Brit Lit:

Today:

Sorry, no Shakespeare in the snow activity today :-(

Instead, we broke into small groups and made a facebook page for any character in Macbeth.  You needed at least three quotes on your wall from the text.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We defined Pathos, ethos, and logos

We broke into small groups and made 3 different fictional commercials using each of the three terms for a single product.  We guessed for each and passed this in.

We broke into small groups and found examples of each in act 3

Journal:  Please use all three forms of persuasion to explain to me the grade that you feel that you deserve in this class for term 3.  1/2 pg.

30 Rock based an entire episode on the Macbeth Curse:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4w5wzm/

Shakespeare:

Today:

We reviewed your HW (act 3 sc2-3)

We watched Othello on film

I passed back journals #11-20

We played a very unsuccessful round of Kahoots.

I broke you into groups by row and asked you to find an aside in the play, and recreate it as a Shakespearean manikin challenge, with a twist of an aside.  Each person is frozen from the scene, as one person steps out and gives an aside.  We filmed these on the ipads and will watch them in class Friday.

HW:  Finish act 3

Brit Lit:

Today:

I passed journals #11-20 back.

A block completed the paradox/equivocation worksheet.

We watched the 2016 version of Macbeth up to the death of Duncan

C Block:  Journal #21:  Please write a movie review from the perspective of a person that has read the play.  What was good, what was not so good?   1/2 page.

Reminder:  Learn those ten lines!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYyxSkeSOXA

Shakespeare:

We reviewed act 2 and I answered any questions.

We took a quiz on act 2.

Shakespeare Monkey on your back.  I broke you into small groups and asked you to select a 2-3 page scene from act 2.  The person on the back of another student(monkey) reads the lines, and the other person acts it out.

We performed these.

HW: Read act III sc 1+2

Brit Lit:

Today:

The killing of a king:  we acted out and performed the scene that we wanted the most- The Killing of Duncan.

We defined Paradox and Equivocation.

In small groups we answered questions based on examples of both in the play.

Shakespeare:

Today:

I collected your HW asking you to find jealousy in the 4 sonnets given.

We finished act 1.

We took a quiz on act 1

I broke you into groups and asked you to cast the play with modern people that the class would know.

HW:  Read act 2

Brit Lit:

Today:

We finished up the Macbeth lines that you converted into the challenge that your row was given.

We finished Act 1 in class.

We took notes on Act 1 and took a quiz.

If time: Please give each of the 7 acts a title/name to suggests what is going to happen in the scene in a dramatic and interesting way.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We looked at jealousy. Specifically, I asked you to identify the theme of jealousy in 4 of his sonnets.

We talked about the portrayal of Othello in the play by looking at all of the words used to describe him in the play.

We began the play acting out sc 1

Brit Lit:

Today:

I continued to collect late journals.

We finished Shakespeare in love

We converted the following lines into modern English:

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

We acted out act 1 sc 2