Planning Your Week:
Wednesday, 10/23 - AMND Act 1 quiz
Friday, 10/25 - Unit 4 vocabulary quiz
Upcoming Due Dates:
Friday, 11/1 - IR #2 due
Monday, October 21
Learning Goal(s): Compare film clips to analyze directors’ and actors’ choices.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
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Tuesday, October 22
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
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Homework:
Wednesday, October 23
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
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Thursday, October 24
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text; compose an informational paragraph.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
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Friday, October 25
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
Wednesday, 10/23 - AMND Act 1 quiz
Friday, 10/25 - Unit 4 vocabulary quiz
Upcoming Due Dates:
Friday, 11/1 - IR #2 due
Monday, October 21
Learning Goal(s): Compare film clips to analyze directors’ and actors’ choices.
Targeted Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL7: Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums (e.g., Auden’s poem “Musée de Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus), including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens practice sentence.
- Complete the Synonyms and Antonyms activities for vocabulary unit 4.
- Complete introduction to Shakespeare as needed.
- Introduction to Shakespeare with guided notes! View accompanying videos.
- Shakespeare’s background
- The Globe Theatre
- Plays and language
- Listen to the History of the English Language podcast Episode 1 (starting at 8:37 ending at 16:00)
- Review Shakespeare's language with OP video; What Shakespeare Sounded Like video
- Participate in tone activity as a class.
- Complete introductory fill-in notes to AMND.
- Read act I, scene i as a class with the graphic novel and audiobook.
- Complete the Film Analysis activity on the opening scene of AMND; discuss the exposition of the play.
- Before moving on to act I, scene ii, complete the "Views of Love" handout.
- Visually illustrate the love web that is introduced in act I of the play.
- Continue reading your second IR book!
Tuesday, October 22
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens practice sentence.
- Continue to read your IR book!
- Finish yesterday’s lesson as necessary; review exposition of the play by filling in the beginning boxes of the plot map.
- Read act I, scene ii as a class with the graphic novel and audiobook.
- Continue reviewing the plot by filling out the plot map and completing the plot summary paragraph in partners.
- Prepare for tomorrow’s act I quiz.
Homework:
- Continue reading your second IR book!
Wednesday, October 23
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
- Hearing and Vision Screening.
- Label the Magic Lens practice sentence.
- Study unit 4 vocabulary for Friday’s quiz.
- Take a quiz on AMND act I.
- View 1999 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; compare the text to the film.
- Introduce Puck: begin reading act II, scene i as a class with the graphic novel and audiobook. View live production of Puck’s grand entrance.
- Discuss the progression of the plot and characterization to this point of the play.
- Fill out the plot map before moving to act II, scene ii.
- Continue reading your second IR book!
Thursday, October 24
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text; compose an informational paragraph.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
- Label the Magic Lens practice sentence.
- Continue to read your IR book!
- Review act II in small groups; complete the plot paragraph.
- Take a quiz on act II of AMND.
- View 1999 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the end of act II; compare the text to the film.
- Begin reading act III of the play; discuss the progression of the plot and character development.
- Continue reading your second IR book!
Friday, October 25
Learning Goal(s): Consider how Shakespeare’s use of multiple plot lines adds mystery, suspense, and humor to his text.
Targeted/ Standards: ELAGSE9-10RL5: Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
Agenda:
- Study your vocabulary words before the quiz!
- Take the unit 4 vocabulary assessment.
- As time permits, continue AMND:
- Continue reading act III of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
- Fill out the plot map periodically through the reading.
- Discus how the “love map” changes; adjust on your original illustrations.
- Prepare for the act III quiz.
- Continue reading your second IR book!