

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

None

Thursday, April 24, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 26

 

Clear your desk (in preparation to take Dramatic Literary Terms test)

 

Answer the following:

• Without opening your book, name 4 things you guess will happen when Romeo & his posse crash the Capulet party?

 

Read Act 1.5, pgs. 833 - 839

 

After you’re done reading,

1.      Sketch a simple picture of Queen Mab and her carriage according to Mercutio’s description.

2.      ADD 10 quotes to each piece of your drawing…

§  Next to each detail you drew, write in the word-for-word quotation from the speech that told you what to draw…

·         For example:

1.      “Her wagoner, a small, gray-coated gnat”

2.      “Her whip, of cricket’s bone; the lash, of film”

 

·         TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW (staple these together)…

1.      Answers to questions 1 - 10 (from yesterday)

2.      Today’s labeled drawing of Queen Mab and her carriage

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

Finish your drawing of Queen Mab and her carriage (see page 830-831 for 10 details)

 

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 25

 

Collect homework: 7 characters from Act 1 – love and marriage

 

Using your Literary Terms handout, answer the following:

1. What is the difference between a soliloquy and a monologue?
2. Write a sentence that contains an allusion to Santa Claus.
3. Create an epithet for the celebrity of your choice.
4. Name the oxymoron for each of the following words: apart, blame, rare, vertical, loose, plural
5. What literary term means emotional relief?
6. What’s the definition of a couplet?
7. How do you suppose “blank verse” got its definition?

 

Answer the following 4 questions…write about why some people think each of the following kinds of dreams are important…

1.      the ones we dream at night,

2.      the ones we have while awake, and

3.      the ones we have for our futures

4.      Where do you think dreams come from?

 

Watched video on dreaming… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGzc3x9WJU&feature=player_embedded#!

 

Listened to Act 1, Scene 4…introducing us to a new character: Mercutio

 

TO BE COLLECTED: Using your textbooks Act 1.4 lines 71 – 88 (pg. 830-831), name the dreams that Queen Mab delivers for each of the following characters?

1.      Lovers dream of:

2.      Courtiers (first mention) dream of:

3.      Lawyers dream of:

4.      Ladies dream of:

5.      Courtiers (second mention) dream of:

6.      A parson dreams of:

7.      A soldier dreams of:

8.      Why do you suppose Mercutio tells such a fantastic story to Romeo?

 

Re-read Romeo’s mention of his two “dreams” in Act 1.4…

·         DREAM 1 - Lines 48 – 49

·         DREAM 2 - Lines 106 – 111

9. Summarize what Romeo is saying in Dream 2?

10. What do both of these dreams tell us about Romeo?

 

ENGLISH homework:

·          Study for test on the “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout

o    TO STUDY, create test questions for each of the terms.

§   Remember, you will be given definitions and examples of each…you will be asked to identify which term applies.

·          Use the link below to practice for the test with the Jeopardy game:

o   http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201212/game1332198539.php

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 24

 

o   Review Webquest answers. Revise your answers.

o   Review answers to yesterday’s 5 question feet challenge:

 

ANSWER KEY:

Iamb: today, except
Trochee: dreadful, helpless, running, asking

Spondee: Drop dead! Bite this!

Anapest: To the lake, understand

Dactyl: withering, heavily, talk to me

 

o   PITADS follow up: Watch FLOW LIKE POE (song about iambs and trochee etc.):

o   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84

o   Watch “How and Why We Read – Crash Course” video (10 minutes)

o   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Z0VynTR84

 

ACTIVITY TO BE COLLECTED:

1.      (TO BE COLLECTED) Using your “Dramatic Literary Terms to Know” handout…

a.       create 7 Jeopardy-like questions

b.      write an epithet for yourself

c.       In a paragraph of 4 sentences or more, describe how a person forms an opinion about love or marriage.

d.      In another paragraph, write about your feelings and attitudes about love and marriage.

e.       If some people would INFER that people who say, “I love horror movies” are also creepy, or scary, or fearless, or sad, or they like adrenaline rushes, or are evil, or violent, or bored…

                                                  i.      What might some people INFER about someone who says, “Nothing happened at school today.”

2.      Using Act 1, looked up lines that reveal each of the 7 characters’ experience with, feelings about, or attitudes toward love and/or marriage. (all from Act 1) 

Scene 1 Romeo Benvolio

Scene 2 Paris Capulet

Scene 3 Juliet Lady Capulet Nurse

 

For each of the 7 characters above:

DIRECTIONS: Besides the obvious, what else does your chosen quote say about the character as a person (what can you infer)?

1.      Write the words, “Because (character) says, “_______(fill-in with word for word quote)_______________________________________” (about love or marriage), he must also believe ________(not obvious)______________.

a.       Do not simply say, “Because he says _______, he is creepy.”

2.      Write the line numbers for each quote (ex. Act 1.2.34-39)

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

·         Finish assignment above: 7 characters from Act 1 – love and marriage

·         Study for test on the “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout – be able to identify both the definitions and examples of each term

·         Use the link below to practice with the Jeopardy game:

o   http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201212/game1332198539.php

Monday, April 21, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 23

 

o   Take out your WEBQUEST and answer the following 5 questions…

 

1. 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 educated guesses (or inferences) 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)

 

§  Turn it in FOR CREDIT

 

****Announce test on Literary Terms this week THURSDAY****

 

2.      Open books to Act 1, Scene 2 and 3

a.       First, read the summaries of both scenes

                                                  i.      http://www.shmoop.com/romeo-and-juliet/act-1-scene-2-summary.html

b.      Next, listen to professional actors read the same two scenes…

3.      Study for Thursday’s test on the “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout – be able to identify both the definitions and examples of each term

TAKE NOTES:

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

oJust 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

 

o   Memorize as much of your Dramatic Literary Terms handout as you can…we’ll start Jeopardy in 10 minutes…

o   http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201212/game1332198539.php

 

ENGLISH homework:

• Study for test on Thursday on the “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout – be able to identify both the definitions and examples of each term
• Use the link below to practice with the Jeopardy game:
• http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201212/game1332198539.php