Thursday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. 

Agenda:

1. Shakespeare has unusual patterns to his sentences.
2. We will watch the Globe production of MSND. How does this help you better understand the play?
3. Catch up time
1. Book review #4
2. Vocabulary
3. Start your homework

Success Criteria:

1. I can summarize what is going on at this point in the play.

Homework:

1. Read the rest of 2.1 This link will help you with comprehension. There will be a one question quiz tomorrow.
2. Finish your 4th book of the year this week.
3. Finish the SAT letter G vocabulary list by Monday.

Wednesday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. 

Agenda:

1. Fill out the reading progress form.
2. Paraphrase the entire scene so far, 2.1.1-59 in your English Journals
3. In the same English Journal you started in class, list the tricks that Puck plays on people. 
4. Play this Quizizz about Act 1 to make sure you understand the main ideas. Code: 578154
5. Watch the stage version to help with your comprehension.
6. Your book review is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Success Criteria:

1. I can summarize what is going on at this point in the play.

Homework:

1. Finish your 4th book of the year this week.
2. Finish the SAT letter G vocabulary list by Monday.

Tuesday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.  Your book review is this week.

Agenda:

1. We will discuss your questions from yesterday.
1. Period 1
2. Period 6
2. Shakespeare's rhyme, rhythm, and meter.
1. Tetrameter - strong-weak
2. Pentameter - weak-strong
3. Prose rhythm - 1.2.76-80
3. Acting companies
1. Choose a new director
2. Get Act 2 script
1. read 2.1.32-59 and try to find the rhythm
2. read 2.1.1-59 and figure out the new characters and setting.
3. Paraphrase the entire scene so far, 2.1.1-59 in your English Journals

Success Criteria:

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Homework:

1. In the same English Journal you started in class, list the tricks that Puck plays on people. 
2. Finish your 4th book of the year this week.
3. Finish the SAT letter G vocabulary list by Monday.

Acting Companies

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.  Your book review is this week.

Agenda:

1. SAT letter G vocabulary is due at 50% today.
2. Use the two Shakespeare worksheets below to write a conversation between you and your partner
1. Shakespearean English 1
2. Shakespearean English 2
3. Establishing acting companies
1. Like the rude mechanicals, each of you will be in an acting group.
1. You need a name
2. A regular place to practice
3. A rotation order for directors
4. Acting companies at work
1. You will follow this procedure for reading a new scene
1. round-robin reading to a period, semicolon, colon, or question mark
2. circling words you don't know and agreeing on a definition
3. paraphrasing hard-to-understand phrases into modern English
4. making sense of the scene
2. Try this procedure with 1.1.180-250. This should take around 20 minutes.
3. Post your two best TQEs to the Padlet wall.
1. Period 1
2. Period 6
5. Meet as a whole group to answer questions

Success Criteria:

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Homework:

1.  Finish your 4th book of the year this week.
2. Finish the SAT letter G vocabulary list by Monday.

Friday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Click this timer and read silently for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Go to Google Classroom and complete the A Midsummer Night's Dream gameboard. It is due today.
1. Use this link for the Flipgrid. The link on the game board is incorrect.

Success Criteria:

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Homework:

1.  I will be checking your vocabulary on Monday.

Thursday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. Your next book review is on January 30th.

Agenda:

1. I will be gone tomorrow. I need two volunteers to make sure everything gets put away correctly.
2. Meme the scene
1. With a partner, you will find a meme that matches the lines between Theseus and Hippolyta. 1.1.1-19 Look for pictures with romantic longing. I will choose one meme at random. Two students will read the Theseus and Hippolyta lines.
2. Now we will do a living meme or a tableaux vivant. We will arrange six students to match lines 1.1.20-127. We will need six parts: Egeus and the duke; Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander, and Helena. Other class members will read the lines.
3. Now everyone will leave but Hermia and Lysander. All guys will read Lysander's lines and all the girls will read Hermia's lines, 1.1.130-142. Our Hermia and Lysander will read 1.1.158-181. What are they saying to each other?

