Welcome to English 9!

  9B Week 4: May 3-7, 2010

Vocab week 3, R&J Act 1, Pronouns, EW: strong verbs & sentence variety, DEAR week 4

Romeo & Juliet begins!

 BRING YOUR R&J book to class EVERY DAY! 

 Check out OUR PEN PALS FROM KOREA  May 4, 2010

rainbow/crazy hair day

 supervisor Ally, Teacher Emily (Wally's niece), Uni, Joseph, John, Eddie, Sam and Kelly

it's Kelly, Eddie, Sam, Joseph, Uni and John is holding the sun.

Andrew & Jack, is this the way you do your English HW?

For more class of 2013 2nd semester pictures, click HERE.

 

HELLO, SHAKESPEARE!

(That's Wally above at the Stratford train station in Oct, 2008!)

Wally at Shakespeare's grave in Holy Trinity Church

in Stratford, England  Oct. 2008

Wally in front of Anne Hathaway's cottage 

Anne Hathaway was Shakespeare's wife

   

To see pictures of sem. 1 2010 English 9 students in our class photo gallery, click HERE.

For more class of 2013 2nd semester pictures, click HERE.

BACK TO  ENGLISH 9 HOMEPAGE WITH CALENDAR

   ENG 9A WEEKS  | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

   ENG 9B WEEKS  | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10

HEADS UP!  Check the portal.  Make sure your grades are correct.   If you see an error, print out the grade update at home.  Bring it in to Wally with the evidence of the wrong grade stapled to the actual update.  To get to the EPHS home page, click https://www2.edenpr.org/wps/portal/

NEED COPIES OF MAJOR ONGOING HAND-OUTS?  For lost class hand-outs, print them off the website.  Most are linked on the day the assignment was assigned.  Most of the BIG packets are linked at the bottom of my English 9 HOMEPAGE.  Click  ENGLISH 9 HOMEPAGE WITH CALENDAR to go there directly.

For a copy of the PPP (pink poetry packet), click HERE.

For a copy of the entire EWP (Effective Writing Packet), click HERE.

For a copy of the entire EWP (Effective Writing Packet), click HERE.

For a copy of the yellow Parts of Speech packet, click HERE.

For a copy of the pink COMMA packet, click HERE.

For a copy of the ♥Romeo & Juliet♥ packet, click HERE.

For a copy of the blue Buyback packet & templates, click HERE.

For a copy of the DEAR Reading Project & Journal Topics, click HERE.

For a copy of the DEAR Reading Log Template, click HERE.

To get an extra copy of the 4 week HW calendar, click HERE.

For a pdf copy of the DOL packet, click HERE.

To get a copy of the English 9B ongoing journal list, click HERE. FOR THE OPTIONAL JOURNAL IDEAS, CLICK HERE.  FIVE MINUTE JOURNAL To get a copy of the ongoing journal list, click HERE.  FOR THE OPTIONAL JOURNAL IDEAS, CLICK HERE. (reduced size)

       

EPHS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SURVIVAL MANUAL  (rev. 11.22.09),

Click HERE for the entire manual full size

or  HERE for the entire manual half size.

click HERE for the COVER with table of contents  (rev. 11.22.09)

click HERE for the GRS (Grammar Rules Summary) section--yellow

click HERE for the MSF (Manuscript Formatting Rules) section--yellow

click HERE for the PDQ (Parenthetical Documentation and Quotes) section--green  (rev. 11.22.09)

click HERE for the WC (Works Cited) section--pink (rev. 11.22.09)

click HERE for the WC (Works Cited) SHORT FORM--pink

 

 

 
DATE In-Class plan Homework (due next day almost always):
MONDAY, day 13

THE GLOBE THEATRE

in its glory!

these pictures are of Shakespeare's OLD GLOBE THEATRE:

  

 

The Original Globe vs.

