Today:
We wrapped up Hamlet
We watched the Simpson's take on the play. Now you get all the jokes. Isn't education awesome?
Some of you elected to use this time to make up your test from yesterday.
Reminder- Id you were not here Thursday, it is your responsibility to schedule a time to make up. For your planning, I will be after school on Monday and Thursday of next week. Please see me ASAP to arrange the make-up.
We voted to do Othello next and I passed out books.
We finished the Mel Gibbson version
Friday, March 24, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Shakespeare:
Today:
We took the Hamlet essay exam. You had the block to use your notes and script to answer your essay selections.
We took the Hamlet essay exam. You had the block to use your notes and script to answer your essay selections.
Brit Lit:
Today:
I collected your journals (#11-20)
We watched Why Shakespeare? (15 min doc)
We broke into groups of 2 and you interviewed your partner questions from the anticipation activity.
C Block took the quiz based on the intro notes given on the Globe and Shakespeare.
We continued in the play Act 1-2.
I collected your journals (#11-20)
We watched Why Shakespeare? (15 min doc)
We broke into groups of 2 and you interviewed your partner questions from the anticipation activity.
C Block took the quiz based on the intro notes given on the Globe and Shakespeare.
We continued in the play Act 1-2.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Shakespeare:
Today:
We acted out the end of the play.
We began reviewing for the test on Thursday
I broke you into groups and asked you to make 15 review questions, with 4 mult. choice.
I am collecting Journals Wed.
We acted out the end of the play.
We began reviewing for the test on Thursday
I broke you into groups and asked you to make 15 review questions, with 4 mult. choice.
I am collecting Journals Wed.
Brit Lit.
Today:
Journal: Please describe in detail your experience with Shakespeare/acting. 1/2 pg
I gave you intro note on Shakespeare
We used the ipads and toured the Globe in 360. We then shared the information learned.
I gave you a list of insults and explained some of them. Each of you were paired against another student in an insult fight.
I passed out the "Scottish play."
Journal: Please describe in detail your experience with Shakespeare/acting. 1/2 pg
I gave you intro note on Shakespeare
We used the ipads and toured the Globe in 360. We then shared the information learned.
I gave you a list of insults and explained some of them. Each of you were paired against another student in an insult fight.
I passed out the "Scottish play."
Monday, March 20, 2017
Shakespeare:
Today:
Journal: Please write a one pg letter from Ophelia explaining her suicide. Please consider three different problems.
Hamlet talk show: I gave you 15 min to come up with an idea for a talk show that uses the cast of Hamlet. Each group was asked to: Make a script, include at least 4 characters, costumes, and perform these for the class.
Act V: Resolution, or everyone marries or dies.... HW: Please finish act 4 if needed and read Act V act 1.
I collected you papers. Reminder -10 each day if passed in after 3 today.
Journal: Please write a one pg letter from Ophelia explaining her suicide. Please consider three different problems.
Hamlet talk show: I gave you 15 min to come up with an idea for a talk show that uses the cast of Hamlet. Each group was asked to: Make a script, include at least 4 characters, costumes, and perform these for the class.
Act V: Resolution, or everyone marries or dies.... HW: Please finish act 4 if needed and read Act V act 1.
I collected you papers. Reminder -10 each day if passed in after 3 today.
Brit Lit.:
Today:
Journal #19: Please write a short poem on all of the following in 3 separate poems: Love, Hate, Hope.
We broke into your groups from Friday and you presented your poet to the class via the ipads.
We finished looking at the poems in the big book. Today we looked at Marlowe, and Sir Walter Raleigh
We looked at two sonnets from Sir Walter Raleigh to his love Stella. As Stella either: write a one pg response, or write a 14 line response sonnet.
Journal #19: Please write a short poem on all of the following in 3 separate poems: Love, Hate, Hope.
We broke into your groups from Friday and you presented your poet to the class via the ipads.
We finished looking at the poems in the big book. Today we looked at Marlowe, and Sir Walter Raleigh
We looked at two sonnets from Sir Walter Raleigh to his love Stella. As Stella either: write a one pg response, or write a 14 line response sonnet.
Friday, March 17, 2017
Shakespeare:
Today:
Journal: I played 5 strange sound effects that I asked you to incorporate into where we are in the story of Hamlet.
We went to the lib to work on your Hamlet paper. Reminder: These are due on Monday. Due to the nature of the paper, please print out and do not use turn it in.
Journal: I played 5 strange sound effects that I asked you to incorporate into where we are in the story of Hamlet.
We went to the lib to work on your Hamlet paper. Reminder: These are due on Monday. Due to the nature of the paper, please print out and do not use turn it in.
Brit Lit.:
Today:
Journal: What has been your experience with poetry? Please write a 20 line poem based on FEELING.
We looked at the poems of: Donne, Johnson, Herrick, Sir J. Suckling (worst name ever), and Richard Lovelace.
I broke you into rows. With the ipads, you were each assigned a poet and asked to present to the class: Brief Bio, 4 pictures of poet, found fav. poem. We presented these to the class.
I passed back you video game manuals.
Journal: What has been your experience with poetry? Please write a 20 line poem based on FEELING.
We looked at the poems of: Donne, Johnson, Herrick, Sir J. Suckling (worst name ever), and Richard Lovelace.
I broke you into rows. With the ipads, you were each assigned a poet and asked to present to the class: Brief Bio, 4 pictures of poet, found fav. poem. We presented these to the class.
I passed back you video game manuals.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Shakespeare:
Today:
Journal: Hamlet is chock full of problems. Please examine 3 other characters as of Act IV sc2 and detail their issues. 1/2 page
We reviewed act IV sc 1+2
I moved the due date for your Hamlet paper to this Monday.
