Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. Your book review is this week.
Agenda:
- We will discuss your questions from yesterday.
- Period 1
- Period 6
- Shakespeare's rhyme, rhythm, and meter.
- Tetrameter - strong-weak
- Pentameter - weak-strong
- Prose rhythm - 1.2.76-80
- Acting companies
- Choose a new director
- Get Act 2 script
- read 2.1.32-59 and try to find the rhythm
- read 2.1.1-59 and figure out the new characters and setting.
- Paraphrase the entire scene so far, 2.1.1-59 in your English Journals
Success Criteria:
Homework:
- In the same English Journal you started in class, list the tricks that Puck plays on people.
- Finish your 4th book of the year this week.
- Finish the SAT letter G vocabulary list by Monday.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. Your book review is this week.
Agenda:
- SAT letter G vocabulary is due at 50% today.
- Use the two Shakespeare worksheets below to write a conversation between you and your partner
- Shakespearean English 1
- Shakespearean English 2
- Establishing acting companies
- Like the rude mechanicals, each of you will be in an acting group.
- You need a name
- A regular place to practice
- A rotation order for directors
- Acting companies at work
- You will follow this procedure for reading a new scene
- round-robin reading to a period, semicolon, colon, or question mark
- circling words you don't know and agreeing on a definition
- paraphrasing hard-to-understand phrases into modern English
- making sense of the scene
- Try this procedure with 1.1.180-250. This should take around 20 minutes.
- Post your two best TQEs to the Padlet wall.
- Period 1
- Period 6
- Meet as a whole group to answer questions
Success Criteria:
Homework:
- Finish your 4th book of the year this week.
- Finish the SAT letter G vocabulary list by Monday.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Click this timer and read silently for 10 minutes.
Agenda:
- Go to Google Classroom and complete the A Midsummer Night's Dream gameboard. It is due today.
- Use this link for the Flipgrid. The link on the game board is incorrect.
Success Criteria:
Homework:
- I will be checking your vocabulary on Monday.
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:
- I will be gone tomorrow. I need two volunteers to make sure everything gets put away correctly.
- Meme the scene
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
Homework:
- Work on your new SAT vocabulary.
- 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.
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:
- I will grade your vocabulary today. Make sure you start letter G. 50% is due on Monday.
- In your English Journal summarize the scene we finished reading on Friday.
- Tossing Lines
- Divide the class into two groups.
- Do you have a word you can not pronounce or you do not know?
- Toss the object around the group. When it is thrown to you, you will say your line.
- Keep going until everyone has said their line two times or more.
- Everyone will write down as many lines as they can remember.
- Repeat the previous steps with group 2.
- Script in your hand.
- How do we find our place in a Shakespeare text?
- Act.scene.line = 1.1.25
- Read around, 1.1.20-127
- Go around the circle. Each person will read until they reach a period or semicolon.
- What is Hermia's problem?
- Egeus' request?
- The duke's solution?
- How does the language in this section compare to the scene from yesterday?
- prose vs. verse
Success Criteria:
Homework:
- Work on your new SAT vocabulary.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: We will read for 10 minutes.
Agenda:
- Lecture on Plato's view of the human person to get us ready for reading MSND.
- Play map
- Actor's circle
- Read a scene from the play We will read through this scene one more time with 10 new actors.
- Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
- Questions:
- Who wrote this play they are going to do?
- If Quince wrote it, has he written it all himself?
- Has he adapted some of it?
- Is it an original story?
- 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?
- Why might they be sowquiet during the scene?
- What are they doing during the scene? Do they want to be in the play?
- What about their characters?
- Is Bottom a bully? A loudmouth? An egomaniac? A good actor who wants to help? A leader?
- Is Snug stupid? Nervous? Slow? A new member of the group? Extremely shy?
- Is there any poetry in the scene? Is it good or bad poetry?
- What words do you not understand?
- For our final read through, we will stage the scene.
- Where does the scene take place?
- Entrances and exits: Who should come onstage from where? With whom? Why? Does the text give you a clue?
- 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?
- How should each character act?
- The same cast will act out this scene again. What worked? What didn't?
- Watch a stage version of the same scene (16:31). What did you like?
