Wednesday, May 14, 2014

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 41

 

Collect homework:                                                                              

1. Act 2 take-home test packet
2. And yesterday’s classwork: 18 quotations…(if you didn’t already turn it in yesterday)

 

WARMUP: Answer the 7 questions on the center table

 

Act 3, Scene 1 – answer the following questions:

1.      Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel, but Romeo refuses to fight. Reread lines 64-70 and fully explain WHY Romeo will not draw his sword.

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

3.      WHY does Mercutio say, “A plague a both our houses,” AND what does he MEAN?

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

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

6.      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.

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

 

Next, having read Act III, Scene 1, in a small group, you will write a script for a talk show (the rest of the hour) by following these steps:

 

1.      Read handout carefully (as a class)

2.      There are 5 questions on the handout that your characters must address.

a.       How was Mercutio killed

b.      Why Mercutio was killed….etc…(see details on handout)

c.       …

3.      Required length of script = 3 sides (of 2 sheets of paper)

1. Write on every line.

                                                              i.      Do not skip lines.

4.      No physical violence in your scripts. Characters may argue, but no violence.

5.      TO BE COLLECTED AT THE END OF TODAY’S CLASS

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

We will finish all of today’s classwork tomorrow, in class, and turn it in then.