Today's Globe Theatre

Wally's pictures of London from the summer 2006

Wally at the Globe in the summer of 2006

 

 

PARIS GARDEN--the bear beating arenas!  (Shakespeare's competition)
  1. Group Check-in:  Weekend highs & lows, how's your DEAR book )
  2. Intro VOCAB WEEK 3

  3. ♥   ♥   ♥  R&J "Prologue" (p. 3 NEW BOOK) and  SONNETS (p. 3) and on p. 47 in R&J packet--Discuss rhyme scheme and rhythm in the prologue and what makes a SONNET.  Discuss the differences between a Shakespearean (English) and a Petrarchan sonnet (Italian). Go over rest of blue sheet (back side) of poetry terms--rhythm, rhyme and sonnet maybe do some blue practice test together on scansion

  4. MAYBE ♥   ♥   ♥  R&J prologue videos of prologue ? R&J videos--1969 (11 min), 1996 (15 min)  and Reduced Shakespeare Company on youtube  For the reduced Shakespeare company's rendition of R&J part 1,click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVyqiskpMk&mode=related&search=Renaissance Man (10 min) (maybe) 

    ♥ R&J ♥ "Prologue" (p. 3 NEW BOOK) aloud at least three times!  Maybe give it to someone else and listen to how he or she reads it. Highlight all the BIG, IMPORTANT WORDS (the nouns and the verbs) to help you find out the main focus of the prologue.

    CLICK HERE IF YOU NEED A COPY OF THIS PROLOGUE PARAPHRASE SHEET!

 

HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

  1. stamp DEAR JOURNAL #3
  2. collect DEAR READING LOG #3

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Vocab Cards week 3   For a master pdf list of all the vocab words, click HERE.

  2. Week 3 VRS worksheet     For a master pdf list of all the VRS sheets, click HERE.  For a copy of just VRS worksheet week 3 so you can type your answers, click HERE.

  3. WORK ON YOUR J21 Biographical Sketch.  THIS IS DUE TUESDAY, MAY 4th!  This assignment is explained on the bottom of EWP p. 37 (#2, 3, 4).    Click HERE for a sample biographical sketch written for this class about Nishi's grandmother and  HERE for a sample biography from Tuesdays with Morrie.  Click HERE for a copy of an actual biography on Lil Wayne and BB King.

    If you haven't already done the following, do this:: 

    1. READ EWP pp. 38, 39 & 40 CAREFULLY.  Decide on a person for this biographical sketch.  This must we someone who can give you about an hour's time to either interview in person or by telephone.  Set up an interview time.

     2.  Decide on the person you will interview and brainstorm the event/day in this person's life you will interview him or her about.                          

    3. Arrange for the interview and prepare the interview by writing up a minimum of 15 questions about the day or the event right on EWP p. 38.  or BETTER YET, TYPE THE QUESTIONS AND LEAVE ROOM FOR THE RESPONSES.  Remember to follow the suggestions on EWP pp. 39-40 for planning, conducting, and doing the interview. For a copy of the entire EWP (Effective Writing Packet), click HERE.

    4. Conduct the interview using the questions you brainstormed on EWP p. 38. EXTRA CREDIT! If you can (for an extra 3 pt. EC coupon), videotape or tape record the interview.   Write your answers to the interview questions either on page EWP 38 if there is room or on a sheet of notebook paper.  THIS IS NOT THE JOURNAL!

    5.Once you've done the interview, read through all your notes.  Then take all the notes and questions and write up J21 Biographical Sketch: "A Day/Event in the Life of _______" (this must be at least two sides of a page double-spaced.  Number the lines, too.)  Write in either 3rd person ("My grandma's name is Maggie Adams" or 1st person (as if you are that person you interviewed:  "My name is Maggie Adams") Remember to use sensory details, strong verbs, and sentence variety!    NOTE:  THIS JOURNAL IS NOT THE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS!  IT SHOULD BE A PROSE PIECE!

DUE TOMORROW:

1. the Interview Questions and Answers:  YOU WILL GET POINTS (EWP p. 38) FOR YOUR LIST OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS!  BRING THESE WITH YOU TO CLASS TOMORROW!

