Reminder:
Senior Project Product Grading is next week! Make sure you bring COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF EVIDENCE!
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 21 and 22Classwork
Learning Objective: L.11-12.6, Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain specific words and phrases. RL.11-12.4, determine the connotative and figurative meanings of words as they are used in the text.
- Do Now: Copy learning objective and target practice in your journal. Then, take G Level Vocabulary Unit 9, Quiz A and essay.
- After: Review the quiz.
- Then: Copy and respond to the following prompt in your journal: Like many dramas, Shakespeare's plays were meant to be performed, not read. How can reading along with a performance enhance your understanding and heighten the experience of a Shakespeare play?
- Next: Creating the graphic organizer for following scenes (p. 321 in the green British Literature textbook). Begin Act I, Scene i of Macbeth (time-permitting).
Homework
- Talk to groups about the best days for gathering and filming (you do NOT need to know which scene you're doing or have your script written yet)
- Reminder: Independent Reading Option 3 proposals due by the end of week 3
- Reminder: Continue Independent Reading: early turn-in due on Friday, February 7 @ 2:15 (click here for written options)
Thursday and Friday, January 23 and 24
Classwork
Learning Objective: RL.11-12.3, 4, Analyze the impact of the author's choices in regards to character development. Determine the connotative and figurative meanings of words as they are used in the text.
- Do Now: Copy the learning objective and target practice in your journal. Then, copy and respond to the following prompt: What might the witches' cat and toad symbolize? How does this add to your understanding of who the witches are in relation to the world of the play?
- After: Shakespeare's use of the couplet at the end of Act I, Scene i (reading strategy from p. 321)
- Then: Read/listen to Act I, Scs. ii and iii (continue using reading strategy in journal)
- Next: Shakespeare's plays in Hawaiian Creole (Pidgin English)
Target Practice: I can understand and explain why Shakespeare used couplets at the end of each scene in Macbeth. +/0/-
Homework
- Study for G Level Vocabulary Unit 9, Quiz B next class
- Talk to groups about the best days for gathering and filming (you do NOT need to know which scene you're doing or have your script written yet)
- Reminder: Independent Reading Option 3 proposals due by the end of week 3
- Reminder: Continue Independent Reading: early turn-in due on Friday, February 7 @ 2:15 (click here for written options)