We will have Friday as a full work day in the computer lab. I will also be available for extra help if you are having difficulty finding textual evidence for each of the stages of grief.
We broke into small groups and shared the examples found. By the end of class you should have an example for each stage.
With a partner, you made a fake Facebook page for any character in the play. Each group needed to post 5 things to their wall and leave space for reply's.
HW: Read/listen/watch act 4 sc 3+4+5 for Friday.
Journal: Hamlet is chock full of problems. Please examine 3 other characters as of Act IV sc2 and detail their issues. 1/2 page
We reviewed act IV sc 1+2
I moved the due date for your Hamlet paper to this Monday.
We will have Friday as a full work day in the computer lab. I will also be available for extra help if you are having difficulty finding textual evidence for each of the stages of grief.
We broke into small groups and shared the examples found. By the end of class you should have an example for each stage.
With a partner, you made a fake Facebook page for any character in the play. Each group needed to post 5 things to their wall and leave space for reply's.
HW: Read/listen/watch act 4 sc 3+4+5 for Friday.
Brit Lit.:
Today:
Journal: Please describe in 1 page what you did during your 2 days off from school. Please focus on 3 events. Please use indirect characterization in your description.
We took a quiz on The English Renaissance from your HW reading.
We finished the movie on Queen Elizabeth
Journal: Please describe in 1 page what you did during your 2 days off from school. Please focus on 3 events. Please use indirect characterization in your description.
We took a quiz on The English Renaissance from your HW reading.
We finished the movie on Queen Elizabeth
Monday, March 13, 2017
Brit Lit:
Today:
We began our look at the impact Queen Elizabeth had on our next time period. Some would argue, that modern entertainment as we know it, would not exist if she did not love attending plays.
We watched the movie: Queen Elizabeth.
HW please read pgs 160-168 in your anthology. Quiz whenever we come back to school. THINK SNOW BLIZZARD!!!!!!!
We began our look at the impact Queen Elizabeth had on our next time period. Some would argue, that modern entertainment as we know it, would not exist if she did not love attending plays.
We watched the movie: Queen Elizabeth.
HW please read pgs 160-168 in your anthology. Quiz whenever we come back to school. THINK SNOW BLIZZARD!!!!!!!
Shakespeare:
Much of the Lion King follows the story of Hamlet. So much in fact, that scenes were changed to prevent it from being obvious.
We watched The Lion King
Journal: Please describe 3 ways in detail that the story of the Lion King follows the story of Hamlet.
HW: Read act IV sc 1+2
We watched The Lion King
Journal: Please describe 3 ways in detail that the story of the Lion King follows the story of Hamlet.
HW: Read act IV sc 1+2
Thursday, March 9, 2017
EMULATION OF HAMLET’S THIRD SOLILOQUY
To snooze or not to snooze – that is the question:
Whether ’tis easier to rise on time
And face the harsh light of early day,
Or to stay huddled under the quilt,
And, by hiding, avoid the rays.
To rise, to hit the snooze button—
No more – and by rising to say I face
The early-morning preparations for the events
That each day holds—
’Tis a situation
I do not wish to face.
To snooze, to sleep—
To sleep, perhaps too long. Ay, there’s the problem,
For in oversleeping what events may come about
When we are hiding from the alarm’s harsh call
Must make us stop and think.
That’s the idea
That makes disaster of sleeping in.
For who really wants to face the 6 a.m. sun,
The first period’s quiz,
The morning person’s obnoxious cheeriness,
The disappointment in decaffeinated coffee,
The dance class’s early rehearsals,
The overly chipper song of the early bird,
And the cold looks
That early-risers send in my late-sleeping direction,
When they too may sleep in
On weekends free from tribulations?
Who would heed the alarm’s early call,
To squint and yawn through the first hours of the day,
But that the horror that something may be missed while dozing,
The unknown events that have occurred which
The gossips discuss
While we stand in a confused daze,
Wishing we had risen on time
Instead of seeking those futile thirty minutes?
Thus the chance of missing out does make early risers of us all,
And thus the bliss of sleeping in
Is tainted by eye-opening thoughts of lost news,
And peaceful moments of dreams and sleep
With this regard their paths are cut short
And lose the dark in favor of the harsh light.
To snooze or not to snooze – that is the question:
Whether ’tis easier to rise on time
And face the harsh light of early day,
Or to stay huddled under the quilt,
And, by hiding, avoid the rays.
To rise, to hit the snooze button—
No more – and by rising to say I face
The early-morning preparations for the events
That each day holds—
’Tis a situation
I do not wish to face.
To snooze, to sleep—
To sleep, perhaps too long. Ay, there’s the problem,
For in oversleeping what events may come about
When we are hiding from the alarm’s harsh call
Must make us stop and think.
That’s the idea
That makes disaster of sleeping in.
For who really wants to face the 6 a.m. sun,
The first period’s quiz,
The morning person’s obnoxious cheeriness,
The disappointment in decaffeinated coffee,
The dance class’s early rehearsals,
The overly chipper song of the early bird,
And the cold looks
That early-risers send in my late-sleeping direction,
When they too may sleep in
On weekends free from tribulations?
Who would heed the alarm’s early call,
To squint and yawn through the first hours of the day,
But that the horror that something may be missed while dozing,
The unknown events that have occurred which
The gossips discuss
While we stand in a confused daze,
Wishing we had risen on time
Instead of seeking those futile thirty minutes?
Thus the chance of missing out does make early risers of us all,
And thus the bliss of sleeping in
Is tainted by eye-opening thoughts of lost news,
And peaceful moments of dreams and sleep
With this regard their paths are cut short
And lose the dark in favor of the harsh light.
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