Welcome back from vacation! Here's what's up for this week:
B and C:
Your Short Story Chats are due this Thursday. If anyone wants to bring food or drink, feel free! If you've lost your project options, there is a link to the left of this post that will make them magically appear.
Looking ahead: Your short stories are due on 4 May; you will have at least one more class period to work on them.
A and F: (this schedule could change depending on how class goes)
Monday/Tuesday:
Read Act IV of MND in class, there will be a quiz on Act III
In class work: pgs 25-27 in packet
Wednesday/Thursday:
Read Act V of MND in class; there will be handouts and discussions for anyone who is lost.
Friday/Monday:
Showing of MND in class. Bring snacks!
Tuesday/Wednesday:
Test on MND
Monday, April 23, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Ah, the week before vacation. Because of so many absences, we DO NOT HAVE VOCABULARY THIS WEEK! You're welcome! Anyone who's going anywhere, whethere it's a school trip to France, Ireland, or Germany, or just heading south to Florida or the Carolinas (like me!), have fun and be safe!
B and C:
Your Short Story Chat is due on Thursday, 26 April. If you loose the handout with all the project options, look to the left and there is a blog post you can print out
Your Short Story is due on 4 May. Make sure it is based on a personal experience or an experience of someone you know. We will spend this week in class with the laptops brainstorming and drafting so you have a good start.
A and F: We will be finishing up A Midsummer Night's Dream after vacation. Due this week on Wednesday or Thursday is the following:
Study Guide: pg 13-15, 17-19, 21-23, and the Extending Your Response: "Literature Groups" on pg 15.
If you've lost your handouts, they are available to print by clicking the appropriate link on the left!
B and C:
Your Short Story Chat is due on Thursday, 26 April. If you loose the handout with all the project options, look to the left and there is a blog post you can print out
Your Short Story is due on 4 May. Make sure it is based on a personal experience or an experience of someone you know. We will spend this week in class with the laptops brainstorming and drafting so you have a good start.
A and F: We will be finishing up A Midsummer Night's Dream after vacation. Due this week on Wednesday or Thursday is the following:
Study Guide: pg 13-15, 17-19, 21-23, and the Extending Your Response: "Literature Groups" on pg 15.
If you've lost your handouts, they are available to print by clicking the appropriate link on the left!
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Short Story
Telling Your Own!
HONORS B an C Only!
DUE: Friday, 4 May
Remember a personal experience that you would be willing to share with the class. Or, recall another’s experience worthy of telling. Write the story down in rough draft format. Embellish the story as much as you like, exaggerating, stretching the truth etc., to make it captivating. You will have the opportunity to share it with the class if you choose. Then, use this story as the foundation for the original short story you will be writing.
Telling Your Own!
HONORS B an C Only!
DUE: Friday, 4 May
Remember a personal experience that you would be willing to share with the class. Or, recall another’s experience worthy of telling. Write the story down in rough draft format. Embellish the story as much as you like, exaggerating, stretching the truth etc., to make it captivating. You will have the opportunity to share it with the class if you choose. Then, use this story as the foundation for the original short story you will be writing.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Short Story Chat
Miss Simison
Honors B and C Only!
CHAT DATE 26 April 2007
Options:
1. Bring in a couple physical artifacts to interest people in the story. These objects can be symbolic, represent something important to the character, represent a setting or mood, or represent a response to the story.
2. Select two pieces of music that in some way illustrates something in the story. Put it on a CD or your iPod it so it can be played during the chat. Make sure to have a written explanation of why you chose the piece; this can include textual evidence and your own interpretation.
3. Find or write a poem that illuminates some aspect of the short story. Write it out neatly, illustrate it if desired, write an explanation of how it connects to the story.
4. Create a collage or mobile that illuminates the setting or theme or some other aspect of the story.
5. Create an advertisement for your story. It can be a print ad, a radio ad, or a TV ad if you have a recorder available to you. What about the story would you highlight and market?
6. Create a comic strip that illustrates the conflict or climax of the story without giving away the resolution. If desired (and you can’t draw!), use a Comic Creator (http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/) to create a final copy.