Success Criteria:

1. 
   

Homework:

1. Work on your new SAT vocabulary.
2. Tonight read 1.1.130-257. Egeus, Hermia's father, does not like Lysander and tries to stop him from seeing Hermia. If you had a friend who was dating someone that you thought wasn't good for them, what arguments would you present to change their minds.

Catching Up

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form. Today we will read for 10 minutes. Your next book review is on January 30th.

Agenda:

1. Write a summary of Act I scene 2 in your English Journal. This scene is about Quince, Bottom, and practicing the play.
2. Read 1.1.1-127 with a partner. Fill out the MSND graphic organizer. Look for the characters mentioned so far. Who are they trying to control? Why?
3. Add to your earlier summary. What is happening at the beginning of the play?

Success Criteria:

1. 
   

Homework:

1. Work on your new SAT vocabulary.

Tuesday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. Your next book review is on January 30th.

Agenda:

1. I will grade your vocabulary today. Make sure you start letter G. 50% is due on Monday.
2. In your English Journal summarize the scene we finished reading on Friday.
3. Tossing Lines
1. Divide the class into two groups.
2. Do you have a word you can not pronounce or you do not know?
3. Toss the object around the group. When it is thrown to you, you will say your line.
4. Keep going until everyone has said their line two times or more.
5. Everyone will write down as many lines as they can remember.
6. Repeat the previous steps with group 2.
4. Script in your hand.
1. How do we find our place in a Shakespeare text?
2. Act.scene.line = 1.1.25
5. Read around, 1.1.20-127
1. Go around the circle. Each person will read until they reach a period or semicolon.
2. What is Hermia's problem?
3. Egeus' request?
4. The duke's solution?
5. How does the language in this section compare to the scene from yesterday?
6. prose vs. verse

Success Criteria:

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Homework:

1. Work on your new SAT vocabulary.

Friday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: We will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Lecture on Plato's view of the human person to get us ready for reading MSND.
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3. Play map
4. Actor's circle
1. Read a scene from the play We will read through this scene one more time with 10 new actors.
2. Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
3. Questions:
1. Who wrote this play they are going to do?
2. If Quince wrote it, has he written it all himself?
3. Has he adapted some of it?
4. Is it an original story?
5. What do Snug, Snout, Starveling, and Flute think of the play? What do they think of the tension or lak of tension between Quince and Bottom?
6. Why might they be sowquiet during the scene?
7. What are they doing during the scene? Do they want to be in the play?
8. What about their characters?
9. Is Bottom a bully? A loudmouth? An egomaniac? A good actor who wants to help? A leader?
10. Is Snug stupid? Nervous? Slow? A new member of the group? Extremely shy?
11. Is there any poetry in the scene? Is it good or bad poetry?
4. What words do you not understand?
1. For our final read through, we will stage the scene.
1. Where does the scene take place?
2. Entrances and exits: Who should come onstage from where? With whom? Why? Does the text give you a clue?
3. Who's the most important person in the scene? Who thinks he's the most important person in the scene? How do you act it out to show this?
4. How should each character act?
2. The same cast will act out this scene again. What worked? What didn't?
5. Watch a stage version of the same scene (16:31). What did you like?
6. Write a summary of Act I scene 2 in your English Journal.

Success Criteria:

1. I can explain Plato's view of the human person and Cupid's role in mythology.
2. I know what is going on the in the scene from the play we read today.

Homework:

1. Finish SAT letter F.
2. Your next book review is on January 30th.

Thursday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: We will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Lecture on Plato's view of the human person to get us ready for reading MSND.
2. You will look up the role of Cupid in mythology and it this to your notes.
3. Play map
4. Actor's circle
1. Read a scene from the play We will begin by reading through twice.
2. Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
3. Questions:
1. Who are these guys?
2. How do you know?
3. What is going on here? What are these guys up to? How do you know?
4. Do these guys know each other?
5. Who is the boss of the group? How do you know? Who would like to be boss of this group? How do you know?
6. Why are they putting on the play?
4. Now we will read through the scene again. Look for new information. What did you notice that you didn't understand before? What is still confusing?

