Monday, March 2, 2015

ENGLISH – HOURS 1 & 3 - Day 51

Work on completing Exam Review Guide

For online practice, try these links:

·          Parts of speech: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/215.html

·          Most Dangerous Game: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=most-dangerous-game_1

·          Apostrophe practice: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/39.html

·          Cask of Amontillado: http://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/9555-the-cask-of-amontillado

·          Plural practice: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/288.html

o    And http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/391.html

o    http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/71.html

o    http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/356.html

·          Author’s Purpose: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/practicetest?TUAG7034

·          The Scarlet Ibis: http://www.quia.com/quiz/326362.html?AP_rand=1710972736

·          Fact or Opinion: http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html

·          Possessive and reflexive pronouns: http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/62.html

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1 & 3

Use study guide to review for exam.

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ENGLISH – 2nd trimester – Day 51

Listen to NPR story (Romeo & Juliet Misremembered)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121975740

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 your #1 and #2 slips PREVENT THE TRAGEDY from occurring in the play.

Ex.

Romeo: blah blah blah

Lady Capulet: blah blah blah

Romeo: blah?

Lady Capulet:  no, blah!

 

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 4 & 5:

Study for exam – Romeo & Juliet, The Odyssey see review sheet for details