Thursday, April 30, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 31 

·         COLLECTED homework.

Practiced identifying the speaker of various quotations from Act 1.

 

 

Watched video to the end of Act 1 (Romeo & Juliet)

ENGLISH homework:

None

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PLAYWRITING – Day 31

FINISH 2 scripts from yesterday…SHARE your scripts with me on EDMODO, today.

With a partner, create a GOOGLE DOC and with BOTH NAMES at the top, write 2 short, 1-sided scripts…use this website for a topic…http://www.thestorystarter.com/jr.htm

1. SCRIPT #1 = write it so it lacks subtlety, is literal, and the characters’ echo each other.
2. SCRIPT #2 = re-write script #1, this time using subtlety and various forms of sidesteps (see notes above)

Pick up copy of notes (handout). 

PLAYWRITING homework: 

1.      Individually, create test and answer key based on the playwriting notes/handout…(5 questions per page of notes, 20 questions total)

2.      Imagine a situation where you (or someone you know) was persuaded to do something that you initially didn’t want to do. Now imagine that the persuading was done over the phone.

3.      On a separate paper, you will write ½ of a phone conversation where we only hear what the persuadee’s (the person being persuaded) says as he speaks into the phone (as if he was on a phone and we could only hear his side of things).

a.       The persuadee is the “buyer” (the persuader would be the “seller”). We’re focusing on the “buyer’s” side of the conversation only. Do not write down what the persuader is saying.

4.      Include at least 20 different responses for the persuadee.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 30

Take Dramatic Literary Terms test)

After you turn in your test,

1.      Sketch a simple picture of Queen Mab and her carriage according to Mercutio’s description. (page 830)

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”

3.      Staple your drawing to questions 1 – 10 from yesterday and turn in to the bin on the center table…then…

After turning in your drawing and 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

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

ENGLISH homework:

Write down 4 guesses (BEFORE READING)

Read Act 1.5, pgs. 833 – 839 –

Write down 6 actual things that happen in that scene (AFTER READING)

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PLAYWRITING – Day 30

WARMUP: Write a quick ½ page script for 2 characters (character #1 and #2) that echoes EVERY LINE…1/2 page….topic of your choice…UNDERLINE each ECHO.

NEXT, take 1 exchange from your script and rewrite it by having character #2 sidestep by commenting on something else.

Do it again, this time, have character #2 sidestep with a question.

Do it again…this time, have character #2 sidestep with silence…and have character #1 respond.

Do it again…this time, have character #2 sidestep with an action…and have character #1 respond.

With an assigned partner, create a GOOGLE DOC and with BOTH NAMES at the top, write 2 short, 1-sided scripts…use this website for a topic…http://www.thestorystarter.com/jr.htm

1. SCRIPT #1 = write it so it lacks subtlety, is literal, and the characters’ echo each other.
2. SCRIPT #2 = re-write script #1, this time using subtlety and various forms of sidesteps (see notes above)

PLAYWRITING homework:

None

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 29 

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

WARMUP: 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?

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

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?

Before reading actual scene, read Schmoop: http://www.shmoop.com/romeo-and-juliet/act-1-scene-4-summary.html the read Act 1, Scene 4…introducing us to a new character: Mercutio

Open books to Act 1, Scene 4 and read it…introducing…MERCUTIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With your Jeopardy partner from yesterday, sign onto Edmodo and follow directions.

DIRECTIONS: ANSWER questions 1 – 10 below:

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    Also, log on to Edmodo and play some of your classmates’Jeopardy games. Please note that they tend to open in Chrome (and not Internet Explorer).

§   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:

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

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PLAYWRITING – Day 29

COLLECT HOMEWORK:  

1. Your original sidestepped script
1. (please write the word “ORIGINAL” on the top
2. Your rewrite of someone else’s ECHO script…changing it from an echo to a sidestep
1. (please write the word “REWRITE” at the top

After turning in your work, write down a list of 10 things that some people do to get others to do what they want.

READ scripts to class…

THEME OF THE DAY: Persuasion

ANNOUNCE: that # 1-5 (below) will be collected this hour…

(Write answers the following prompts):

1.        Write down a list of 10 things that some people do to get others to do what they want.

2.        On a similar note, write down a list of 7 ways that people might make YOU agree, even reluctantly, to do something that someone else asks of you? (parents, teachers, enemies, friends, salespeople, popular kids, disabled people, celebrities, etc.)