2.  J21 Biographical Sketch: "A Day/Event in the Life of _______" (this must be at least two sides of a page double-spaced.  Number the lines, too.)

 

Sonnet 54

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,

For as you were when first your eye I eyed,

Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold

Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,

Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd

In process of the seasons have I seen,

Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,

Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,

Steal from his figure and no pace perceived;

So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,

Hath motion and mine eye may be deceived:

For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred;

Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.

 

 

 
TUESDAY, day 14

BRING YOUR R&J book to class EVERY DAY! 

the love story of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII

Anne of the Thousand Days

(the movie abou the love story of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII)

For scenes from the movie Anne of the Thousand Days, click these links:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6hytptLLNcs&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qmv2p5Czv5g&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=znlLB5lq_-8&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iuAazpsn7vA&feature=related

Check out these for more movies/TV shows about the Henry VIII stuff:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467200/  new movie comimg out called The Other Boleyn

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758790/  TV show The Tudors

 

   

Rent the movie!  It's great!

For more info on this part of history, go to the website below:

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/boleyn.html

to read Anne and Henry's love letters, go here:

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/letter10.html

to learn more about Henry VIII, go here:

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tudor.htm

to learn more about the other wives, go here:

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/wives.html

or here:

http://www.larmouth.demon.co.uk/sarah-jayne/wives/wives.html

 
  1. Group Check-in:  Share your J21 Biographical Sketch and take a sonnet practice quiz

  2. Intro scene 1 R&J--Assignment B

  3. 4th hour R&J prologue videos of prologue ? R&J videos--1969 (11 min), 1996 (15 min)  and Reduced Shakespeare Company on youtube  For the reduced Shakespeare company's rendition of R&J part 1,click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVyqiskpMk&mode=related&search=Renaissance Man (10 min) (maybe) 

    ♥ R&J ♥ "Prologue" (p. 3 NEW BOOK) aloud at least three times!  Maybe give it to someone else and listen to how he or she reads it. Highlight all the BIG, IMPORTANT WORDS (the nouns and the verbs) to help you find out the main focus of the prologue.

    CLICK HERE IF YOU NEED A COPY OF THIS PROLOGUE PARAPHRASE SHEET!

  4.  3rd hour only:  Pronouns part 2 13P-17P-Use the blue EWS text, pp. 324-332, to do this. PINK PRONOUN PRACTICE QUIZ #2  Click HERE for a copy. Do gray Agreement Practice packet.  You will need your EWS book--pages 338-343; 373-379.  Click HERE for a copy of this gray packet.

 

HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

    1. J 21 Biographical Sketch
    2. EWP p. 38 Interview questions and answers
    3. Vocab cards week 3
    4. VRS week 3

 

 

 
  1. Effective writing technique #2: Do EWP pp. 20-23; 28-top p. 29.
  2. Do gray Agreement Practice packet.  You will need your EWS book--pages 338-343; 373-379.  Click HERE for a copy of this gray packet.
  3. PINK PRONOUN PRACTICE QUIZ #2  Click HERE for a copy.

  4. ♥ R&J ♥ Assignment B #1-3

               1.  Read Act I, sc. i (pp. 4-8 NEW).

                2.  Do SQ 1-8 (p. 29 of study packet).NOTE:  You can access the study questions online by clicking HERE and scrolling down.

                 3.  Summarize the events from this scene on p. 45 of the  GREEN PLOT OUTLINE on  p. 45in the R&J packet. NOTE:  You can access the plot outline online by clicking HERE and scrolling down.

    NOTE:  You can access the study questions online by clicking here:  the study questions and the yellow  significant quotations part of the packet.    See PINK "R&J Homework Assignment" Sheet for all the specifics of the assignments for R&J.  You can access this list on line by clicking HERE!   For the entire pdf. version of the ENGLISH 9 ROMEO AND JULIET PACKET 2007 (pdf version), click HERE. You will have to scroll down to find what you need!    EXTRA CREDIT COUPON!  (Due any time during R&J unit)  Fill in the blanks for these two Shakespeare exercises!  Click HERE! 

