Shakespeare:

Today:

I collected your projects.
Kathleen would not share her movie, but she shared her socks.

We watched the Gibson version of Hamlet.

Have a great weekend.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We defined: Style, Tone and Irony.

We looked at the 4 types of characterization: Direct, Indirect, What others say and by physical appearance.

We talked about how all of this relates to Chaucer.

We completed part 3 of your pilgrimage project:

Write a 4-6 line poem about yourself trying to duplicate Chaucer's style.

Step #1:  Give yourself a title.
Step #2:  Write a 4-6 line poem about yourself, trying to duplicate the parts of Chaucer's style that we defined.
Step#3:  We wrote these on a clean sheet of paper
Ste#4:  Staple in this order-  Prologue Poem about yourself, sheet of symbols that define you, Pilgrimage Story.

I collected these.

I passed back you quizzes from this week.  If you were absent, it is your responsibility to make them up.  I will be afterschool Tuesday and Wed.

We began watching  A Knight's Tale.
HW:  Please finish your project if you did not pass it in.  Have a great weekend!

WOS:

Today:

I passed back your last two quizzes.  If you did not do as well as you had hoped, please consider staying after during my late night.  I am afterschool every Wed. and most Tuesdays.  I would be happy to help.

I answered any lingering questions on the assignment due this Friday.

We had day 2 of 2 working in the computer lab on your Hamlet projects.

HW:  Please make sure your projects are completed.  I will be collecting these Friday.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We took a quiz on The Pardoner's Tale.

We went to the computer lab for day 2 of 2 working on your Pilgrimage paper.

HW:  Please make sure your symbolism sheet and Pilgrimage paper are both finished for Friday.

WOS:

Today:
We spent day 1 of 2 working on your Hamlet projects.  These are due this Friday.  Please see me with any questions.

We also reviewed Act III and took a quiz on the reading.  Please see me if you were absent to make this up.

HW:  Work on your Hamlet projects.  You will have Thursday's class to also work on this.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We spent day 1 of 2 in the computer lab working on your pilgrimage stories.  All three parts: intro poem, symbolism sheet, and pilgrimage story, are due this Friday.

Brit Lit:

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Brit Lit:

Today:

We spent the first 20 minutes finishing your prologue character sketch.

You presented these to the class.  I suggested taking notes.  I allowed you to use your notes on the quiz.

We took a quiz on the prologue.

HW:  Please finish reading The Pardoner's Tale.

WOS:

Today:

I asked you to imagine what Will Shakespeare's Facebook page might have looked like during the writing of Hamlet.  I tasked each of you to make a fictional FB page.  We shared these.



I shared an article from the NYT on censorship in China that centered around a line from the play.

We acted out act III.

I went over the Hamlet project(s)  Please select one of the three options and be ready to work on these this Wed and Thursday.

HW:  Please begin work on your project.  These are due March 1.

Brit Lit:

A couple of suggested sites:




The Harvard site: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/ .

A resource site for a college course, lots of links:

http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/ENG/wsuwweb/pageindxs/chaucer.htm .

Brit Lit:

Today:

I gave you the first 10 minutes to finish your symbolic representation.  This is 1 part of a 3 part assignment that is due this Friday.  I gave you the assignment sheet for the rest of this project.

We took notes on Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

We defined pilgrimage and I asked you to try and think of an experience that fits the definition.

I broke you into groups of 2, and asked you to detail two Pilgrims from the prologue.  Each group will present these to the class on Tuesday.  the class will take notes based on your presentations, with a quiz to follow.

HW:  Please read pgs 91-112 and answer questions 1-9 on pg 113.