3.        Think of a SPECIFIC time when you were persuaded to do something you didn’t want to do but were FINALLY persuaded to do. Write down a short summary of that story.

a.        Include what the other person did or said that helped to persuade you?

4.        Next, list 10 different things that you, personally, will never buy (for any number of reasons). Anything at all (as long as it’s appropriate for school).

5.        Next, pick one thing off your list. Your job now is going to be to write an advertisement that will convince people like you to buy the very item that they said they would never buy.

a.        The key is going to be to think of things that can be done with the item that aren’t obvious. For example, if your partner said that they would never buy tuna fish in a can, you may want to sell them tuna fish in a can by suggesting they use it to pound in tent stakes, or freak out their brother by hiding it in his socks, or perhaps, build a vest out of multiple cans of tuna and start a new fashion trend.

                                       i.      So first, list some funny, creative things that could be done with their item (these will become your copy points in your advertisement).

b.        Next, write a script for a TV commercial that will persuade you to buy one of the items on your I’ll-Never-Buy list.

6.        TURN IN #1 – 5 in bin on large table

PLAYWRITING homework:

Finish above

Redo your rewrite of someone else’s script

Monday, April 27, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 28

Collect classwork from Friday: 7 characters on love

Announce test on Dramatic Literary Terms this week WEDNESDAY

Using your “Dramatic Literary Terms to Know” handout, students are to create a jeopardy review game for their test on Wednesday…they are to:

·         Sign on to a computer and go to http://www.jeopardy.rocks/

                                                  i.      Click “BUILD NOW”

                                                ii.      Choose a URL for your game board

                                              iii.      Enter your rockfordschools.org GOOGLE email address

                                              iv.      Start creating questions…

·         You must create questions that include EXAMPLES as well as DEFINITIONS

                                                  i.      Example questions would look like this:

1.      QUESTION: Getting yelled at by the school’s principle is an example of what?

a.       ANSWER: monologue

2.      QUESTION: You get home an hour late and you mother lectures you for 15 minutes straight is an example of what?

a.       ANSWER: monologue

                                                ii.      Definition questions would look like this:

1.      QUESTION: a lengthy speech to other characters

a.       ANSWER: monologue

To create your questions just click on a square and enter your questions and answers. You can go back and edit your game board whenever you like by entering your board's URL and entering your email address again.

 

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1, 3, 4:  

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

o   Use the link below to practice with the Jeopardy game:§  http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Mar201212/game1332198539.php

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PLAYWRITING – Day 28 

·         We wrote literally (on the line) then wrote indirectly…using this class and the guidance office as our topic and target.

o   Discussed manipulation while writing indirectly…if you can’t say exactly what you want (on the line), how do you get what you want?

·         Discussed a situation where an angry mother tells her daughter that the daughter is NOT to ask her for another single favor for the next month!

o   And the play opens with the daughter in need of an immediate favor from the mother.

§  How do you write this script?

§  Where do you begin?

§  What options does the daughter have?

§  What would you, personally, do in this situation?

·         Rewrite someone else’s ECHO script…changing it from an echo to a sidestep

o   COLLECTED

·         Also, turn in your echo scripts (not your sidestepped script)

o   COLLECTED 

Discussed direct and indirect dialogue (before getting our 3-page scripts returned) 

Continued to work on yesterday’s ECHO and SIDESTEPPED scripts 

PLAYWRITING homework:

Finish rewriting someone else’s ECHO script…changing it from an echo to a sidestep

Friday, April 24, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 27

WARMUP: If a person says, “You’d be great at making videos…you should sign up for TV Studio next year.” Write down what might have happened a year ago that makes this person say such things today? (Make up a believable story)

Summarize Act 1, Scene 2 & 3 before reading them…

OR, sign onto a computer…go to one of the following sites and read what happens in Romeo & Juliet, Act 1, Scenes 2 & 3 only –

            Shakespeare-navigators.com

shmoop.com

sparknotes.com

litcharts.com

cliffnotes.com

            Shakespeare-online.com

READ ALOUD…Open books to Act 1, Scene 2 and read through to the end of scene 3

1.       INTRODUCTION: Today you will use the first 3 scenes of Act 1 to explore LOVE and MARRIAGE and identify each of the 7 main characters experience with, feelings about, or attitudes toward love and/or marriage.