    ☺3 point EXTRA CREDIT  COUPON by Friday if you go online, take the Character test for Romeo & Juliet, and print out your results (bring them to class on Friday).   NOTE:  There are two separate ones for R&J; you can do either this one: 

     http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=randj

    or this one

    http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=romeoandjuliet

    or type in Romeo & Juliet in the search bar if you click :

    http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=romeoandjuliet  WARNING!  THIS SITE CAN BE A HUGE TIME WASTER!  For example, you can take a test to find out what Pokemon, Matrix, or Twilight character you are, etc., etc. etc.!

 

EXTRA CREDIT COUPON (3 pts.) OPPORTUNITY!  Shakespearean Insult Cards! Due FRIDAY!  Click HERE for a copy of this EC assignment and HERE for a sample of how the cards should look.

a.  Do the "Shakespearean Expressions (Insult) Activity."  Click HERE to find a three-columned list of Shakespearean words.   These words are alos on page 12 of your R&J packet.Warning!  These words are unkind!  They are insults! 

b.  Choose ONE line of 3 words—one from each column.  You will have two adjectives and a noun and must find their modern translations.  To do this, you must go to the EPHS library and locate the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary.  Look up your three words in the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED). 

c.  Now, take out 3 note cards.  Write #1 ADJ on the first card and copy the word from column one onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. Do the same for the second and third words.  Write #2 ADJ on the second card and copy the word from column two onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word.  On the third note card, take a highlighter and color it yellow (front and back sides).  Then write #3 NOUN and copy the word from column two onto this last note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. 

d.  Now, practice saying the “insult.”  Be ready to say it aloud in class when we do the activity!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
WEDNESDAY, day 15

 

Sonnet # 14

Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters and things indigest
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
Creating every bad a perfect best,
As fast as objects to his beams assemble?
O,'tis the first; 'tis flattery in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.

♥ Sonnet # 14

Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters and things indigest
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
Creating every bad a perfect best,
As fast as objects to his beams assemble?
O,'tis the first; 'tis flattery in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.

 

 

 
  1. Group Check-in:  Share R&J SQ's 1-8 & plot outline
  2. Review Vocab tricks week 3
  3. Review sonnet practice quiz--click HERE.
  4. Pronouns part 2 13P-17P-Use the blue EWS text, pp. 324-332, to do this. PINK PRONOUN PRACTICE QUIZ #2  Click HERE for a copy. 
  5. Do gray Agreement Practice packet.  You will need your EWS book--pages 338-343; 373-379.  Click HERE for a copy of this gray packet.

 

HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

  1. R&J sq's 1-8
  2. R&J plot outline p. 45
  3. R&J prologue paraphrase

     

 
  1. DOL #10-- For a pdf copy of the DOL packet, click HERE.  Click HERE for the GRS (Grammar Rules Summary) section--yellow to find the rules.
  2. Study for sonnet quiz tomorrow.  Take sonnet practice quiz--click HERE.
  3. PRONOUNS Study for final pronoun test tomorrow!  Study the entire pink pronoun section--Pronouns S-O-P-R AND I-IQ-D-R !  Click HERE if you need a copy of a pink practice quiz!   PRONOUN PINK 10 pt. PRACTICE QUIZ  Click here if you need a copy! 

