Tuesday, January 29th

Romeo and Juliet Seminar
Review Seminar Rubric & Reflection Assignment (due Friday)

TOGETHER: Rehearse choral reading of cut balcony scene.

“Directors”: Be ready to introduce the context of your scene.  Include which characters appear, what has just happened before it, and any other relevant details that the audience will need to understand.

Homework: Practice your lines!

Monday, January 28th

Group Rehearsal in Commons!

Seminar Prep Questions:  Get ready for tomorrow's seminar!
Answer in writing in your Shakespeare Journal or on a separate sheet on paper.

Tuesday, January 22nd

Continue Zeffirelli version with attention to the scenes we will produce....

If time, cast for GROUP SCENE PROJECT

Thursday, January 17

Journal #5 (from Tuesday):  Reflect on the experience of bringing a scene to life with acting.  How did this go for our class and for you personally?

The star-crossed lovers meet!
Film versions and Group Reading
1.5 "Saints and Pilgrims"
2.2 The Balcony Scene
Homework:  Memorize the bold-faced passage of EITHER Romeo or Juliet from 2.2

DISCUSS the LOVE in this play:)

Journal #6:  Do you believe in Romeo and Juliet’s love?  Do you think Shakespeare intended it to be interpreted as real love?  Explain your opinion.

Tuesday, January 15

The Civil Brawl:

1. Choral Reading of the Prince's monologue

2. Blocking and Acting!

3. Journal #5: Reflect on the experience of bringing a scene to life with acting.  How did this go for our class and for you personally?

Monday, January 14

DEBRIEF the film and the project so far.

Share out contents of Scavenger Hunt.  Turn in if you have not done so already!
What other questions do we have right now?

Shakespearean Insults!  Let's hurl them.
Craft Multiple Insults
Work with a partner to find definitions
Partner A, Partner B
Montagues and Capulets!


Scene 1.1: A Civil Brawl
1. How did Baz Luhrman do this scene?
2. Watch Zeffirelli version.  Differences?  What do we think?

Journal #4:  What is the dramatic effect of beginning a play or a movie with a fight scene?  Can you think of other examples?

3. Cast Parts for a Read-through
4. Stage Directions
5. Puns
6. Let's make swords!
7. If time, block the scene!

Tomorrow, we will finish blocking this scene and acting it out, so if you want to bring any props or costumes for your characters, do so! 

Friday, January 11th

Finish Romeo + Juliet

Journal #3:  React to the experience of watching Shakespeare as cinema.  How does seeing the actors bring the story to life change your interpretation of the story?

Homework: Finish Scavenger Hunt (due Monday)

Thursday, January 10

Choral Reading: Romeo and Juliet Prologue

What is this story about?  Major themes?

Start Romeo + Juliet

(“Annotate” the film with the seminar prep in mind)

1. Are Romeo and Juliet truly in love?  Did Shakespeare mean for us to interpret it as real love?
2. Which character in the play is the most to blame for the events of this tragedy? 
3. What are some themes and issues in Romeo and Juliet that are still relevant today?  What about this play can you relate to our times, either personally or generally?
4. Compare and contrast the two movie versions that we watched.  (Be sure to discuss similarities as well as differences.
5. Why do people still connect to Shakespeare 400 years later?

Wednesday, January 9

Shakespeare Journal Set Up

1. Start a new Google Doc in your Humanities folder.
2. Name it YOUR NAME SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL.
3. Share with Jessica.
4. Label each entry with its # and respond!  Make sure you keep up on these journals, even if you miss!

Journal #1: How do you feel going into this project?  How are you feeling about having to read and perform Shakespeare?

Finish Jaques' Soliloquy....

From another soliloquy...

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

Macbeth V.v.19-28

Journal #2:  What do you think about Shakespeare’s language?   How does it feel to read it out loud?

Scenes from Macbeth 2013

TO-DO:

• Read the short story version of Romeo and Juliet.  Be ready for a short reading quiz tomorrow!
• Shakespeare and Elizabethan England Scavenger Hunt (due Friday)

Tuesday, January 8

Welcome back!  Welcome, new crew!  
Share out: Why Animas?

Why Shakespeare?

Project Overview

What questions are there at this point?

The words!

Choral Reading: Jaques’ soliloquy:  As You Like It II.vii.139

• What is the extended metaphor?
• What do the words mean?  What are some ways that we figure that out?
• In what different tones/moods might you deliver this soliloquy?

Players 

Kevin Kline Jaques (5:15)

Jaques 2

Morgan Freeman

Monday, December 10

One of my favorite films!



Much Ado About Nothing Film Reaction
(Turn in at the end of class)

Thursday, December 6th

Exhibition/Project Debrief!

