FRIDAY, MAY 1

CLASSWORK:

• EOC PRACTICE TEST in Media Center

HOMEWORK:

• Your projects will be presented on Friday. If you are not finished, please complete them at home. 

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

CLASSWORK:

• EOC PRACTICE TEST in Media Center

HOMEWORK:

• Your projects will be presented on Friday. If you are not finished, please complete them at home.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

CLASSWORK:

• Sonnets 130 and 116

• Can you WRITE a sonnet?

• Run-ons and fragments: how-to avoid them and how to fix them!

HOMEWORK:

• Your projects will be presented on Friday. If you are not finished, please complete them at home.
• Get a good night's sleep for EOC practice run in the Media Center tomorrow!

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

CLASSWORK:

• Work on Shakespeare/Renaissance projects (laptops in classroom)

HOMEWORK:

• Your projects will be presented on Friday. If you are not finished, please complete them at home.
• Bring sonnets study guide to class tomorrow!

FRIDAY and MONDAY, APRIL 24 and 27 

CLASSWORK:

• Be sure to bring your work on Sonnet 130.

• Media Center for research projects. Go HERE for projects and assignments.

HOMEWORK: 

• Work on your projects at home if you feel that you cannot complete them at school on Tuesday (1/2 period)
• Sonnet 116 on Study Guide 
  • Scan first line
  • Rhyme scheme
  • Paraphrase

THURSDAY, APRIL 23 

CLASSWORK:

PARTY WITH THE BARD! Happy 445th, William!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 

CLASSWORK:

• SURVEYS! All the themes in Romeo and Juliet revealed!
• SONNETS!
  • We can define SONNETS!
  • We understand iambic pentameter!
  • We know what quatrains and couplets are!
  • We can scan poetry!
  • We know that THE BARD* wrote 154 sonnets!
    • *bard [Ir. and ScG bard; W bardd; Bret. barzh; cf. L bardus; Gk. bārdos]. The current standard English definition of this Celtic word, denoting a poet of exalted status, i.e. the voice of a nation or people, dates from Thomas Gray's use of it in his poem ‘The Bard’ (1757).
  • We understand Sonnet 18!

HOMEWORK:

Put your new-found knowledge to use. Work on Sonnet 130: 

• Scan it.
• Write the rhyme scheme beside the lines.
• Decipher the meaning. What is the metaphor? How is it developed?
• Prepare yourself for tomorrow. You are invited to WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S 445th Birthday Party!

TUESDAY, APRIL 21

CLASSWORK:

• Shakespeare bio-film and notes

• What in the world is IAMBIC? (Or, what do Shakespeare and Dr. Seuss have in common?)

  • i AM a PI-rate WITH a WOOD-en LEG!]

  • are YOU? ARRRG!

HOMEWORK:

• Work with iambic pentameter on your Study Guide, page 6 (questions 1-6).
  • Look at the sonnets in the Study Guide to answer these questions. 
  • Can you mark the unaccented and accented syllables on your personal quote?
• Bring the first two surveys to class (the "white" one is due Friday)
• Who can make a birthday card for Shakespeare on the wiki??? Anybody want to bring a cake?
• SEX-CROSSED LOVERS? Go here...if you dare! After you visit this site, make a comment, below!

MONDAY, APRIL 20 

CLASSWORK:

• ENDER'S GAME tests returned. Congratulations on a good job!

• INTRO to THE BARD: SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF!

  • Anticipation guide for you to fill out

  • Parent survey

  • Survey of students and adults

HOMEWORK:

• Memorize your quote!
• Get the first two surveys filled out
• SEX-CROSSED LOVERS? Go here...if you dare!

CLASSWORK:

• SURVEYS! Now we know...

• SONNETS!

  • We can definitely define a sonnet, right?

  • We understand iambic pentameter.

  • We are experts when spotting quatrains and couplets.

  • We know the Bard wrote 154 sonnets and we understand the difference between the first 126 and 127-152.

HOMEWORK:

• Work on Sonnet 130 and have fun with it. So bitter...or is it?
  • Scan it (u or /)
  • Rhyme scheme (abab, etc.)

FRIDAY, MAY 1

CLASSWORK:

• EOC PRACTICE TEST in Media Center

HOMEWORK:

• Your projects will be presented on Friday. If you are not finished, please complete them at home.