- Write a summary of Act I scene 2 in your English Journal.
Success Criteria:
- I can explain Plato's view of the human person and Cupid's role in mythology.
- I know what is going on the in the scene from the play we read today.
Homework:
- Finish SAT letter F.
- Your next book review is on January 30th.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: We will read for 10 minutes.
Agenda:
- Lecture on Plato's view of the human person to get us ready for reading MSND.
- You will look up the role of Cupid in mythology and it this to your notes.
- Play map
- Actor's circle
- Read a scene from the play We will begin by reading through twice.
- Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
- Questions:
- Who are these guys?
- How do you know?
- What is going on here? What are these guys up to? How do you know?
- Do these guys know each other?
- Who is the boss of the group? How do you know? Who would like to be boss of this group? How do you know?
- Why are they putting on the play?
- 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:
- I can explain Plato's view of the human person and Cupid's role in mythology.
- I know what is going on the in the scene from the play we read today.
Homework:
- Finish SAT letter F.
- Your next book review is on January 30th.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Fill out the reading progress form. We will read for 10 minutes.
Agenda:
- Lecture on Plato's view of the human person to get us ready for reading MSND.
- You will look up the role of Cupid in mythology and it this to your notes.
Success Criteria:
- I can explain Plato's view of the human person and Cupid's role in mythology.
Homework:
- Finish SAT letter F.
- Your next book review is on January 30th.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.
Agenda:
- 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:
- Click publish
- Title your website with your name and the word portfolio
- Click on the icon of a chain to get the link
- Add the link to the portfolio assignment on Google Classroom
Success Criteria:
- I can demonstrate what I have learned first semester by creating a website portfolio.
Homework:
- Finish SAT letter F 100% by Friday.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: You will read if you finish the final exam early.
Agenda:
- Final exam today
Success Criteria:
- I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
- I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
- I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
- I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
- I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.
- I can track what I have learned this year using a website portfolio.
Homework:
- Finish SAT vocabulary letter F 100%
- Your next book review is on January 30th.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.
Agenda:
- Website Portfolio
- We will continue gathering evidence for our website portfolio. What assignments fit with the different capacities?
- English Journal
- We need to get this ready to turn in.
- You will be graded using this rubric.
Success Criteria:
- I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
- I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
- I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
- I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
- I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.
- I can track what I have learned this year using a website portfolio.
Homework:
- You should be reading your fourth book. Your next book review is on January 30th.
- Finish SAT letter F 100%.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.
Agenda:
- We will begin bringing our website portfolio up-to-date for the first semester.
- First, we will add the rest of the Capacities of a Literate Individual.
- Second, we will look for evidence for each capacity in the work we have done over the semester.
- We will also look at our English Journals and bring them up-to-date and get to have them graded.
Success Criteria:
- I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
- I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
- I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
- I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
- I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.
- I can track what I have learned this year using a website portfolio.
Homework:
- Work on your SAT F vocabulary.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Today we will read for ten minutes.
Agenda:
- Grade your vocabulary. You should be finished with SAT F at 50%.
- Work on your third book review. It will be due by Friday.
- Study for the final exam on Friday. You can watch videos to help you review any concepts.
Success Criteria:
- I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
- I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
- I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
- I can explain the plot of a book I read independently.
- I can improve my vocabulary by working on SAT vocabulary lists.
Homework:
- Work on finishing SAT letter F. You should be at 100% by Monday.
- Start reading your fourth book of the year. Your next book review will be on January 30th.
Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?
Reading: Fill out the reading progress form.
Agenda:
- Snowball activity
- 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 . . .
- Now crumple up your paper and let the fun begin.
- Ongoing conversations
- This semester we are going to talk to a lot more of our classmates. We are all going to help each other learn.
- 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.
- You will track who you talk to and what you talk about.
- Letter of Understanding
- Work on your vocabulary. When should I check it?
Success Criteria:
- I can identify what I am most worried about this semester. I have a strategy for how to deal with it.
- I have a plan for how to talk to more of my classmates.
- I wrote a letter that helped Mr. B better understand me as a person.
Homework:
- Get some sleep
- Finish SAT vocabulary letter F
- Finish your third book of the year.