Monday, March 29, 2010

Portrait

Tomorrow we will discuss the passages students received today. Bring in your sentences analyzing the passages.

Students are to read through part 2 by Wednesday.

Friday, March 26, 2010

A Portrait of Multiple Choice

Students are to complete the multiple choice packet they received on Thursday and read Part 1 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for Monday.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Hamlet

Students are to finish reading Hamlet for tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Hamlet

Students received another packet, with multiple choice and a passage analysis essay on Hamlet, due Tuesday 3/23.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Poetry Forms/Hamlet

Students are currently working on the presentations for the following project:

Poetry
Form/Pattern
Group Assignment
30pts

Your assignment is to examine a specific form of poetry. You must provide a clear explanation for the rest of the class including examples. You have to teach this. You must decide on your approach (handouts, PowerPoint, poster, etc.). You must also turn in a completed lesson plan prior to your lesson.


You must provide a poem for class discussion. Your group will lead the discussion of the poem. This includes asking questions that guide the class discussion. Be prepared with specific discussion questions. You are the expert on the poem, but you must teach it, not explain it. Your goal is to analyze the poem and how the form impacts the meaning of the poem. Your classmates will decide if you are effective. All students must participate in the discussion. It is your job to see to this.

Forms:
• English Sonnet
• Italian Sonnet
• Villanelle
• Ballad
• Ode
• Sestina


Students also received a packet of work on the first 2 acts of Hamlet which is due Wednesday.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Macbeth

Period 6 is currently viewing the film version of Macbeth.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Richard III essay

The following is due Friday 3/5:
Unlike the novelist, the writer of a play does not use his own voice and only rarely uses a narrator’s voice to guide the audience’s response to character and action.

Select a play you have read and write an essay in which you explain the techniques the playwright uses to guide his audience’s responses to the central characters in the action.

You might consider the effect on the audience of things like setting, the use of comparable and contrasting characters, and the characters’ responses to each other. Support your argument with specific references to the play. Do not give a plot summary.

You MUST select one of the following:

Richard III
Richard III Part II: Bow To Klimasthocles