Helena's Speech about Love

Big Idea: Who or what is in control?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: 

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Literary Analysis practice
1. We will write a literary analysis of Helena's speech in Act I.
2. In order to write this analysis, we will paraphrase her speech and then look for literary techniques.
3. This first literary analysis essay will be done together.
4. We will read Helena's soliloquy at 1.2.226-251. Our goal will be to paraphrase what she is saying.
3. Act 2 quiz
4. Essay topic: Analyze Helena's complex analysis of love and attraction and what her message is as a whole.
1. Introduction 2 types:
1. Thesis at the beginning.
2. Thesis at the end.

1. Homework:

1. MSND Act III vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Monday

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: 

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Reading progress form
3. Watch the stage version of 2.2
1. Success criteria
1. I can explain why the conversation between Lysander and Hermia is awkward.
2. I can explain what mistake Puck makes.
3. I can explain why this scene is so humorous.
4. I can guess why Helena thinks that Lysander is playing a trick on her.
4. Finish your one-pager assignment.
1. You will choose one of the main characters from the play for this assignment.
1. Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena, Oberon, Titania, or Puck.
2. Take out a piece of paper and draw a giant Z
3. At the top of the Z write the character's name.
4. On the left hand side of the Z write down three quotes with a citation that demonstrate how this characters usually acts in the play.
5. On the right hand side of the Z, draw a picture of the character or draw/trace five symbols for the character.

1. Homework:

1. MSND Act III vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Friday

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: Summarize the scene with Oberon, Titania, and Puck.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Read Act 2.2.1-80
3. Begin your one-pager assignment.
1. You will choose one of the main characters from the play for this assignment.
1. Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena, Oberon, Titania, or Puck.
2. Take out a piece of paper and draw a giant Z
3. At the top of the Z write the character's name.
4. On the left hand side of the Z write down three quotes with a citation that demonstrate how this characters usually acts in the play.
5. On the right hand side of the Z, draw a picture of the character or draw/trace five symbols for the character.

1. Homework:

1. MSND Act III vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Thursday

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: Summarize the scene with Oberon, Titania, and Puck.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Shakespeare's Language
3. Vocabulary game
4. Literary Analysis practice
1. We will write a literary analysis of Helena's speech in Act I.
2. In order to write this analysis, we will paraphrase her speech and then look for literary techniques.
3. This first literary analysis essay will be done together.
4. We will read Helena's soliloquy at 1.2.226-251. Our goal will be to paraphrase what she is saying.

1. Homework:

1. MSND Act III vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Oberon's Revenge

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: Summarize the scene with Oberon, Titania, and Puck.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Read Act 2.1.146-265
1. Success criteria:
1. I can explain the trick Oberon is going to play on Titania.
2. I can explain the complex relationship between Demetrius and Helena.
3. I can explain why Oberon has sympathy on Helena.
3. Watch the stage version 36:00 to 42:50.
1. Success criteria:
1. What is one thing I understand better after watching the stage version?
2. "Oh, now I understand..."
4. Fill in the Evidence of Control document in Google Classroom for Oberon and Helena.
5. Shakespeare's Language
6. Vocabulary game
7. Literary Analysis practice
1. We will write a literary analysis of Helena's speech in Act I.
2. In order to write this analysis, we will paraphrase her speech and then look for literary techniques.
3. This first literary analysis essay will be done together.
4. We will read Helena's soliloquy at 1.2.226-251. Our goal will be to paraphrase what she is saying.

1. Homework:

1. MSND Act III vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Act II

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: Summarize the scene with Oberon, Titania, and Puck.

Agenda:

1. Fill out the Reading Progress Form.
2. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
3. In the your English Journal, list the tricks that Puck plays on people.  You will find the tricks by clicking on the link above and reading the conversation between the Fairy and Robin (Puck).
4. Watch the stage version to help with your comprehension.
1. Watch the beginning of MSND 2.1 and meet a new character named Puck. Video at 26:05.
2. The king of the fairies, Oberon, and the queen, Titania, are fighting.
5. Literary Analysis practice
1. We will read Helena's soliloquy at 1.2.226-251. Our goal will be to paraphrase what she is saying.
6. Fill in the Evidence of Control document in Google Classroom for Oberon and Helena.
7. Shakespeare's Language
8. Vocabulary game
9. Prepare for class discussion.

1. Homework:

1. MSND Act III vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Beginning Act II

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: Summarize the scene with Oberon, Titania, and Puck.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Shakespeare's rhyme, rhythm, and meter.
1. Tetrameter - strong-weak
2. Pentameter - weak-strong
3. Prose rhythm - 1.2.76-80
3. Acting companies
1. Choose a new director
2. Get Act 2 script
1. read 2.1.32-59 and try to find the rhythm
2. read 2.1.1-145 and figure out the new characters and setting.
3. Write a one sentence summary for each page like we did last Friday.
4. In the your English Journal, list the tricks that Puck plays on people.  You will find the tricks by clicking on the link above and reading the conversation between the Fairy and Robin (Puck).
5. Watch the stage version to help with your comprehension.
1. Watch the beginning of MSND 2.1 and meet a new character named Puck. Video at 26:05.
2. The king of the fairies, Oberon, and the queen, Titania, are fighting.

1. Homework:

1. MSND Act III vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

 

Meme the Scene

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: Summarize the scene between Quince, Bottom, and the other actors.

