Brit Lit:

Today:

Small groups:  Shoe acts 1-4 without using words.  Each event must be shown.  Your group grade will be based on effort and showing all major plot points.

Sounds easy?  You also need to do this backwards .......and exactly 42 sec.......

We began act 5 sc 1

We rook a quiz on act 4/start of 5.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We continued work on your Taming of the Shrew movie version.  At this point, each group should have begun filming.

Brit Lit:

Today we watched the Polanski ver of Macbeth up to act V

Shakespeare:

Taming of the Shrew Movie projects:

Filming day 2.

Brit Lit.

Today:

Journal.  Please explain how you think the three new prophesies will resolve the play in act V.  Use your imagination......                                               1pg

We watched your Macbeth movie projects.  For those choosing to complete the alternative assignment, please have those for Monday.  I will post samples here....

A block worked on the end of act IV

Shakespeare:

Today:  Workday #1 on film project.

Objectives for today:

Have script typed and complete.

Read thru script at least once.

Use the blocking sheets to imagine how you plan to film this BEFORE you film.  These are required and will result in a better project.

Discuss costumes

We looked at a tutorial on imovie.

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal:  Please describe a time that you were very suspicious of someone or something but you were wrong.  1/2 pg

We broke into small groups to complete the following assignments:

#1 I asked you to design the set for the scene to show that we are now in a different location (England).  This could be a description or drawing.

#2  Suspicion of McDuff.  Please answer the ten lines that I gave you questioning Macduff's motives and answer these as McDuff.

#3 Some say Shakespeare was a secret Catholic.  Please look at the first two pages of the scene and see if you can identify the Christian images.

We acted out the scene to end class.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We broke into our groups and had the 2nd day to write your modern Taming of the Shrew script.  We will begin filming Wed.  Please communicate with your group if you are absent.  Remember, this is a group project.

Brit Lit.:

Today:

Journal:  In the 1st person, please write from the perspective of Fleance.  What would he write about the recent events?    1 pg

We acted out act IV sc1+2

We took notes on act 3

We took a quiz on act 3.  Please see me if you were abs.

Shakespeare:

Today:

Day 1 of 2: script for movie project.  Must include 10 characters, based in HS, show each scene and act, and above all else, be a comedy.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We finished your Macbeth Movie Projects.  The following are due:

Typed script
Storyboards outlining your ideas.
Evaluation sheet
5 min. movie.

I am afterschool this thursday for any group needing more time.

Shakespeare:

We finished Taming of the Shrew
We broke into groups and began work on the project generating three ideas.

Brit Lit:

Today:

Macbeth Film project workday:

Finish script (typed)
Storyboard needed shots
Film
edit in iMovie on the ipads.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We looked at the cast of characters in the play.

We finished Taming of the Shrew.

I assigned project due dates and answered questions.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We began looking at gross things in 2017.  I asked you to create a gross stew list of 20 ingediants.

We the began act IV and discussed if Shakespeare's gross holds up 430 years after.

You filled out responsibility sheets for your Macbeth project.  We also began work on a rough storyboard.  This will help you tremendously in organizing what you need to film Friday.

I gave you some time for those that are anticipating a group member being absent Friday.

Shakespeare:

Today:  We took the Othello test

Brit Lit:

Today:

We broke into groups and began working on your scripts for the Macbeth Movie project.

Shakespeare:

Today:

Journal:  You are a detective struggling to piece together the murder scene in act V.  Please write a police report detailing what happened.  Please make sure to include at least 3 character interviews.

We downloaded iMovie and worked on making Othello movie trailers to review the play. 

Both of these were meant to review the play.  Test Tuesday.  You may outline your essay questions.  I gave you these before vacation.

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal:  Please describe what you did over break.  How did you use your Macbeth lines?  What was the outcome?     1pg

I assigned the Macbeth movie project. 

We learned how to use iMovie on the ipad.

We broke into groups and selected your scene.

We began work on your script.  This is due at the end of class on Wed.  You will have class time to work on it.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We finished O.

I gave you a review sheet for Othello:

Othello Essay Questions ( 50 points)

CPA:  Please answer one essay question.  H:  Please answer 2 of the following questions.

Please consider one line that if taken out of the play, would change the play completely.  What line would you remove?  Please explain everything that it would alter.

Please describe in detail Act 5 of the play.  Your focus should be on how all conflicts were resolved.  What conflicts were left open?  You should also examine the main 5 characters and detail what happens to each at the end of the play as part of your answer.

Iago is a complex and interesting character.  Please examine his actions throughout the play and discuss how he successfully set up all of the main characters in the play.

If you had to remove 4 parts of the play that would not alter the main story, what parts would you remove and why?

Test on Tuesday.  Review on Monday.  You may outline your essay and use these notes on the test.