DIRECTIONS: Complete a, and b for each of the 7 characters below:

Scene 1 Romeo Benvolio

Scene 2 Paris Capulet

Scene 3 Juliet Lady Capulet Nurse

a.       Write down a quote from each character where they are revealing their feelings about love or marriage. Write the line numbers for each quote (ex. Act 1.2.34-39)

b.       Next, write down what might have happened a year ago that makes this character say such things today? (Make up a believable story)

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

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PLAYWRITING – Day 27 

Discussed direct and indirect dialogue (before getting our 3-page scripts returned) 

Continued to work on yesterday’s ECHO and SIDESTEPPED scripts 

PLAYWRITING homework:  

none

Thursday, April 23, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 26 

USING THE CHART BELOW… 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 

 

Trochee, Iamb, Anapest, Dactyl, or Spondee? (that is the question)… 

·         Using the chart above, figure out the category of your first and last name

o   Mr. (trochee) Van Bragt (iamb)

·         Watch 2 excerpts of Romeo & Juliet of same opening scene (old and new) 

·         Watched short videos on Shakespeare:

1. Prologue of Romeo and Juliet
2. Guinea Pig Romeo and Juliet 

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1, 3, 4:  

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

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PLAYWRITING – Day 26

Take out your 4-step dramatization from yesterday. Grade it on a scale of 1 – 10…10 best a perfect 10…your best work to date. 1 = horrible.

SHARE: Review yesterday’s 4 steps of dramatization

Took notes on echoing and sidestepping:

SIDESTEP THE OBVIOUS
One of the most common mistakes aspiring writers make with dialogue is creating a simple back-and-forth exchange. Each line responds directly to the previous line, often repeating a word or phrase (an “echo”).

“Hello, Mary.”
“Hi, Sylvia.”
“My, that’s a wonderful outfit you’re wearing.”
“Outfit? You mean this old thing?”
“Old thing! It looks practically new.”
“It’s not new, but thank you for saying so.”

There are no surprises, and the reader drifts along with little interest. While some direct response is fine, your dialogue will be stronger if you sidestep the obvious:

“Hello, Mary.”
“Sylvia. I didn’t see you.”
“My, that’s a wonderful outfit you’re wearing.”
“I need a drink.”

You can also sidestep with a question:

“Hello, Mary.”
“Sylvia. I didn’t see you.”
“My, that’s a wonderful outfit you’re wearing.”
“Where is he, Sylvia?”

After choosing a new “nugget/situation”: eating a pancake…

            We chose a partner we have not yet worked with…

Together, we created a 4-step dramatization…

Next, we scripted a moment or two (but we echoed)

Finally, we re-wrote the script with sidesteps.

PLAYWRITING homework:

none

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 24

Collect homework (or a pink sheet): “Becoming Familiar with the Language of Shakespeare” handout.

TO BE COLLECTED: Similar to yesterday, again, using your textbook, complete the following:

1.       COPY down Act 1, Scene 1, line 79…then, above it, mark the iambs with 5 sets of   (U      /)

2.       Go to Act 1, Scene 1, line 92…write down the definition  of “cankered”

3.       How many Acts are there total, in the whole play?

4.       In Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1 – 62 are not written in iambic pentameter. Starting with line 63, nearly every line is. Make a guess as to why this is.

5.       Write out Romeo’s first line of the play.

6.       Write out Juliet’s first line of the play.

7.       In your own words, explain what Benvolio means in Act 1, Scene 1, line 160.

8.       Write 2 lines of iambic pentameter that address the idea of lowering the driving age to 12.

9.       Now shuffle the word order of your each of your two lines (without adding any words)

·         READ the following 9 facts:

Romeo and Juliet Fast Facts

1.       The full title of the play is The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

2.       It is generally thought that Romeo and Juliet was first performed in 1594-1595 and first printed in 1597.

3.       The play takes place in Verona and Mantua Italy around the 14^th century.

4.       Juliet is 13 turning 14 in the play.

5.       The best-known movie versions are Franco Zefferilli's from 1968 and Baz Luhrmann's (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes) from 1996.

6.       The musical West Side Story (1957) was based on Romeo and Juliet.

7.       Before the 20^th century the ending of the play was often changed so that Romeo and Juliet lived.

8.       The first woman to play Juliet was Mary Saunderson in a 1662 production.

9.       In 1845 the parts of Romeo and Juliet were played in a production by two sisters, Charlotte and Susan Cushman. Charlotte played the part of Romeo.

