Sunday, September 12, 2010

Week of September 14

Monday

Turn in college essays by 4:00. Review punctuation quizzes. Present google game winners and discuss types of websites – who can you trust? Explain poetry assignment for Tuesday. Take the first five lines of Jaques’s monologue and rewrite them using your own metaphor. Poems must be typed and presented in class tomorrow.

Read Act 5 and the Epilogue for quiz on Friday, along with the first 15 vocabulary words of Act 3.

Tuesday

Present poems. Vote for your favorite. Finish AYLI film. Discuss AYLI essay assignment for regular English (look at imdb and Rotten Tomatoes) and Honor’s English. When should these be due?

As You Like It essay – critique and defend Branaugh’s decision to change the play’s setting to Japan.

The Tempest essay – identify and analyze the reasons why this play (out of all Shakespeare’s works) is the best one to be performed by a group of prisoners?

Wednesday

Read New York Times article and then write a short essay where you are the headmaster of Horace Mann. What would you have done? If there are any actions of his that you agree with, defend them in your response. Include a claim, warrant, a qualifier, and a rebuttal, and label them in your essay.

Thursday

Review the vocabulary words. Create a character flow chart – including key words for each character.

Friday

Quiz and begin Shakespeare in Jail.

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