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Burdick's Café
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52 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA
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Homework: 5/26

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?

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.

Period 1

Period 2

Period 4

Period 5

ROAR Poster Presentation Topics
Please use the link to submit your ROAR Poster Presentation topic

ROAR Presentation Sign-Up

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.

Things Fall Apart Suggestions

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

5/11 Prezi Notes on Humour

Humour in Othello

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?

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?