Reflection and DP update
On the Humanities tab of your DP, post the following elements by the end of class Friday:
1. Title of Project (Socialization and Liberation: Identity Mask Project)
2. Photo of your mask (Jessica has photos, or you can take a new one)
3. YOUR Essay!
4. A 5-paragraph Reflection that answers the following questions

REFLECTION
Paragraph 1:  DESCRIPTION
Topic sentence: In this project, we.....
Include reference to:

• Content
• Project
• Exhibition

Paragraph 2:  YOUR PROJECT
Describe the approach you took.
Answer: What are you most proud of about your project

Paragraph 3:  REFINEMENT REFLECTION?
If you could go back and refine something about your project, what would it be?
What goals do you have for future projects?  How might you do things differently?

Paragraph 4: EXHIBITION
Describe your experience at exhibition.
What profound conversations did you have?
Include at least one example of a moment that stands out in your mind.

Paragraph 5:  REVISIT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
What are your greatest takeaways from having done this project?  What enduring understandings do you have now about your identity, your socialization?  Your liberation from the cycle?

SEND JESSICA THE LINK TO YOUR completed DP by FRIDAY at the end of class

Monday, December 3rd

Woohoo!  It's time to exhibit this project!

Finish everything today!

TO-DO List

1. Finish Mask!
2. Final Essay Refinements
1. Conference with Jessica?
2. Is there TEA flowing out of your thesis statement?
3. Have you set up all your quoted material correctly?
4. Give your essay a title
• Center, 14 pt font
• Name underneath centered 11 pt font

Thursday, November 29th

Prepare for Critique
Sit in Critique Groups with your mask
Open your essay and highlight the thesis statement.
Underline each topic sentence.
Share your essay with your other group members.

Critique
Read each person's essay (while looking at the mask?) and comment on the following, according to the rubric.

• Which category of the rubric is this project excelling in?  What do you like most about the project?
• Which category of the rubric needs most work?  GIVE SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS.
• What questions or additional commentary do you have about this project?

WORK TIME AND CONFERENCES

Tuesday, November 27th

One Week Until Exhibition!!!!!

Let's re-orient ourselves.....

• Re-read: Project Overview
• Go over the rubric and complete the questions on the back on the paper.
• Share out!

If you have not submitted a draft to me, you are prohibited from working on your mask until you do so!

Draft of essay for peer critique due Thursday, November 29th.

Tuesday, November 13th

Some thoughts after spending the weekend with your essays....

The best ones have frames or extended metaphors guiding them.  Often these metaphors are the symbols in the mask.  (Props to those of you who are doing this!)

• What is the frame or metaphor guiding your essay's content?

THESIS STATEMENTS!!!!  When in doubt, let it occur at the end of a cleverly crafted intro that hooks your reader!  Most often, you should incorporate your frame or extended metaphor into the thesis.

• What is your essay's thesis statement?

STRONG TOPIC SENTENCES.  These should dictate your paragraph's content. Each paragraph should address ONE subtopic.  And then you steep your TEA.  If you need to, outline first (or reverse outline if you are already drafted out.  Use this outline template if it helps.  

• What are your subtopics?  Can you craft strong and clear topic sentences for each?

SENTENCE CRAFT.  The marks of quality sentences are conciseness and clarity.  Please work to eliminte wordiness.  It may help if you read your essay out loud or have someone read it to you.  And for the love of language, PROOFREAD!!!!

• Where can you improve your sentences?

SETTING UP QUOTATIONS.  Use the handout to reviseyour quote set-up or add some material from the Sociology content.

Monday, November 12th

Hello, my students!  This is the week when the projects come together!  Thanks for working diligently to make that happen!


 

MASKS AND ESSAYS DUE FRIDAY!!

If you got me your draft on time, you should have my feedback.  If you haven't submitted me a draft, PLEASE DO SO ASAP!!!!

As you work on your masks today, please take care of paints, brushes, resources.  Clean up after yourselves and be responsible Ospreys.

PROJECT RESOURCES:

• Project Overview
• Essay Outline Template
• Rubric
• MASK SLIDE SHOW
• Folder of Model Essays

Thursday, November 8th

MASK SLIDE SHOW

Draft due tomorrow!

• Project Overview
• Essay Outline Template
• Rubric

Tuesday, November 6

Do one more Mask Essay Analysis from the essays in the folder.

WORK DAY:
1. Essay prewriting and outline!  Draft due Friday! 
2. Mask refinement and artistry?

Monday, November 5th

Starter:  Write a working thesis on the whiteboard.

• Review the project description.
• To what degree is your thesis addressing the essential questions of the project?
• REVISE?

Let's chat about thesis statements....

• What makes for a good thesis statement?
• Thesis Statements: Mask Essay

Model Essay Analysis
Choose an essay to read in this folder (or ask Jessica to print one!)
Fill out the analysis electronically or on paper.