December 19-21

Have a wonderful holiday season. 

Periods 2, 4, 6 and 7

We will begin "Othello" in January.  Please get a copy of it over the break.  We will begin reading it around January 17.

Monday

Sonnets-14 lined, rhymed poems “love song” or “love sound”

Take notes on sonnets

Put together a cut up sonnet in groups

Look at structure of sonnets (1^st-3^rd quatrains and couplets)

Hw:  Act 3

Tuesday

Reading quiz on Act 3

View corresponding movie clip

Shakespearean insults

Hw:  none

Wednesday

Continue with insults

Extra credit- Explicate a sonnet of choice; memorize the sonnet and sign up for a January date to recite.  Bonus points if you add costuming to your recitation.

Hw:  rough draft for your own sonnet is due January 4.

Period 5

Monday

Reading quiz Act I of “AMSND”

Soliloquy versus monologue

Hw:  Act I study guide questions due tomorrow

Tuesday

Soliloquy versus monologues

Shakespearean insults

Hw:  none

Wednesday

Shakespearean insults continued

Begin Act 2

Hw:  none

December 5-December 9

Attention All classes- Please bring in items to put into our prop box.  We will spend class time acting out scenes and delivering lines from the play.  Elizabethans didn’t focus a lot on scenery in their plays.  Their focus was mainly on dialogue and attire.  Please bring in old dresses, wigs, and other props to include in our box, so we can bring alive Shakespeare’s words.  The majority of the reading will be done in class, until you get used to the language. 

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7

Monday

Class Time:
Our next play will be "Othello", and we will begin reading it in January.

Collect Persuasive Essays

Find someone who:

Book fair

First 15 minutes of movie (if time allows)

brief Play Synopsis

Begin Act I scene i

Hw:  Memoir work 12/16; work on play questions (if we started reading today!)

Tuesday

Class Time:

Background notes quiz

Bardolatry

Shakespeare's works have attracted worshipers and conspiracists:  read

nonficiton Shakespeare article that relates to this point:

Finish scene I, Act I

Shakespeare Fraud or Read reading

Hw:  finish play questions; memoirs

Wednesday

Class Time:

Shakespearean language

Begin Act I scene ii

Hw:  play questions; memoirs

Thursday

Class Time:

Who's Who Graphic organizer

Shakespeare language continued

Lovers’ diagram

Introduce Soliloquy (Helen's soliloquy at the end of the play)

Finish Act I (scenes 1 and 2) by Friday

Friday

Class Time:

Soliloquy

Discuss Text

Still scenes from the play (Act I only)

Hw:  memoir; study guide play questions

Period 5

Book Fair

Monday-Shakespeare intro PPT

Hw:  bring in FBF

Tuesday

Movie form due Thursday

Begin looking at Shakespeare language

Find someone who…

Background on The Bard

Hw:  read Shakespeare background handout

Wednesday

Begin Act I

Hw:  Shakespeare work

Thursday-Friday

In class reading of Act I scene 1

Watch opening scene of movie

 Friday-Shakespeare background notes quiz