Success Criteria:

1. I can explain Plato's view of the human person and Cupid's role in mythology.
2. I know what is going on the in the scene from the play we read today.

Homework:

1. Finish SAT letter F.
2. Your next book review is on January 30th.

Wednesday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form. We will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Lecture on Plato's view of the human person to get us ready for reading MSND.
2. You will look up the role of Cupid in mythology and it this to your notes.

Success Criteria:

1. I can explain Plato's view of the human person and Cupid's role in mythology.

Homework:

1. Finish SAT letter F.
2. Your next book review is on January 30th.

Tuesday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for a few minutes at the beginning of the period.

Agenda:

1. Counselor presentation all period.

Success Criteria:

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Homework:

1. Your next book review is on January 30th.
2. You should be finished with SAT letter F.

Monday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Finish working on our portfolios. You will turn in a link to your portfolio on Google classroom. Here are the steps for turning in your portfolio:
1. Click publish
2. Title your website with your name and the word portfolio
3. Click on the icon of a chain to get the link
4. Add the link to the portfolio assignment on Google Classroom

Success Criteria:

1. I can demonstrate what I have learned first semester by creating a website portfolio.

Homework:

1. Finish SAT letter F 100% by Friday.

Final Exam

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: You will read if you finish the final exam early.

Agenda:

1. Final exam today

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
2. I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
3. I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
4. I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
5. I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.
6. I can track what I have learned this year using a website portfolio.

Homework:

1. Finish SAT vocabulary letter F 100%
2. Your next book review is on January 30th.

Website Portfolio Day 2

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Website Portfolio
1. We will continue gathering evidence for our website portfolio. What assignments fit with the different capacities?
2. English Journal
1. We need to get this ready to turn in.
2. You will be graded using this rubric.

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
2. I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
3. I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
4. I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
5. I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.
6. I can track what I have learned this year using a website portfolio.

Homework:

1. You should be reading your fourth book. Your next book review is on January 30th.
2. Finish SAT letter F 100%.

Website Portfolio

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. We will begin bringing our website portfolio up-to-date for the first semester.
1. First, we will add the rest of the Capacities of a Literate Individual.
2. Second, we will look for evidence for each capacity in the work we have done over the semester.
2. We will also look at our English Journals and bring them up-to-date and get to have them graded.

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
2. I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
3. I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
4. I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
5. I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.
6. I can track what I have learned this year using a website portfolio.

Homework:

1. Work on your SAT F vocabulary.

Getting caught up

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Today we will read for ten minutes.

Agenda:

1. Grade your vocabulary. You should be finished with SAT F at 50%.
2. Work on your third book review. It will be due by Friday.
3. Study for the final exam on Friday. You can watch videos to help you review any concepts.

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
2. I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
3. I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
4. I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
5. I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.

Homework:

1. Work on finishing SAT letter F. You should be at 100% by Monday.
2. Start reading your fourth book of the year. Your next book review will be on January 30th.

Welcome back!

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form.

Agenda:

1. Snowball activity
1. On a piece of paper write the following sentence starter: WHEN IT COMES TO THIS SEMESTER IN FRONT OF ME, MY #1 SINGLE BIGGEST SOURCE OF ANXIETY IS . . .
2. Now crumple up your paper and let the fun begin.
2. Ongoing conversations
1. This semester we are going to talk to a lot more of our classmates. We are all going to help each other learn.
2. Each of you will receive a conversation tracker. Each of you must talk to 75% of the students in class over the next three weeks.
3. You will track who you talk to and what you talk about.
3. Letter of Understanding
   
4. Work on your vocabulary. When should I check it?

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
2. I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
3. I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.

Homework:

1. Get some sleep
2. Finish SAT vocabulary letter F
3. Finish your third book of the year.