Wednesday, May 6, 2015

 

ENGLISH – HOURS 1, 3, 4 – Day 35

COLLECT homework: Open-notes, take-home test on Act 1 of Romeo & Juliet

Watch English 911 video.

TAKE Romeo & Juliet Act 1 TEST (on Edmodo)

COMPLETE # 1 – 7 below (TO BE COLLECTED)

1.       Number a paper 1 – 20 and complete “The Comma Count is 32”

a.       Do NOT write on the handout

b.       Do NOT rewrite the sentences

                                                   i.      Simply write each word that needs a comma added after it.

1.       There may be more than one in a sentence.

2.       Write up one sentence with a comma splice in it, then fix it with a FANBOYS and circle the FANBOY.

3.       Write up one sentence with an AAAWWUBBIS and circle the AAAWWUBBIS.

4.       Complete a,b,c (below)…

a.       Choose one of the following characters from Romeo and Juliet.

                                                   i.      1. Capulet 2. Lady Capulet 3. Nurse 4. Romeo 5. Juliet 6. Tybalt 7. Paris

b.       In one sentence, explain how this character would have behaved DIFFERENTLY than you (in some made up situation).

c.        In another sentence, explain why this character would have behaved DIFFERENTLY than you.

5.       Use the list (in your textbooks) on page 805 and definition on page 1245 to write down 3 sets of foils from Romeo & Juliet (not including the example on page 1245 J)

6.       Write down what proof you have that each set of characters (that you listed above #5) are foils?

7.       Before reading Act 2, look at the 4 famous lines on pg. 846, lines 33-36 and paraphrase them into 4 easy to understand lines. TURN IN 1-7 IN TO BLACK BIN ON LARGE TABLE…then…

BEGIN:

1.       Read Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2 (pages 843-853)

2.       Write down what 4 things are being compared in the extended metaphor lines 177-184 (pg. 852)

3.       Like our Queen Mab drawings, draw a PICTURE that includes 6 quotations from the following Shakespearean (extended) metaphor from Romeo and Juliet Act 2.2. 

ROMEO
25                                                                   She speaks!
26   O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
27   As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
28   As is a winged messenger of heaven
 29   Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
30   Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
31   When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds
32   And sails upon the bosom of the air. 

ENGLISH homework – HOURS 1, 3, 4: 

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PLAYWRITING – Day 35

READ/PERFORM each other’s SIDESTEPPED scripts (that you wrote with a partner).

REWRITE your subtle script

PLAYWRITING homework:

none