Assignments for December 11th!!!


Vocabulary:

Eve

Leela

Dean

Elise

Jessie

Haakon

Presentations:

Haakon: Mental Illness and retardation

Eve: Mysticism and animals

Jessie: What did people wear?

Dallin: Unemployment, crime, and punishment

Hap: The geography of England

Bella: Religion of the times

Ava: Death, burial , and ghosts

Week 9: The November Push!!!!

Week 9: The November Push!!!! 

Complete Watch/Read/Listen 17 plays or 17 character studies by:

November 13^th

$10 Barnes and Noble Gift Card

November 20^th

$5 Dairy Queen Gift Card

Vocabulary Share:

November 13^th

Gonzalo

November 20^th

Marina

Phoebe

December 4^th

Hero

Fabian

December 11^th

Desdemona

Hermia





Upcoming Presentations:

November 13^th

Diana (God, Religion, and Superstition)

November 20^th

Alice (Religion of the times)

December 4^th

Hero (Mysticism and animals)

Hermia (What did people wear?)

December 11^th

Gonzalo (Unemployment, crime, and punishment)

Francisco (The Geography of England)



Writing Assignments:

Week 2: What is a stereotype and do we have them today?

Week 3: Is usury morally wrong?

Week 4: Comparing the stories in Num 15:32-36 and John 8:2-11 it appears that God contradicts    Himself.  Does He?  Explain.

Week 5: Which is more important - romantic love or friendship? Why?

Week 6: Write a report on a mythical character.

Week 7: When evil is done to someone, do they become evil? Explain.

Week 8: What are the rules for Justice and Mercy? Explain.

Week 9: Is it right to force someone to do something they do not want to do? Explain.



Bonus Questions:

Week 2: Why did they build the city of Venice?

Week 3: Why are ships called Argosies?

Week 4: What is the definition of irony?

Week 5: What is the hat called that the Jews wear?

Week 6: Where is Morocco?  Where is Arragon?

Week 7: What are the scriptural teachings on money lending?

Week 8: What categories from the Poetic Language Vocabulary sheet does 23 Psalm fall into?

Week 8: What category or categories from the Poetic Language Vocabulary sheet does the 23 Psalm fall into?

Plays/Characters Completed

Edgar (2)

Cressida (0)

Gonzalo (4)

Desdemona (1)

Hero (6)

Vernon (0)

Francisco (4)

Octavius (5)

Hermia (3)

Marina (4)

Dorcus (2)

Fabian (11)

Diana (17)

Ursula (17)(17)

Iris (17)

Alice (17)

Phoebe (17)

Week 8: The November Push

Week 8: The November Push!!!! 

Complete Watch/Read/Listen 17 plays or 17 character studies by:

November 6^th

$20 Happy Teen Gift Card

November 13^th

$10 Barnes and Noble Gift Card

November 20^th

$5 Dairy Queen Gift Card

Here is an idea of how long each play is:

4 Hour Plays

Hamlet

Coriolanus

Cymbeline

Richard III

3.5 Hour Plays

Antony and Cleopatra

Othello

King Lear

Winter’s Tale

3 Hour Plays

Henry IV (Part II)

Henry VIII

Henry V

Henry VI ( Part II)

Romeo and Juliet

Henry IV ( Part I)

Henry VI (Part III)

All’s Well That Ends Well

Measure for Measure

Richard II

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Henry VI ( Part I)

2.5 Hour Plays

As You Like It

Merchant of Venice

King John

Taming of the Shrew

Julius Caesar

Merry Wives of Windsor

Much Ado About Nothing

Titus Andronicus

Timon of Athens

Twelfth Night

Macbeth

Pericles

2 Hour Plays

Tempest

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Comedy of Errors

Writing Assignments:

Week 2: What is a stereotype and do we have them today?

Week 3: Is usury morally wrong?

Week 4: Comparing the stories in Num 15:32-36 and John 8:2-11 it appears that God contradicts    Himself.  Does He?  Explain.

Week 5: Which is more important - romantic love or friendship? Why?

Week 6: Write a report on a mythical character.

Week 7: When evil is done to someone, do they become evil? Explain.

Week 8: What are the rules for Jusice and Mercy? Explain.

Bonus Questions:

Week 2: Why did they build the city of Venice?

Week 3: Why are ships called Argosies?

Week 4: What is the definition of irony?

Week 5: What is the hat called that the Jews wear?

Week 6: Where is Morocco?  Where is Arragon?

Week 7: What are the scriptural teachings on money lending?

Week 8: What category or categories from the Poetic Language Vocabulary sheet does the 23 Psalm fall into?

Week 7: Poetic Language: Couplets, Quatrain, and Rhyme Royal

Week 7: Poetic Language: Couplets, Quatrain, and Rhyme Royal

Quantrain

a verse/stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.

Example: Hamlet Act III Scene 2 page 114

Player Queen

(a) O! confound the rest;

(a) Such love must needs be treason in my breast;

(b) In second husband let me be accurst;

(b) None wed the second but who kill’d the first.