Agenda:

1. Meme the scene
1. With a partner, you will find a meme that matches the lines between Theseus and Hippolyta. 1.1.1-19 Look for pictures with romantic longing. I will choose one meme at random. Two students will read the Theseus and Hippolyta lines.
2. Now we will do a living meme or a tableaux vivant. We will arrange six students to match lines 1.1.20-127. We will need six parts: Egeus and the duke; Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander, and Helena. Other class members will read the lines.
3. Now everyone will leave but Hermia and Lysander. All guys will read Lysander's lines and all the girls will read Hermia's lines, 1.1.130-142. Our Hermia and Lysander will read 1.1.158-181. What are they saying to each other?
2. Establishing acting companies
1. Like the rude mechanicals, each of you will be in an acting group.
1. You need a name
2. A regular place to practice
3. A rotation order for directors
3. Acting companies at work
1. You will follow this procedure for reading a new scene
1. round-robin reading to a period, semicolon, colon, or question mark
2. circling words you don't know and agreeing on a definition
3. paraphrasing hard-to-understand phrases into modern English
4. making sense of the scene
2. Try this procedure with 1.1.180-250. This should take around 20 minutes.
3. Post your two best TQEs to the Padlet wall.

Homework:

1. MSND Act II vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

Tuesday

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: Summarize the scene between Quince, Bottom, and the other actors.

Agenda:

1. IMPORTANT DUE DATE: You need to be finished with your first book by February 3rd. Today we will create a daily reading goal.
2. Fill out the reading progress form.
3. Tossing Lines
1. Divide the class into two groups.
2. Do you have a word you can not pronounce or you do not know?
3. Toss the object around the group. When it is thrown to you, you will say your line.
4. Keep going until everyone has said their line two times or more.
5. Everyone will write down as many lines as they can remember.
6. Repeat the previous steps with group 2.
4. Script in your hand.
1. How do we find our place in a Shakespeare text?
2. Act.scene.line = 1.1.25
5. Read around, 1.1.20-127
1. Go around the circle. Each person will read until they reach a period or semicolon.
2. What is Hermia's problem?
3. Egeus' request?
4. The duke's solution?
5. How does the language in this section compare to the scene from yesterday?
6. prose vs. verse
6. Fill out the MSND graphic organizer. Look for the characters mentioned so far. Who are they trying to control? Why?
7. Add to your earlier summary. What is happening at the beginning of the play?
8. If there is time, we will play a Quizlet Live! game to help us get to know the characters.

Homework:

1. MSND Act II vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

Continue Independent Work

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Learning Target: 

Daily Writing: 

Agenda:

1. Work on A Midsummer Night's Dream independent work. It is due today.

Homework:

1. MSND Act I vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

Staging the Play

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?
Learning Target: 
Daily Writing: 

Agenda:

1. Play map. In your English Journal, write a summary of the plot of MSND. Make sure you include information from the two settings of the play.
2. Actor's circle
1. Read a scene from the play We will read through this scene one more time with 10 new actors.
2. Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
3. Questions:
1. Who wrote this play they are going to do?
2. If Quince wrote it, has he written it all himself?
3. Has he adapted some of it?
4. Is it an original story?
5. What do Snug, Snout, Starveling, and Flute think of the play? What do they think of the tension or lack of tension between Quince and Bottom?
6. Why might they be so quiet during the scene?
7. What are they doing during the scene? Do they want to be in the play?
8. What about their characters?
9. Is Bottom a bully? A loudmouth? An egomaniac? A good actor who wants to help? A leader?
10. Is Snug stupid? Nervous? Slow? A new member of the group? Extremely shy?
11. Is there any poetry in the scene? Is it good or bad poetry?
4. What words do you not understand?
1. For our final read through, we will stage the scene.
1. Where does the scene take place?
2. Entrances and exits: Who should come onstage from where? With whom? Why? Does the text give you a clue?
3. Who's the most important person in the scene? Who thinks he's the most important person in the scene? How do you act it out to show this?
4. How should each character act?
2. We will choose six actors to act out this scene.
3. If there is time, we will play a Quizlet Live! game to help us get to know the characters.

Homework:

1. MSND Act I vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

Getty Trip

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Learning Target: 

Daily Writing: 

Agenda:

1. Trip to the Getty Museum and UCLA.

Homework:

1. MSND Act I vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

MSND Game board

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Learning Target: 

Daily Writing: 

Agenda:

1. Work on A Midsummer Night's Dream independent work. It is due on Thursday.

Homework:

1. MSND Act I vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

Learning Target: 

Daily Writing: 

Agenda:

1. Encore:
1. Read over syllabus for English 10 Spring semester.
2. Choose your independent reading book for the month of January.
3. Read for 10 minutes and fill out the Google Form.
4. Explain how to complete your vocabulary assignments.
5. Go over your activity for Thursday and Friday since I will be gone for training.
2. Look at this map of the plot of the play.
3. Actor's Circle
1. Today we will start by reading a scene from the play. We will read it through twice.
2. Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
3. Questions:
1. Who are these guys?
2. How do you know?
3. What is going on here? What are these guys up to? How do you know?
4. Do these guys know each other?
5. Who is the boss of the group? How do you know? Who would like to be the boss of this group? How do you know?
6. Why are they putting on the play?
4. Now we will read through the scene again. Look for new information. What did you notice that you didn't understand before? What is still confusing?

Homework:

1. MSND Act I vocabulary It is due by Sunday at 9 p.m. You will turn in a screenshot of your finished assignment on Google Classroom.