    Don't know the difference between "who" vs. "whom"?  Neither does Michael from The Office.  Check out this The Office episode:

    http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/episodes.shtml#vid=169097&tin=1248.049&tou=1320.252&plt=lf

  4. Effective writing technique #2: Do EWP pp. 31-36

EXTRA CREDIT COUPON (3 pts.) OPPORTUNITY!  Shakespearean Insult Cards! Due FRIDAY!  Click HERE for a copy of this EC assignment and HERE for a sample of how the cards should look.

a.  Do the "Shakespearean Expressions (Insult) Activity."  Click HERE to find a three-columned list of Shakespearean words.   These words are alos on page 12 of your R&J packet.Warning!  These words are unkind!  They are insults! 

b.  Choose ONE line of 3 words—one from each column.  You will have two adjectives and a noun and must find their modern translations.  To do this, you must go to the EPHS library and locate the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary.  Look up your three words in the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED). 

c.  Now, take out 3 note cards.  Write #1 ADJ on the first card and copy the word from column one onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. Do the same for the second and third words.  Write #2 ADJ on the second card and copy the word from column two onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word.  On the third note card, take a highlighter and color it yellow (front and back sides).  Then write #3 NOUN and copy the word from column two onto this last note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. 

d.  Now, practice saying the “insult.”  Be ready to say it aloud in class when we do the activity!

 

☺3 point EXTRA CREDIT  COUPON by Friday if you go online, take the Character test for Romeo & Juliet, and print out your results (bring them to class on Friday).   NOTE:  There are two separate ones for R&J; you can do either this one: 

 http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=randj

or this one

http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=romeoandjuliet

or type in Romeo & Juliet in the search bar if you click :

http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=romeoandjuliet  WARNING!  THIS SITE CAN BE A HUGE TIME WASTER!  For example, you can take a test to find out what Pokemon, Matrix, or Twilight character you are, etc., etc. etc.!

 

 

 
THURSDAY day 24

Is Tyson warming up for the fight scene in R&J?

these pictures below are of London's NEW GLOBE THEATRE

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 
  1. Group Check-in:  Quiz each other on sonnets
  2. Review sonnet practice quiz--click HERE. and SONNET TEST

  3.  Act 1.1--start fight scene and dramatical terms from R&J packet, p. 14:  dramatis personae, prologue, chorus, sonnet, couplet, paradox or oxymoron, pun, stage directions, act, scene, dialogue, innuendo, aside, foreshadowing, allusion as best as you can in pencil, compare)  Go over  ♥ R&J ♥ Assignment B #1-3

               1.  Read Act I, sc. i (pp. 4-8 NEW).

                2.  Do SQ 1-8 (p. 29 of study packet).

                 3.  Summarize the events from this scene on p. 45 of the GREEN PLOT OUTLINE. 

HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

  1. DOL #10

Interested in websites on Shakespeare? 

Click HERE!

Check out some fun youtube Shakespeare LINKS:

For the reduced Shakespeare company's rendition of R&J part 1, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVyqiskpMk&mode=related&search=

For the reduced Shakespeare company's rendition of R&J part 2, click (starts with balcony scene) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKUyq-uCZr0&mode=related&search=

For a fun video with Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie spoofing Shakesepare and "To be or not to be," click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4

For a spoof on Shakespeare's life, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4HdGJcJVo

To see a Shakespeare in Love music video set to "If you're not the one" Daniel Bedingfield, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40Syu0sKYM

Royal Shakespeare Company's 2008 production of Hamlet with David Tennant as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart as Claudius Click HERE for pictures!

 

 
  1. ♥ R&J ASSIGNMENT B --#4-6

               4.  Read Act I, sc. i (pp. 9-13 NEW).

                5.  Do SQ 9-12 (p. 29 of study packet).

                 6.  Summarize the events from this scene on p. 45 of the GREEN PLOT OUTLINE. 

    NOTE:  You can access the study questions online by clicking here:  the study questions and the yellow  significant quotations part of the packet.    See PINK "R&J Homework Assignment" Sheet for all the specifics of the assignments for R&J.  You can access this list on line by clicking HERE!   For the entire pdf. version of the ENGLISH 9 ROMEO AND JULIET PACKET 2007 (pdf version), click HERE. You will have to scroll down to find what you need!    EXTRA CREDIT COUPON!  (Due any time during R&J unit)  Fill in the blanks for these two Shakespeare exercises!  Click HERE! 