Couplets

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter, two successive rhyming lines in a verse

Example: Act II Scene 2 page 79

Polonius

…That we find out the cause of this effect,

Or rather say, the cause of this defect,…

Example: Act I Scene 4 page 57

Hamlet

…By Heaven! I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me:

I say away! Go on, I’ll follow thee.


Rhyme Royal

Definition of rhyme royal. : a stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc.

Example: In The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare used a seven-line stanza with a rhyme scheme of ababbcc.

(a)  Even in this thought through the dark night he stealeth,

(b)  A captive victor that hath lost in gain;

(a)  Bearing away the wound that nothing healeth,

(b)  The scar that will despite of cure remain;

(b)  Leaving his spoil perplex’d in greater pain.

(c)  She bears the load of lust he left behind,

(c)  And he the burden of a guilty mind.

Here are the writing assignments from Week 2-7.  You can still do these and turn them in!



Week 2: What is a stereotype and do we have them today?



Week 3: Is usury morally wrong?



Week 4: Comparing the stories in Num 15:32-36 and John 8:2-11 it appears that God contradicts    Himself.  Does He?  Explain.



Week 5: Which is more important - romantic love or friendship? Why?



Week 6: Write a report on a mythical character.



Week 7: When evil is done to someone, do they become evil? Explain.





Bonus Questions:



Week 2: Why did they build the city of Venice?



Week 3: Why are ships called Argosies?



Week 4: What is the definition of irony?



Week 5: What is the hat called that the Jews wear?



Week 6: Where is Morocco?  Where is Arragon?



Week 7: What are the scriptural teachings on money lending?

Week 6

In class we read Act II Scene 7-9 in The Merchant of Venice.  We learned about iambic pentameter, blank verse, and prose.


Beginning in Act 2, Scene 2, why does Shakespeare change Hamlet’s language from  (iambic pentameter) to prose for much of the rest of the play?

Remember, Blank verse has 10 syllables

Example of blank verse:

HAMLET:

but, WOE is ME, you ARE so SICK of LATE,

so FAR from CHEER and FROM your FORMer STATE,

that I disTRUST you. YET, though I disTRUST,

disCOMfort YOU, my LORD, it NOthing MUST.



Shakespeare's plays: generally speaking, the nobility (like Antonio, Portia, and Bassanio) tend to speak in blank verse, which is a pretty formal way to talk. The commoners, or "everyday Joes" (like Gobbo and Lancelot), tend to speak like we do, in regular old prose.

Example of blank verse (remember, 10 syllables):

(Merchant of Venice Act I Scene 1)

in SOOTH, i KNOW not WHY i AM so SAD

it WEARies ME; you SAY it WEARies YOU



Not everyone in the play speaks in verse. Ordinary folks, as we've said, don't speak in any special rhythm—they just talk. Here's an example where Antonio's servant delivers a message in plain old prose:

Example of Prose:

(Merchant of Venice Act III Scene 1)

Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and

desires to speak with you both.



-I will be handing out a short homework assignment next week in class on iambic pentameter.


Here are the writing assignments from Week 2-6.  You can still do these and turn them in!

Week 2: What is a stereotype and do we have them today?

Week 3: Is usury morally wrong?

Week 4: Comparing the stories in Num 15:32-36 and John 8:2-11 it appears that God contradicts   Himself.  Does He?  Explain.

Week 5: Which is more important - romantic love or friendship? Why?

Week 6: Write a report on a mythical character.


Bonus Questions:

Week 2: Why did they build the city of Venice?

Week 3: Why are ships called Argosies?

Week 4: What is the definition of irony?

Week 5: What is the hat called that the Jews wear?

Week 6: Where is Morocco?  Where is Arragon?

Vocabulary Share:

October 23rd

Octavius (Ian)

Presentation:

October 23rd

Fabian (Dean)

Weapons

&

Desdemona (Emma) 

Who gets an education? What? Why?

Week 4

Week 4

This week we read Act II scenes 1-3 in The Merchant of Venice.

Writing Assignment:

Comparing the stories in Num 15:32-36 and John 8:2-11 it appears that God contradicts Himself. 

Does He?  Explain.

Bonus Question:

What is the definition of irony?

Presentation:

October 9th

Francisco (Hap)

Vocabulary Share:

October 9^th

Alice (Bella)

Presentation:

October 16^th

Octavious (Ian)

Vocabulary Share:

October 16^th

Ursula (Trinity)

Week 3: The Plays

Week 3: The Plays

This week we read Act 1 scenes 2 and 3 in The Merchant of Venice.  Our lecture this week was about the different kinds of plays.  Shakespeare wrote 4 different kinds: Histories, tragedies, comedies, and problem plays.

Writing Assignment:

Is usury morally wrong?

Bonus Question:

Why are ships called Argosies?

Presentation:

October 2nd

Iris (Ava L.) on Food and Dining Customs

Vocabulary Share:

October 2nd

Francisco (Hap)