Reading
Things Fall Apart Chapter 2
Audio: https://youtu.be/tK3VEfdLD8s?t=12m45s
Text: http://l-adam-mekler.com/things-fall-apart.pdf
Interactions
1) we talked about TIME with Chapter 1. How does Chapter 2 "display, show, tell" time?
2) how does Achebe establish Nwoye and Ikemefuna as "character foils?"
3) what aspects of Ibo/Umuofia should we RASH?
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Monday, May 16, 2016
HW 5/16: ROAR poster, checking manuscript, suggestions for final unit
A good conclusion to Othello, and we shift into ROAR Poster Presentations!
Film Memoir/Film Review Book Project
Thanks to your wonderful student editorial board, your stories have been compiled. Please check the manuscript to make FINAL changes.
ROAR Poster Presentation Topics
Please use the link to submit your ROAR Poster Presentation topic
Things Fall Apart Suggestions
Our final book starts up next week, and I wanted to hear your ideas. Reflect on our year of literature, and what you found most interesting/challenging/inspiring.
Film Memoir/Film Review Book Project
Thanks to your wonderful student editorial board, your stories have been compiled. Please check the manuscript to make FINAL changes.
ROAR Poster Presentation Topics
Please use the link to submit your ROAR Poster Presentation topic
Things Fall Apart Suggestions
Our final book starts up next week, and I wanted to hear your ideas. Reflect on our year of literature, and what you found most interesting/challenging/inspiring.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
HW 5/12: final Othello echoes/review for exam
Read
Act 5 Scene 2 Lines 302-355
Tasks
1: Final Iago lines; Frustratingly ironic
-Why is Iago's final couplet so ironic?
-Why is Iago's final couplet so frustrating?
2: Deus Ex Machina
-What letters are found?
-What information is revealed or confirmed?
3: Follow the echo: "Speak of me as I am"
-What painful irony is found in Othello's wish?
4: Anaphora and contrast
-How does Othello define himself as NOT LIKE (3 traits), and as LIKE (4 traits)
5: Outsider status
-How does Othello argue/emphasize his status as "not Moor"
Study for EXAM on Monday
1) all Prezi notes
2) all Homework or Classwork passages
3) youtube videos
4) remember to bring your book, since its open book
Animated Othello (extra exposition, actual language)
Thug Notes
Act 5 Scene 2 Lines 302-355
Tasks
1: Final Iago lines; Frustratingly ironic
-Why is Iago's final couplet so ironic?
-Why is Iago's final couplet so frustrating?
2: Deus Ex Machina
-What letters are found?
-What information is revealed or confirmed?
3: Follow the echo: "Speak of me as I am"
-What painful irony is found in Othello's wish?
4: Anaphora and contrast
-How does Othello define himself as NOT LIKE (3 traits), and as LIKE (4 traits)
5: Outsider status
-How does Othello argue/emphasize his status as "not Moor"
Study for EXAM on Monday
1) all Prezi notes
2) all Homework or Classwork passages
3) youtube videos
4) remember to bring your book, since its open book
Animated Othello (extra exposition, actual language)
Thug Notes
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Homework 5/10: Emilia and Iago and Desdemona/Prezi on madness
Prezi notes on Othello's "madness"
Read
Act 4 Scene 2 Lines 105-166
Tasks
1: Desdemona's 1st (and last) soliloquy
-What does she share about herself, and how she sees Othello?
2: Emilia's echo on "forsook"
-According to Emilia, what did Desdemona give up for Othello?
3: Emilia's echo on "to get some office"
-How much does Emilia know? To whom does she say this line?
4: Iago's defense of Othello
-What cause does Iago give for Othello's change in behavior?
Read
Act 4 Scene 2 Lines 105-166
Tasks
1: Desdemona's 1st (and last) soliloquy
-What does she share about herself, and how she sees Othello?
2: Emilia's echo on "forsook"
-According to Emilia, what did Desdemona give up for Othello?
3: Emilia's echo on "to get some office"
-How much does Emilia know? To whom does she say this line?
4: Iago's defense of Othello
-What cause does Iago give for Othello's change in behavior?
Monday, May 9, 2016
Homework 5/9: Desdemona sub Othello 3.4.49-107
Othello Text
Act 3 Scene 3 Lines 49-107
Summary
http://www.shmoop.com/othello/act-3-scene-4-summary.html
No Fear
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/othello/page_170.html
Tasks
1: follow the pronoun: I cannot speak of this.
-What has Othello been talking about?
2: hear the echo in Othello's description of the handkerchief
-How does the handkerchief echo what Brabantio claimed, and how Othello has described his relationship with Desdemona?