  2. Study forVOCAB TEST #3  Click HERE for a list of the vocab words. ☺EXTRA CREDIT  on the vocab test tomorrow if you can go online and check out any of Wally's links below and write out (in advance of tomorrow) 10 fun facts about William Shakespeare):

    Interested in websites on Shakespeare? 

    Click HERE!

    Check out some fun youtube Shakespeare LINKS:

    For the reduced Shakespeare company's rendition of R&J part 1, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVyqiskpMk&mode=related&search=

    For the reduced Shakespeare company's rendition of R&J part 2, click (starts with balcony scene) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKUyq-uCZr0&mode=related&search=

    For a fun video with Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie spoofing Shakesepare and "To be or not to be," click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4

    For a spoof on Shakespeare's life, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4HdGJcJVo

    To see a Shakespeare in Love music video set to "If you're not the one" Daniel Bedingfield, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40Syu0sKYM

    MORE YOUTUBE LINKS TO CHECK OUT NOW!

    Rowan Atkinson interviews Hugh Laurie as Shakespeare

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbB6B0cQs4&feature=related

    amateur Globe Theatre tour

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgEU91cUzI&feature=related

    short tour of Globe theatre to music

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHvMIsAiLc&feature=related

    Brush up your Shakespeare from Kiss Me Kate--version 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CSb3Xe06s&feature=related

    Brush up your Shakespeare from Kiss Me Kate--version 2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmZfnax1yw

    History of Shakespeare--Brief and Naughty

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGATTeg1Os&NR=1

    Big Brother "Who's Shakespeare?"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPHyVOA7iI&feature=related

    Beatles do Shakespeare

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPHyVOA7iI&feature=related

    amateur Globe Theatre tour

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgEU91cUzI&feature=related

    short tour of Globe theatre to music

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHvMIsAiLc&feature=related

    EXTRA CREDIT COUPON (3 pts.) OPPORTUNITY!  Shakespearean Insult Cards! Due FRIDAY!  Click HERE for a copy of this EC assignment and HERE for a sample of how the cards should look.

    a.  Do the "Shakespearean Expressions (Insult) Activity."  Click HERE to find a three-columned list of Shakespearean words.   These words are alos on page 12 of your R&J packet.Warning!  These words are unkind!  They are insults! 

    b.  Choose ONE line of 3 words—one from each column.  You will have two adjectives and a noun and must find their modern translations.  To do this, you must go to the EPHS library and locate the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary.  Look up your three words in the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED). 

    c.  Now, take out 3 note cards.  Write #1 ADJ on the first card and copy the word from column one onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. Do the same for the second and third words.  Write #2 ADJ on the second card and copy the word from column two onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word.  On the third note card, take a highlighter and color it yellow (front and back sides).  Then write #3 NOUN and copy the word from column two onto this last note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. 

    d.  Now, practice saying the “insult.”  Be ready to say it aloud in class when we do the activity!

     

    ☺3 point EXTRA CREDIT  COUPON by Friday if you go online, take the Character test for Romeo & Juliet, and print out your results (bring them to class on Friday).   NOTE:  There are two separate ones for R&J; you can do either this one: 

     http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=randj

    or this one

    http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=romeoandjuliet

    or type in Romeo & Juliet in the search bar if you click :

    http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=romeoandjuliet  WARNING!  THIS SITE CAN BE A HUGE TIME WASTER!  For example, you can take a test to find out what Pokemon, Matrix, or Twilight character you are, etc., etc. etc.!

     
FRIDAY, day 17

FUN SHAKESPEARE RELATED MOVIES!

WEST SIDE STORY

 

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

 

  

Also . . .

  1. Renaissance Man

            

    and

    10 Things I Hate about You

and

Tristan and Isolde

  1.  