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal:  You have an unlimited budget to cast a modern version of Macbeth.  Please consider casting actors that would have a modern appeal to younger audiences.  You may do this as a list, but please explain in detail as to WHY you selected each person.

We talked about the Macbeth curse:
http://www.sciencechannel.com/video-topics/sci-fi-supernatural/curses-curse-of-macbeth/

HW:  Please use the lines that you memorized in a unique situation and be ready to write about it after vacation.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We finished our unit on Othello watching the modern HS re-telling in the movie O.

Brit Lit.:

Today:

Journal:  Please describe your unexpected 1/2 day yesterday in great detail.   1/2 page

We put the finishing touches on your 20 question Kahoots! quiz.

We played the best ones.

We started act III

Macbeth Trump

Download Attachment

Available until May 11, 2017

Shakespeare:

Today:

Journal:  In act IV sc 2 we learn that Desdemona's father has passed away.  Please write a one page letter that he sends to his daughter on his deathbed.                               1 pg

Pg 206:  Four photographs assignment.

I passed out permission forms for the movie O.

We watched the final death scene and talked about the impact of making it a slow drawn out death.

HW:  Finish the play

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal:  Macbeth goes back to receive 3 new prophecies in act IV.  What do you think these will predict?  How will each specifically effect the events in the play.  Please explain in detail    1pg

We finished the Macbeth lines, including the Cusick Challenges.  Props to Dawson and his Trump impersonation.

We broke into small groups to review act 1+2.  Each group used Kahoots! to make a review game.  Req: 20 questions, mult choice.  For each, please include a picture or video to make your question more interesting.  We played the best ones.

Shakespeare:

Today:

Journal:  What are your thoughts on black and white love relationships?  1/2 pg

Storytime:  We sat on the floor and shared your Othello Origin Children's story.

We acted act IV and played freeze pop.  With the tivo dvr remote, you paused the action.

Quiz on act 4 if time

HW act V sc 1+2.  Finish play for wed. 

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal:  Please describe the experience of learning lines of Shakespeare.  What worked for you?  What was the hardest part?   Why are you not ready to go today?  1/2 page

We recited our 10 Macbeth lines.  -10 each day not ready.  This is a test grade.  One free line if you get stuck.

We finished act 2 and completed notes for the act.

We took a quiz on act 2.

Shakespeare:

We went to the art and science show to support our classmates.

Brit Lit:

Today:  I passed back all of your term 3 assignments.

A Block:  We supported the art/science show.

C Block:  We looked at a modern version with a much older Macbeth:
https://vimeo.com/147219363

HW:  Lines due Monday!

Shakespeare assignment: Production stills

Shakespeare:

Today:

We started class looking at the PBS special on Othello
 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/shakespeare-uncovered/uncategorized/othello-david-harewood-full-episode/

This explored the controversy of having a true person of color playing Othello.

I broke you into small groups and gave you an ipad.  Each group needed to use the camera to take 4 production photos from Othello.

We displayed these via the apple tv to the class.

We started act IV sc 1.

HW (due Thursday): read act 4 sc 1+2.  Please be ready for a quiz on Thursday.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We defined the following terms:
Personification, metaphor, simile, reverse word, reverse sentence construction, reversed question.

These are Shakespeare's special effects- but they are also the things that make him often hard to understand.

With a partner, I asked you to identify 2 examples of each using anything that we have read in the play so far.

Last 15 min we watched the Polanski version of Macbeth.  For you next prompt, you will need to compare and contrast the two very different film versions.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We went to the lab and used the web site.  www.storyboardthat.com to tell the story of act 1-3 in comic form.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We went to the computer lab and went to www.storyboardthat.com With a partner, you needed to tell the story in comic version up to the death of Duncan.

HW:  Learn those lines!  Due next Monday

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

Shakespeare:

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

Brit Lit:

Today:  We watched Shakespeare in Love.

FLM

Feels Like Monday just posted three new episodes!  Check it: http://feelslikemonday.com

Shakespeare:

Today:

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Funny

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/donald-trump-performs-shakespeares-soliloquies

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.

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

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!!!!!!!

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

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.

Shakespeare:

Today:

Journal:  Please re-read where we left off in the play (142).  In script form, please write what happens next.  This can be modern or classic in style.  Please use 4 of the Shakespeare language tricks that we covered and underline each of these.     H= 3pgs CPS= 2 pgs

I introduced you to Hamlet, the video game on the ipads.  We played through the first level.

We almost finished act 3.

HW:  Please finish act 3 and review.  I smell a quiz Friday.....

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal:  Imagine that you could sit down to dinner with any 3 people- alive, dead or fictional.  Please come up with 3 topics to discuss around the table and write the conversation.  H=3 pgs CPA=2 pgs

We watched a Twilight Zone episode that is based on the morality play Everyman.