3: who was listening? who enters after Othello exits?
-What does Emilia's gastrointestinal metaphor imply about her relationship with Iago?
Act 3 Scene 3 Lines 49-107
Summary
http://www.shmoop.com/othello/act-3-scene-4-summary.html
No Fear
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/othello/page_170.html
Tasks
1: follow the pronoun: I cannot speak of this.
-What has Othello been talking about?
2: hear the echo in Othello's description of the handkerchief
-How does the handkerchief echo what Brabantio claimed, and how Othello has described his relationship with Desdemona?
3: who was listening? who enters after Othello exits?
-What does Emilia's gastrointestinal metaphor imply about her relationship with Iago?
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Homework 5/5: Othello Soliloquy/Google Drive for Film Memoirs/Reviews
A huge thanks to the students who have been working as the Editorial Board for our Film Memoir/Review Book Project!
Lots of you have not placed your review/memoir in the Google Drive folder. Do it now.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0DhlJyuoYHVX0JZUXlxYWRaUWM
Othello's Soliloquy
1) Read the Play
Act 3 Scene 3 Line 227
Act 3 Scene 3 Lines 257-276
Shmoop summary
No fear
2) Read the Acting
Cork Shakespeare
https://youtu.be/ZqS1OulRbt4?t=9m1s
Sea View Playwrights
https://youtu.be/Q4v4wZDvNG0?t=1h11m49s
3) follow the echo...
a: Search "nature" on the MIT Shakespeare site
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/full.html
b: write down 3 echoes of "nature"
Lots of you have not placed your review/memoir in the Google Drive folder. Do it now.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0DhlJyuoYHVX0JZUXlxYWRaUWM
Othello's Soliloquy
1) Read the Play
Act 3 Scene 3 Line 227
Act 3 Scene 3 Lines 257-276
Shmoop summary
No fear
2) Read the Acting
Cork Shakespeare
https://youtu.be/ZqS1OulRbt4?t=9m1s
Sea View Playwrights
https://youtu.be/Q4v4wZDvNG0?t=1h11m49s
3) follow the echo...
a: Search "nature" on the MIT Shakespeare site
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/full.html
b: write down 3 echoes of "nature"
Act/Scene/Line
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The Line
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Who said?
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Said to whom?
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3.3.227
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And yet nature erring from
itself
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Othello
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Iago
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Homework 5/3: Act 2 reading
Nice work with the Iago soliloquy today!
Tonight, we skip ahead to Act 2 as the action moves to Cyprus
Read: Othello 2.1.209-308
Context
http://www.shmoop.com/othello/act-2-scene-1-summary.html
Tasks
1: read a film version
Sea View: https://youtu.be/mmw3vp5Boj0?t=30m17s
Cork: https://youtu.be/8cRuKC0Lezg?t=5m32s
2: use the Pro Tips from our Prezi notes
a) write out two lines and annotate the pronouns [define the antecedents]
b) write out a line that shows when Iago speaks to Roderigo, then speaks to himself/heavens/audience [look for hyphens]
c) write out an echo and explain why the echo is important
Note: if you want to really get into the echoes, search an electronic version...
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/full.html
Tonight, we skip ahead to Act 2 as the action moves to Cyprus
Read: Othello 2.1.209-308
Context
http://www.shmoop.com/othello/act-2-scene-1-summary.html
Tasks
1: read a film version
Sea View: https://youtu.be/mmw3vp5Boj0?t=30m17s
Cork: https://youtu.be/8cRuKC0Lezg?t=5m32s
2: use the Pro Tips from our Prezi notes
a) write out two lines and annotate the pronouns [define the antecedents]
b) write out a line that shows when Iago speaks to Roderigo, then speaks to himself/heavens/audience [look for hyphens]
c) write out an echo and explain why the echo is important
Note: if you want to really get into the echoes, search an electronic version...
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/full.html
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Homework 5/2: Soliloquy Reading #1
Soliloquy Reading #1
1) select 3 words from Iago's soliloquy, and find their meaning
2) read the three performances
1) select 3 words from Iago's soliloquy, and find their meaning
Othello 1.3.374-395
Kenneth Branagh (1995)
Sea View Playwrights (2015)
Cork Shakespeare (2014)
3) use the TONE chart from the back of your May Calendar to describe how each Iago says/acts the 3 words you selected
4) chart your findings
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snipe
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familiar
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engendered
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Word Definition
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Tone/Acting
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Tone/Acting
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Tone/Acting
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Kenneth Branagh (1995)
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Sea View Playwrights (2015)
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Cork Shakespeare (2014)
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