 

 
  1. Group Check-in: Weekend plans?  BRING YOUR DEAR NOVEL TO CLASS ON MONDAY NEXT WEEK!!!!

     

  2. HOW LIT CIRCLES WILL GO ON MONDAY & HOW TO DO DEAR JOURNAL D--REMINDER:  BRING YOUR DEAR NOVEL TO CLASS ON MONDAY NEXT WEEK!!!!

  3. JOURNAL 4--FRIDAY FIVE MINUTE JOURNAL To get a copy of the ongoing journal list, click HERE.   FOR THE OPTIONAL JOURNAL IDEAS, CLICK HERE. (reduced size) To get a copy of the 2010 2nd semester ongoing journal list, click HERE!MAYBE FIVE MINUTE JOURNAL To get a copy of the ongoing journal list, click HERE.   FOR THE OPTIONAL JOURNAL IDEAS, CLICK HERE. (reduced size)

INTRO TO R&J JOURNAL TOPICS

1.     Pursuit of Love: Love is worth pursuing at all costs.  Agree or disagree?

2.     Deception: If deception provides enjoyment, it is worth the risk

3.     “Lovesick”—what does it mean?  “Homesick” what does it mean?

4.     Feuds & fights—consequences?

5.     Would you trust your friends and family to choose a spouse for you?  Why or why not?  If you had to choose someone to do this for you, who would you choose & why?

6.     Your ideal spouse/perfect mate/lifelong partner

7.     Parental Control—esp. regarding rules, dating, curfew, etc.

8.     Respond to the quote “The course of true love never did run smooth.”  What does it mean?  Do you agree?

9.     Forgiveness . . . what would it take to forgive your worst enemy?  What would have to happen?

10.                        Buried alive . . . what would it be like?  What fears would you have?  What thoughts would occur?

11.                        Miscommunication . . . describe a time when you experienced miscommunication, reported or received inaccurate information.  What were the effects?

12.                        True Love? . . . what are the characteristics of true love?  What does it consist of?  What is it not?  Have your seen true love in your life?  Who portrayed it, and what made it seem like “true love”?

13.                        Fate vs. Free Will?  What are your thoughts about these?  Which seems to apply to your life?

14.                        Head vs. Heart?  Are you usually ruled by your head or your heart?  What are the consequences?  How about other significant people in your life?  What rules them? What happens when a “head” person comes into conflict with a “heart” person?  What happens when you are forced to choose between what your head says vs. what your heart says?

 

  1. Vocab Test #3

  2. 4th hour:  Pronouns part 2  13P-17P-Use the blue EWS text, pp. 324-332, to do this. PINK PRONOUN PRACTICE QUIZ #2  Click HERE for a copy.

  3.  Act 1.1-- fight scene and dramatical terms from R&J packet, p. 14:  dramatis personae, prologue, chorus, sonnet, couplet, paradox or oxymoron, pun, stage directions, act, scene, dialogue, innuendo, aside, foreshadowing, allusion as best as you can in pencil, compare)  Go over  ♥ R&J ♥ Assignment B #1-3

               1.  Read Act I, sc. i (pp. 4-8 NEW).

                2.  Do SQ 1-8 (p. 29 of study packet).

                 3.  Summarize the events from this scene on p. 45 of the GREEN PLOT OUTLINE. 

     

    HOMEWORK COLLECTED TODAY:

    1. R&J sq's 8-12 & plot outline square #1
    2. EWP 20-23, 28-29, 31-36

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. 4th hour only:  PRONOUNS Study for final pronoun test tomorrow!  Study the entire pink pronoun section--Pronouns S-O-P-R AND I-IQ-D-R !  Click HERE if you need a copy of a pink practice quiz!   PRONOUN PINK 10 pt. PRACTICE QUIZ  Click here if you need a copy! 

    Don't know the difference between "who" vs. "whom"?  Neither does Michael from The Office.  Check out this The Office episode:

    http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/episodes.shtml#vid=169097&tin=1248.049&tou=1320.252&plt=lf

  2. BRING YOUR NOVEL TO CLASS ON MONDAY FOR THE FINAL DISCUSSION!!!  D.E.A.R. Outside Reading Project  Weekend #4:  Finish your DEAR novel. For a copy of the goldenrod directions outlining the entire DEAR project, click HERE.