·         Next, choose any 4 of the following words and write out their definitions (from memory – no books or phones please):

o    Tragedy, Comic Relief, Allusion, Foil, Soliloquy, Aside, Monologue, Blank Verse, Juxtaposition, Universal Theme, Irony, Catharsis, Noble, Oxymoron, Epithet

·         Pick up handout: “Dramatic Literary Terms” handout – test on these terms will be next week.

·         Read Romeo & Juliet Act 1.1.101 - 235 (pages 812 – 817 in Literature book).

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1, 3, 4:

none

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PLAYWRITING – Day 25

“War is bad” is a nugget/situation, but a good play and a bad play can have the same nugget of an idea. It’s not the quality of the idea that matters most, but rather the quality of the ideas as depicted by THE ACTIONS of the play. The Art & Craft of Playwriting (1996)

Took notes on the 4 steps of the dramatization of idea (pg. 67-68) including situation/nugget, conflict, journey, and theatricality.

Individually practice writing through the 4 steps of dramatization (using today’s notes) – topic of your choice

Brainstormed on THEATRICALITY and how it could manifest itself on stage:

Theatricality

1. Stage freezes except for main character
2. Bow-tie laser
3. Animals talking
4. Animated inanimate objects (talking squares)
5. Portals
6. Time-travel
7. Talking conscience
8. Flying
9. Weather
10. See dreams
11. Fantastical creatures
12. Magic
13. Blending into background
14. Music
15. Waves/water

Watched a bit of a TED talk on War Horse (and puppetry): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7u6N-cSWtY

PLAYWRITING homework:

None

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

 

ENGLISH – 3rd trimester – Day 23

Collect your homework: WEBQUEST

Using your textbook, complete the following:

1.      Find Act 3, Scene 3, line 165…

a.       Copy down that line and its page number.

2.      How many lines total are there in Act 1 scene 3?

3.      Write down an example of unusual word order from page 812.

4.      Using page 805, name which family each of the following characters belong: 

a.       Tybalt, Romeo, Friar Lawrence, Lady Montague, Nurse

5.      Write up a line of iambic pentameter that describes a happy moment in your life.

a.       Mark the 5 iambs… u  /

·         Watched short videos as an introduction to Shakespeare:

o   Mini Biography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geev441vbMI (5 minutes)

o   The History of English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bks-5NLshy4 (1.5 minutes)

o   Shakespearean Fairy Tale – John Branyan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyd17aaHCgU (8.5 minutes)

·         ADD to NOTES:

o   Pun = a form of wordplay that occurs when two words, pronounced and spelled somewhat the same, contain different meanings

·         Discussed PUNS

·         Began reading and discussing Romeo & Juliet Act 1.1.1 -  (Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1 – 100 - pgs. 807 – 812 in Literature book - also see No Fear Shakespeare edition)

ENGLISH homework:

COMPLETE: “Becoming Familiar with the Language of Shakespeare” handout

Bring your Literature book (the purple one) every day.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 24

Same as yesterday…thoughtful critiques…

·         TO BE COLLECTED:

o   With some else’s script, read it, then:

o   In full sentences, answer each of the following about THEIR script:

1.      Why this moment? (in other words, why did they start their script now and not later?)

2.      What’s going to make the audience care about the outcome of this scene?

3.      Name the non-violent conflicts in their scene.

4.      What surprised you in their script?

5.      List each character in the script. Next to their names, list which of the following characteristics apply to each:

                                                                          i.      Personality – interesting (not boring)

                                                                        ii.      Dynamic

                                                                      iii.      Unpredictable

                                                                      iv.      Imperfect/flawed

                                                                        v.      Complicated (layered)

                                                                      vi.      Relatable

                                                                    vii.      Spontaneous

                                                                  viii.      Conflicted

6.      Write out the “dominoes” in their scene…number them in order.

7.      What role, if any, did chance, coincidence, accident, fate, the weather, or dumb luck play in the story?

8.      Make 2 columns, then list what parts of their script they wrote in linear fashion (chronological) and what parts were told out of sequence?

9.      Recommend 2 constructive things that the writer should CHANGE in their current script.

PLAYWRITING homework:

None