If you have an idea that is not on this list, make sure to run it by me first!
Make sure to bring in a copy of your short story when the project is due. Maybe make a copy or two in case your peers are really interested in reading it. This way, it will be accessible to the class. If you need help making copies, just ask!
***Please do not “wing it;” this project should actually require some thought and be mildly interesting to the class!***
Miss Simison
Honors B and C Only!
CHAT DATE 26 April 2007
Options:
1. Bring in a couple physical artifacts to interest people in the story. These objects can be symbolic, represent something important to the character, represent a setting or mood, or represent a response to the story.
2. Select two pieces of music that in some way illustrates something in the story. Put it on a CD or your iPod it so it can be played during the chat. Make sure to have a written explanation of why you chose the piece; this can include textual evidence and your own interpretation.
3. Find or write a poem that illuminates some aspect of the short story. Write it out neatly, illustrate it if desired, write an explanation of how it connects to the story.
4. Create a collage or mobile that illuminates the setting or theme or some other aspect of the story.
5. Create an advertisement for your story. It can be a print ad, a radio ad, or a TV ad if you have a recorder available to you. What about the story would you highlight and market?
6. Create a comic strip that illustrates the conflict or climax of the story without giving away the resolution. If desired (and you can’t draw!), use a Comic Creator (http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/) to create a final copy.
If you have an idea that is not on this list, make sure to run it by me first!
Make sure to bring in a copy of your short story when the project is due. Maybe make a copy or two in case your peers are really interested in reading it. This way, it will be accessible to the class. If you need help making copies, just ask!
***Please do not “wing it;” this project should actually require some thought and be mildly interesting to the class!***
Friday, April 06, 2007
Midsummer Night's Dream ACT I HANDOUT
Miss Simison
So, you’ve read the first chapter…..love it? Hate it? Don’t really care about it?
A few important things to remember:
We are introduced to the play’s theme of love and marriage early on with the speeches of Theseus and Hippolyta. Where do these crazy names come from? Well, Shakespeare learned of Theseus from a book called Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans; to him and his contemporaries, Theseus was not a legend, but historical fact. Back in the day, Theseus was most heroic during a war on the Amazons, a mythical nation of women-warriors.
Stichomythia~ (stick-o-myth-eee-ah) a fun word! Ever heard of it? Well, it’s a technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities. The term originated in the literature of Ancient Greece, and is often applied to the dramas of Sophocles, though others like Shakespeare are known to use it. Etymologically it derives from the Greek stichos ("rows") + mythos ("speech"). Stichomythia occurs very rarely in Shakespeare where characters speak single alternating lines. As you have probably noticed, it is present in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Stichomythia is particularly well suited to sections of dramatic dialogue where two characters are in violent dispute. The rhythmic intensity of the alternating lines combined with quick, biting ripostes in the dialogue can be quite powerful.
So here’s what we have:
Scene I : Theseus and Hippolyta are to be married
Hermia and Lysander want to be married but…..
Egeus, Hermia’s father, wants her to marry Demetrius but….
Demetrius is loved by Helena, his ex-girlfriend
The plan: All four lovers will go to the woods the next night, Hermia and Lysander to elope; Demetrius to prevent the marriage (Helena warned him); and Helena in hopes of being with Demetrius
Scene II: We’ve got some strange characters who are completely different from the ones we met in the first scene, they speak comically, as opposed to the formal poetry spoken by the lovers. Funny enough, they are very connected to our lovers:
1. The men are preparing a play to entertain and the wedding where Hermia must announce her decision
2. The subject of their play is very relevant to Hermia’s plan
3. They have a plan to rehearse the next night in the Duke’s wood, which puts them in the same geographical location as the lovers. There must be a reason for this!
Just when you thought soap operas were a modern-day invention…………
And we haven’t even met the fairies yet!
Miss Simison
So, you’ve read the first chapter…..love it? Hate it? Don’t really care about it?