  3. Fill out READING LOG #4 and get parent signature when done.  HINT:  You can click on a Reading Log link below (either WORD format or pdf.) to print out 4 copies (you need one each weekend) of the reading log template to use rather than copying all the information on your own notebook paper.  For a WORD document copy of the Reading Log template which you can copy and paste and change the document to add more space, click HERE.  For a pdf version of the reading log, click HERE.  For a sample of HOW TO DO THE READING LOG (using my template, hand-written, etc) and HOW TO DO THE JOURNAL, CLICK HERE and SCROLL DOWN!
  4.   J 24 D.E.A.R. Journal #D for your last section.   NOTE!  THIS ONE IS 10 points and is explained on PAGE 4 of the goldenrod DEAR PROJECT explanation sheet You have to do some extra things this time!   FOR A SAMPLE OF THIS JOURNAL, CLICK HERE. For a copy of the goldenrod directions outlining the entire DEAR project and with the journal topics listed, click HERE. NOTE!  If your novel has been made into a movie, rent the movie and as part of your journal D, watch the movie and write up a comparison/contrast of the book vs. the movie 

     EXTRA CREDIT!!!  D.E.A.R. NOVEL index card (5 points EXTRA CREDIT)!  Click HERE for the index card template if you were gone in class when we started the index cards.

    FOR FUN over the weekend, why not rent one of these awesome movies, all of which have Shakespeare connections?

    Anne of the Thousand Days 

         

    A KNIGHT'S TALE

     

     

    WEST SIDE STORY

     

    SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

     

      

    Also . . .

    1. Renaissance Man

              

      and

      10 Things I Hate about You

    and

    Tristan and Isolde

     

    EXTRA CREDIT COUPON (3 pts.) OPPORTUNITY!  Shakespearean Insult Cards! Due FRIDAY!  Click HERE for a copy of this EC assignment and HERE for a sample of how the cards should look.

    a.  Do the "Shakespearean Expressions (Insult) Activity."  Click HERE to find a three-columned list of Shakespearean words.   These words are alos on page 12 of your R&J packet.Warning!  These words are unkind!  They are insults! 

    b.  Choose ONE line of 3 words—one from each column.  You will have two adjectives and a noun and must find their modern translations.  To do this, you must go to the EPHS library and locate the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary.  Look up your three words in the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED). 

    c.  Now, take out 3 note cards.  Write #1 ADJ on the first card and copy the word from column one onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. Do the same for the second and third words.  Write #2 ADJ on the second card and copy the word from column two onto this first note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word.  On the third note card, take a highlighter and color it yellow (front and back sides).  Then write #3 NOUN and copy the word from column two onto this last note card.  On the back of this note card, write the modern English translation of this word. 

    d.  Now, practice saying the “insult.”  Be ready to say it aloud in class when we do the activity!

     

    ☺3 point EXTRA CREDIT  COUPON by Friday if you go online, take the Character test for Romeo & Juliet, and print out your results (bring them to class on Friday).   NOTE:  There are two separate ones for R&J; you can do either this one: 

     http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=randj

    or this one

    http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=romeoandjuliet

    or type in Romeo & Juliet in the search bar if you click :

    http://www.selectsmart.com/FREEselect.php?client=romeoandjuliet  WARNING!  THIS SITE CAN BE A HUGE TIME WASTER!  For example, you can take a test to find out what Pokemon, Matrix, or Twilight character you are, etc., etc. etc.!

     

 

 
     

Guess who got a lot older than you today (besides Emily Dickinson?)  ?

                                                          1953

4th grade                   5th grade

8th grade         12th grade

freshman year at Gustavus 1971

1977 Wally and her AP English student Conn McCartan!

2007

2009