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

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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.