Romeo and Juliet
MONDAY
Review ACT 1
-dramatic reading
-characterization
-3Q discussion
HW Read Act 2, Scenes 1-3 for Thursday
TUESDAY
Types of Love 1/2 sheet
-record evidence to support the 'types of love' evident in the play.
HW Read and finish 1/2 sheet
WEDNESDAY
SSR
#6
THURSDAY
Review Act 2
-The Balcony Scene
--a different interpretation of Juliet
Motifs
-death
-light images
-celestial beings
HW Read Act 2, Scenes 3-6 for Monday
FRIDAY
Movie and review questions
NEXT
character chart
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Weekly Agenda Feb 21-24
Romeo & Juliet
TUESDAY
Read through sonnet drafts
-student samples
Shakespearean Insults
R&J Vocabulary
HW Read R&J Act I, Scenes 1-3 for Thursday
WEDNESDAY
SSR
Journal #5
THURSDAY
Role Play
What are puns, soliloquies, character foils, oxymorons?
Review reading
-looking at language
-characters and relationships
-dramatic readings: voice, tone, delivery
HW READ R&J Act 1, Scenes 4-5 for Monday
FRIDAY
Movie
Questions on Movie
TUESDAY
Read through sonnet drafts
-student samples
Shakespearean Insults
R&J Vocabulary
HW Read R&J Act I, Scenes 1-3 for Thursday
WEDNESDAY
SSR
Journal #5
THURSDAY
Role Play
What are puns, soliloquies, character foils, oxymorons?
Review reading
-looking at language
-characters and relationships
-dramatic readings: voice, tone, delivery
HW READ R&J Act 1, Scenes 4-5 for Monday
FRIDAY
Movie
Questions on Movie
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Weekly Agenda Feb 13-17
Introduction to Shakespeare: Elizabethan Era
MONDAY
Quaker Share excerpts from Vignettes
Timed Writing: Mango Street prompt in your journal
NO HW
TUESDAY & THURSDAY
Get Books
Shakespeare Notes
-life and times
Elizabethan Language Worksheet
MONDAY
Quaker Share excerpts from Vignettes
Timed Writing: Mango Street prompt in your journal
NO HW
TUESDAY & THURSDAY
Get Books
Shakespeare Notes
-life and times
Elizabethan Language Worksheet
- Queen Elizabeth
- Elizabethan Age
- Chain of Being
- Beliefs and Superstitions
- Theater and Performance
- Shakespeare Biography
- Play Structure
- Family Feud and Structure
WEDNESDAY
SSR
#4
FRIDAY
Sonnets
- Types
- Versification: iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme
- Figurative language
- Shakespeare's sonnets
- original sonnet
HW Your Original sonnet is due Tuesday. It must adhere to all sonnet rules. 25pts to writing category.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Weekly Agenda Feb 6-10
The House on Mango Street
MONDAY
Share mimics or original vignettes
Review Collection assignment: DUE MONDAY, FEB 13th.
-look at student models
Review Q's from "Sire
Revisit Influential Women chart
HW see reading schedule
TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY (CAHSEE testing = Block schedule)
"Sally" Look at figurative language
"A Smart Cookie" Chart; What does this vignette say about regret?
"What Sally Said" What is Sally's reality? What happens to children when parent's expectations suffocate?
Writing:
Memory Freewrite
HW see reading schedule; write 2 original vignettes
THURSDAY
Last day to share.
Reading Quiz
"The Monkey Garden" How does this story follow a similar schemes as a rite of passage?
"Red Clowns" Explore the racial implications of this vignette.; How is the moon voyeuristic? What do the "red clowns" represent?
"The Three Sisters" Mythological Allusion: 3 Fates; What does "You must remember to come back. For the ones who cannot leave as easily as you." mean? Analyze.
"A House of My Own" Literary Allusion: Virgina Woolf's A Room of One's Own
HW Work on collection; come in for feedback
FRIDAY
Suspense writing: "Ghost Walk;"
Techniques: the lead, thoughtshots, baby steps, unique perspective.
Ideas: tone, sensory language and imagery
HW Collection due Monday.
NEXT
Journal Entry #3: Timed writing in response to Mango Street prompt.
ROMEO & JULIET
MONDAY
Share mimics or original vignettes
Review Collection assignment: DUE MONDAY, FEB 13th.
-look at student models
Review Q's from "Sire
Revisit Influential Women chart
HW see reading schedule
TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY (CAHSEE testing = Block schedule)
"Sally" Look at figurative language
"A Smart Cookie" Chart; What does this vignette say about regret?
"What Sally Said" What is Sally's reality? What happens to children when parent's expectations suffocate?
Writing:
Memory Freewrite
HW see reading schedule; write 2 original vignettes
THURSDAY
Last day to share.
Reading Quiz
"The Monkey Garden" How does this story follow a similar schemes as a rite of passage?
"Red Clowns" Explore the racial implications of this vignette.; How is the moon voyeuristic? What do the "red clowns" represent?
"The Three Sisters" Mythological Allusion: 3 Fates; What does "You must remember to come back. For the ones who cannot leave as easily as you." mean? Analyze.
"A House of My Own" Literary Allusion: Virgina Woolf's A Room of One's Own
HW Work on collection; come in for feedback
FRIDAY
Suspense writing: "Ghost Walk;"
Techniques: the lead, thoughtshots, baby steps, unique perspective.
Ideas: tone, sensory language and imagery
HW Collection due Monday.
NEXT
Journal Entry #3: Timed writing in response to Mango Street prompt.
ROMEO & JULIET
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