February 2008

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Would you like to listen to some poems? Your poem may even be HERE.

 

 

 

1  Practice Presentations, with feedback

HW: MEMORIZE poem by Monday, 4 February

 

4  MEMORY CHECK

(Competition Option)              

HW: Double journal entry

RECITATION – THURSDAY

 

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5 Circular share

Create a visual poem (i.e. retell your poem or make clear your understanding of the poem and/or one or more of its themes without using any words from the original poem)

HW: finish visual poem

RECITATION – THURSDAY

6 ˝ HALF DAY

Share visual poems

Viewing:

ü               POL – past winners

ü      USOP – poems

Pair share with feedback

HW: RECITATION – TOMORROW

 

How should you prepare?

See HERE

How will you be assessed? See HERE

 

7  RECITATION

 

HW: typed reflection and portfolio due tomorrow

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1.Introduce Romeo and Juliet; assign books

2. Read and annotate background information

HW: Romeo and Juliet Internet Scavenger Hunt (pgs. 1 – 5) due Tuesday

 

STUDYGUIDE

ONLINE TEXT

11 “Reading and Understanding Shakespeare,” Words that First Appeared in R + J, “Shakespearean Rewrites,” “Getting the Beat” (pgs. 6 - 10)

Homework: Romeo and Juliet Internet Scavenger Hunt (pgs. 1 – 5) due tomorrow

12 1. Review Romeo and Juliet Internet Scavenger Hunt             2. Finish any incomplete Classwork from yesterday

 

13 1.Paraphrasing: The Prologue (pg. 11)

2. Answer questions re: The Prologue (pg. 12)

3. Characters (pg. 13)

Homework: Vocabulary pages 14 - 15

 

14 1.review vocab           2. Active Listening: Act I (and answering questions, beginning pg. 17)

Homework: finish vocabulary (pgs. 16 – 17)

 

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191.review vocabulary homework             2. review Act I & questions             3. continue reading Act I

Homework: All questions from today’s reading should be answered

 

If I were you, I’d be REVIEWING my vocabulary!

20:  1.Act I – read aloud and answer questions

Homework: All questions from today’s reading should be answered

 

If I were you, I’d be REVIEWING my vocabulary!

21:  1.Act I – read aloud and answer questions             2.Trace plot vs. Romeo’s emotions (pg. 24)             3. Literary Elements - Act I: foil, foreshadowing, hyperbole, pun, conflict (pg. 22 – 23)

Homework: complete online review and review on page 21; Quiz Monday

22  view Act I

Homework: complete online review and review on page 21; Quiz Monday

25 1. Act I – Quiz

2. finish viewing Act I, if necessary

Homework: Vocab pages 25 - 26

 

 

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1. review Vocabulary             2. Begin reading Act II

Homework: finish vocabulary (pgs. 27 – 28); All questions from today’s reading should be answered

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1.review vocab homework              2.continue reading Act II

Homework: finish reading all of Act II and all questions (up to pg. 31) by tomorrow

REVIEW your vocabulary!

28 1 review Act II             2. Literary Elements – Act II: metaphor, imagery, soliloquy, malapropism, and pun (pg. 33)

Homework: complete online review and review on page 32; Quiz Monday

29 view: Act II

Homework: complete online review and review on page 32; Quiz Monday