I gave you the essay portion of the test tomorrow:

Essay questions (30 pts.) H= 3  CPA=2

1.       Choose 5 of the elements of the Hero’s Journey and explain how one of the works of literature that we read follows this model. You will be graded on your specific examples.

2.       One of the main reasons we study literature from different cultures and different times is to learn about the people who wrote these stories down. Choose three values you can identify from any of the stories/ballads that we have read during this unit and show how the story illustrates those values. Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

3.        Please write an original morality play that has symbolic character names and a moral lesson at the end.

4.       Sir Gawain faces many challenges on his journey.  Please discuss three of these in detail.

5.       Some say Chivalry is dead; but in the early works that we looked at, it is very much alive.  Please define the term and explain how 3 characters demonstrate chivalry in one of the works of literature covered.  Please give specific examples to support your opinion.

HW:  Use study guide and review for the test Friday on Unit 1.

Shakespeare:

Today:

Journal:  What actors' would you cast in a modern revival of Hamlet?  For each person cast, please explain what they would bring to the part.  Why would you cast them?

We finished making our Kahoots! review game for Act 1-2

I assigned the next project:

Assignment #1: Hamlet: Grief Session

Directions:  You are a psychiatrist and have begun counseling a new patient recently.  In a 500 word min., two- three page typed paper, please file a report on your findings.  Please use specific examples from Acts 1-4 to support you end recommendations.  You are required to look at all of his soliloquies and dialogue, which should be used as direct conversations given in his therapy sessions.

Please follow the following rubric:

1.)  Start with an opening paragraph which needs to state your overall opinion of Hamlet’s mental state.                                                                           20 points

2.)  In your body, please detail textual examples which support your thesis.   

40 points

3.)  Please end with a final paragraph restating your diagnosis.  Please end your report with your recommendations.                                                                        20 points

4.)  Paper is typed, with proper grammar and punctuation                 20 points        

We continued to look for textual evidence. 

Brit Lit:

Today:

Journal:  You can only save three lines from all of the works that we have covered.  For each please explain why each line was important enough to save.    1/2 pg

I gave you time to finish your test review game on Kahoots!

I gave you a study guide for the test:

Please review the following:

Creation Stories

Hero’s Journey

Oral Tradition

Epic poetry

Caesura

Kenning

Ballad

Folk Ballad

Life of Chaucer

Symbolism

Direct and indirect characterization

All the characters from the C. Tales

Morality Plays

Medieval Romance

Stories/poems/ballads:

The Seafarer, Sir Patrick Spens, Get up and Bar the Door, The Twa Corbies, Barbara Allan, Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Everyman

Shakespeare:

Today:

Journal:  Why do you think that Hamlet treats Ophelia so badly?  Please find three piece of textual evidence to support your opinion.                                                       1/2 page.

We revisited the Kahoots! review game and warmed up with a practice quiz on act 2.

I broke you into small groups and asked you to make a 20 question Kahoots! quiz on anything covered so far in this course: Notes, video, the play itself.  Extra credit to those that use video/pictures.

We played the best ones.

Brit Lit:

Today:

We read Everyman on pg 142.

Journal:  Please explain what the moral lesson is at the end of the morality play.  Do you agree?  1/2 pg

Kahoots!  I introduced you to this online review game.

In small groups, I asked you to create a 20 questions Kahoots! quiz based on material covered in the first unit.  One of the 20 can be a random, fun question.

We played the best games.

Shakespeare:

Today:

Journal:  How do you think Hamlet might get his revenge without killing his uncle?  H= 1 pg CPA= 1/2 pg

We looked at the stages of grief.  I gave you a worksheet on this and asked you with a partner to find specific lines that show each stage.

We continued act 3

Brit Lit:

Today:

We read and defined Morality plays on pgs 140-141

I showed you the morality rap:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=morality+plays&tbm=vid&start=10&*

Journal:  Write a short morality play that shows:
A Fight for your soul
Conflict between good and evil
Simple names that describe what they are
You must dramatize one of the two:  Honest ids the best policy or Haste makes waste
CPA= 2 pgs  H= 3 pgs

We broke into groups and I asked you to select the best play and then perform it in front of the class.

HW:  Please have your Sir Gawain assignment completed.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We started with the prompt from yesterday.  Please see post.

We watched the Mel Gibson ver of the play within a play in Hamlet.

We broke into small groups and were tasked with showing act 1+2.....backwards.....in 32 seconds....

Brit Lit:

Today:

We went to the computer lab to finish work on your Sir Gawain project.  Reminder:  These are due Tuesday.

Shakespeare:

Today:

We looked at the Mel Gibson version and I asked you to look for the many differences.

I passed back past quizzes.

Brit Lit:

Today:  We went to the 2nd floor lab to work on your Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Video Game project.