A few important things to remember:
We are introduced to the play’s theme of love and marriage early on with the speeches of Theseus and Hippolyta. Where do these crazy names come from? Well, Shakespeare learned of Theseus from a book called Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans; to him and his contemporaries, Theseus was not a legend, but historical fact. Back in the day, Theseus was most heroic during a war on the Amazons, a mythical nation of women-warriors.
Stichomythia~ (stick-o-myth-eee-ah) a fun word! Ever heard of it? Well, it’s a technique in drama or poetry, in which alternating lines, or half-lines, are given to alternating characters, voices, or entities. The term originated in the literature of Ancient Greece, and is often applied to the dramas of Sophocles, though others like Shakespeare are known to use it. Etymologically it derives from the Greek stichos ("rows") + mythos ("speech"). Stichomythia occurs very rarely in Shakespeare where characters speak single alternating lines. As you have probably noticed, it is present in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Stichomythia is particularly well suited to sections of dramatic dialogue where two characters are in violent dispute. The rhythmic intensity of the alternating lines combined with quick, biting ripostes in the dialogue can be quite powerful.
So here’s what we have:
Scene I : Theseus and Hippolyta are to be married
Hermia and Lysander want to be married but…..
Egeus, Hermia’s father, wants her to marry Demetrius but….
Demetrius is loved by Helena, his ex-girlfriend
The plan: All four lovers will go to the woods the next night, Hermia and Lysander to elope; Demetrius to prevent the marriage (Helena warned him); and Helena in hopes of being with Demetrius
Scene II: We’ve got some strange characters who are completely different from the ones we met in the first scene, they speak comically, as opposed to the formal poetry spoken by the lovers. Funny enough, they are very connected to our lovers:
1. The men are preparing a play to entertain and the wedding where Hermia must announce her decision
2. The subject of their play is very relevant to Hermia’s plan
3. They have a plan to rehearse the next night in the Duke’s wood, which puts them in the same geographical location as the lovers. There must be a reason for this!
Just when you thought soap operas were a modern-day invention…………
And we haven’t even met the fairies yet!
Monday, April 02, 2007
VOCABULARY 24
EFFERVESCENT~adj~ bubbly, producing bubbles; full of energy
AGOG~adj~ highly excited by eagerness
CONTRABAND~n~ goods smuggled into or out of a place where they are illegal
PORCINE~adj~ resembling a pig, related to a pig
EBULLITION~n~ a sudden violent outburst
VERSLIBRIST~n~ a writer of free-verse
INCIPIENT~adj~ beginning
INSIPID~adj~ dull, bland
NEBBISH~n~ a timid, meek, or ineffectual person
RAPSCALLION~n~ rascal
ADDITIONAL 5 FOR HONORS................
PRODIGIOUS~adj~ enormous in size or quantity; amazing
UNFLEDGED~adj~ not fully developed, immature
WARREN~n~ a place where rabbits live; a crowded tenement
BENIGHTED~adj~ being in a state of intellectual darkness, ignorant
TYRO~n~ a beginner, a novice
extra credit:
slugabed-n- a person who stays in bed all day
pecksniffian-adj-
the rest will be up on wednesday morning when i get in to see the board
EFFERVESCENT~adj~ bubbly, producing bubbles; full of energy
AGOG~adj~ highly excited by eagerness
CONTRABAND~n~ goods smuggled into or out of a place where they are illegal
PORCINE~adj~ resembling a pig, related to a pig
EBULLITION~n~ a sudden violent outburst
VERSLIBRIST~n~ a writer of free-verse
INCIPIENT~adj~ beginning
INSIPID~adj~ dull, bland
NEBBISH~n~ a timid, meek, or ineffectual person
RAPSCALLION~n~ rascal
ADDITIONAL 5 FOR HONORS................
PRODIGIOUS~adj~ enormous in size or quantity; amazing
UNFLEDGED~adj~ not fully developed, immature
WARREN~n~ a place where rabbits live; a crowded tenement
BENIGHTED~adj~ being in a state of intellectual darkness, ignorant
TYRO~n~ a beginner, a novice
extra credit:
slugabed-n- a person who stays in bed all day
pecksniffian-adj-
the rest will be up on wednesday morning when i get in to see the board
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