Tuesday

Yall: These oral commentary notes are not to be scratchy little scant things. You should have an EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS of your extracts written in a neat and orderly arrangement, preferably typed and well-formatted, with examples tied to ideas.

Tuesday

Have your notes neatly laid out when you come to class on Wednesday/Thursday. I will take up the notes you use.

Tuesday

See calendar: oral commentaries on selected texts next week.

Tuesday

Kevian -- send me an email from each account you have used in the last year. That will help me search archives.

Monday

Although I do not recommend it because I think you should run screaming out of here with your hands up on Friday, you may defer your presentations of the Eliot poetry until one day after our return in January. That would be January 6 (A) and 7 (B).

Monday

Ok. A-day can have one more day to prep for WLA. Friday will be your due date. See you Wednesday!

Monday

This week, complete revisions of your WLA 1. Begin work on your presentation of an Eliot poem by the end of next week. See format guide in the Dropbox, which includes a title page. Add this: in the header that repeats at the top of each page (the place where you put your last name and the page number at the upper right), center your student number.

Monday

Please bring your WLA 1 for in-class review: I will have laptops, so you can revise if you bring the file.

What does it take to be a real man (or a real woman) according the play Macbeth?Find at least one pair of supportive passages that reveals one of the Macbeths contrasted with a foil character and analyze according to at least two literary criteria. Write your thoughts in a well-formed essay that concludes with your own thoughts on the main idea. Shape your essay as if it were a commentary. Both the essay and each internal paragraph should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. To earn an A, your paper must have a WOW factor. I need a little WOW. See today's instructions. Papers are due Thurday/Friday, Dec. 3/4.

Friday

See notes in dropbox one more time: I am about to assign credit for them if I can read them.

Monday

Look in dropbox at the Shakespeare notes. See how useless it is to write notes no one can read. If your notes are blank, please redo in DARK INK -- neatly.

Thursday

There is a copy of the mini-me research project rubric in Dropbox.

Tuesday

I will not be there Tuesday. Work on orals, log notes from Act I (to be scanned in); present little histories.

Scholarship money!

See Optimist Club essay contest below the calendar to the right. Do it! Or I'll be sure my daughter gets it!

A-day did a great job on the recitations today. Look at the calendar and the previous post for deadline clarifications.

Through Wednesday

I've adjusted the calendar a little because it takes so long to share findings:
Friday/Monday: recitations all day; if we finish, then we report research findings until the bell
Tuesday/Wednesday: complete reports on research; turn in notes on Act I (rather than write them on the board). I'll give you a handout for this. Then begin oral commentaries on the parts you memorized.
Thursday/Friday: finish orals; maybe a reading check; begin movie of Macbeth

Wednesday/Thursday

Prepare for a mini-oral on your memory selection to perform individually on Wednesday/Thursday. Organize as before with clear title, author, context, importance/purpose, and focusing thesis. Prepare for one or two elements or angles. Your commentary should be 4-6 minutes in length. DO NOT WRITE IT OUT. It will be assessed by classmates and me.

We will also go to the library for a little on-the-go research about the background, and we will have a language quiz reviewing the sentence patterns and simple diagrams. We might not get it all done...

Monday/Tuesday

Prepare your individual memory selections and analyze them in the same way you analyzed your assignments from Act I: context, speaker, audience, situation, purpose, imagery, motif, irony -- other elements if you notice them to be more dominant.


By the way, if any of you have one of your old "Who Am I?" powerpoint shows from ninth grade, I could sure use a couple of them for examples for my third and fourth blocks. Thanks!

Thursday/Friday

List your top three choices for a memory piece. Read the rest of the play. Be prepared to report on the images, motifs (or possible ones), and ironies in your selection from class Tuesday/Wednesday.

Reminder of fees

>>> Elissa COX 10/26/2009 9:26 AM >>>

If you all do not mind, please remind senior IB students this week that the EXAM FEE is due October 30 along with their signed registration form!!! 

 

Tuesday-Friday (revised!)

For Tuesday/Wednesday: make your choices for memorization from Macbeth and complete the handout on Act I on a separate piece of notebook paper (or type it). Finish the play entirely by Thursday/Friday.

The memorization choices I gave you do not match the Holt book (thanks Sarah and Maddison). So Row 1 (by the window) gets Act I
Row 2 gets Act II
Row 3 gets Act III
Row 4 gets Act IV
Row 5 gets Act V
Row 6 (by the computers) gets Act III

As you read, choose a passage from your assigned act. The passage should be 10-15 lines in length for one speaker, or if you want to act a little scene with a partner, 20-30 lines. Choose crucial speeches and exchanges, important ones that look as if they could be extracted for an oral commentary. If your individual speech is longer than 20 lines, I will score you with a bonus. Thus, you should read and choose carefully for an important speech or exchange, prioritize two or three passages in case you do not get the one you want, and tell me your choices on Thursday/Friday. You will have one week to prepare for your recitation.

Exceptions to the act assignment are possible if you have a desire to do a famous or important speech from another act, but have good reasons.

For Thursday/Friday: finish reading the play