February 6-10

Please bring in the balance for your fieldtrip, if you haven't done so already!  Homework will be very lite this week for all classes.   We will focus on reading and clearly understanding our assigned texts.

Period 5

Monday
Present 1 or 2 glogs

Nick Bottom thinks he is better than all of the other play performers.  Do you know any friends or people in your life who think their talents are far more superior than their peers?

Soliloquy- -the actors on stage communicate their inner thoughts and feelings as if they are talking to themselves.  they are oblivous to onlookers. 
Monologue- -The actors address the audience in a long, single discourse..

What is it?  How is it different from a monologue?

Sonnets- the formula for a sonnet

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

3 quatrains (4 lines in each stanza)

Last two lines are a couplet that rhyme

First stanza, ABAB;

second stanza, CDCD;

third stanza, EFEF;

and the couplet, GG. 

Analyze and compare two sonnets and the expression of love in each.

Lay and lie      Suzie (laid, lay) down on the couch.

Affect and effect

Read in class

Hw:  Compare and contrast the two sonnets;  Grammar (lay and lie) Finish reading the play Act 2; Chapters 1-3 due in Darkness Before Dawn by Friday

Tuesday
Present a couple of glogs

Sonnets continued

Go over Grammar homework

Act 3 AMSND

Think of a time when you got so involved in a movie/play that you totally forgot that it wasn’t real.

Irregular verbs part 1

Hw:  irregular verbs; finish reading play

Wednesday
Present a couple of glogs
sonnet- -Extra Credit
Satiricial essay (N'Sync)
AMSND

On demand writing prompt Civil War prompt (computer lab to type up writing)

*i-a-u verbs game

Read play in class

Tableaux

Hw:  read play

Thursday
break up letter:  tone
Present a couple of glogs

Reading quiz on Act 3 and 4

Watch movie
literal versus figurative language.  What's the difference?  Huh?
I like your kicks!  We were beasting on the field tonight!  You have some cool kicks.  I love you to pieces.
Rewrite a figurative poem into literal language
What is the effect on the reader/listener?

Hw:  Act 5

Friday
Present a few glogs

DBD assignment
Inferences PPT (imply versus inferences)

Finish play

Finish movie

Hw:  chapters 4-9 due Friday in DBD

Periods 2, 4, 6, and 7

I am not what I am"
-Iago to Rodrigo (Othello 1.1.65)

Monday
Small group discussions about weekend readings

Desdemona’s Secrecy and rebellion-  What does this say about her?

What are you initial impressions of Desdemona?

Analyze Brabantio’s reaction to Othello

Class discussion on racial undertones in the play.

Find evidence of racial remarks and analyze them for stereotypes and examine if Othello matches these stereotypes.

Movie Trailer

What do you see in the movie?

Group:  Create a 20 line script of Act 1.  Tell the action in 20 lines.  You cannot add to the original script, but you can shorten lines or leave portions of lines out.  Perform your scenes to class tomorrow

Tuesday

20 lines performances

Act 2

Iago’s Power of language

In pairs, Identify the metaphors and images that Iago associates with Othello.

How does Iago use language to deceive others?

How does Iago convince Othello that Cassio is a drunk, disloyal soldier, or that Desdemona is  sneaky and not what she seems to be?

 Why does Iago use his rhetoric and acting skills to destroy others?

What drives him?

Who and what is Iago?

Tableaux Act 1

Hw:  Finish Act 2 scene 2;  Write 5 questions from your reading that you will use to direct group discussions tomorrow.  Vocabulary words due Thursday.

Wednesday

Small/whole group discussions in class 25 minutes

Othello Mind Maps- -Start with an image in the middle.  Then, branch out.

Hw:  Read in the play

Thursday
Marriage in 1615

Finish mind maps

Share them

Hw:  Reading quiz Act 2

Friday

Reading quiz

Critical lenses discussion for the play

Act 2 tableaux

Begin Act 2 characterization assignment

Hw:  Read in your play for homework; TWO-voiced poem (Lysander and Othello- -typed and illustrated)