READING SCHEDULE, due Friday, Nov 14th, ACT 1, scenes 1-3;
Monday, Nov 17th, ACT 1, scenes 4-5; Thursday, Nov 20th, ACT 2, scenes 1-3;
Monday, Nov 24th, ACT 2, scenes 4-6
Monday, Dec 1st, ACTs 3 and 4; READING QUIZ Friday, Dec 5th ACT 5 For each act note metaphors, motifs, figurative language.
WEEK 1: 11.17
|
WEEK 2: 11.24
|
WEEK 3: 12.1
|
WEEK 4: 12.8
|
Shakespeare Life and Times
-Elizabethan Era
--Chain of Being
--Beliefs and Superstitions
--Theater and Performance
--Elizabethan Language
-Biography
Sonnets
-background/history
-themes
-rhyme and meter
Original Sonnet due 12.1
Shakespearean Insults
-prepare
Romeo and Juliet
-Vocabulary QUIZ 11.21
-setting/background
ACT 1, scene 1
-dramatic reading
TERMS-pun, soliloquy, conceit, oxymoron, malapropism, irony
Character Squares Assignment
-character chart, too
DUE 12.10
|
Romeo and Juliet
ACT 1 Review
-characterization
ACT 2 Review
-Queen Mab
-”He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
-Balcony Scene
--dramatic reading
--imagery motif of Juliet
---light, celestial bodies, animal, death
WEDNESDAY (minimum day)
Independent Book Projects
-options, examples
-book report requirement
DUE date of FINAL, with group work day DEC 15th
THANKSGIVING BREAK
|
Romeo and Juliet
Sonnet Quaker Share
Finish Review ACT 2
-Juliet as empowered female
--insists upon her own terms
--goes against parents
--loves the enemy
--J handler, R bird
-translate Friar Soliloquy
Review ACT 3
-irony
-Mercutio Language and meaning
-Types of Love
-Character Chart Check In
Review ACT 4 -Reading Quiz
-Are R&J in love with death?
TWO WORLDS
--R is romantic; love is a vehicle, fate controls him; “Fortune’s Foil;” pre-party vision
--J defies tradition and parents; forbidden love; controls own destiny; death is an escape; death becomes her suitor
-(3.5.98-), (4.3.15-)
MOVIE
|
Romeo and Juliet
ACT 5 Review
-Fate versus Human error
-the ending!
WATCH end of MOVIE/PLAY
Thesis: Juliet is fearless because she gets strength from righteous love.
Work on Character Squares
Book Test 12.11 & 12.12
REMINDER:
Independent Book Projects
-options, examples
-book report requirement
DUE date of FINAL, with group work day DEC 15th
|
Vocabulary QUIZ 11.21; Original Sonnet due 12.1; Character Squares due 12.10; Independent Projects due 12.15
