Thursday, May 30, 2013.

All classes:  Poetry Analysis and Review for Final...

Final Exam Schedule for next week:
PERIODS:
Monday:   2 and 5
Tuesday:   3 and 7
Wed.         4 and 6
Thursday:  1 and 8

BRING YOUR ENGLISH 2 STUDY GUIDE TOMORROW.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013.

All classes:  Review for final exam.

Poetry Analysis

Students will work with partners to read poems out loud identifying the following  poetic devices for each poem:

1) Form
2) Metrical poetry or free verse
3) Alliteration
4) Assonance
5) Repetition
6) Onomatopoeia
7) Anaphora
8) Hyperbole

They will also respond to specific questions for each poem and earn ten points for the satisfactory completion of both prosody and analysis of each poem.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013. 

1.  A Streetcar Named Desire  TEST   All classes.

2.  Distribution of Final Exam Study Guide

Friday, May 24, 2013.

A Streetcar Named Desire  by Tennessee Williams

Completed reading of the play and reviewed for TEST on Tuesday, May 28.  Study the bio-data (Fill-in-the blanks) and the Notes we studied today. Go online if you were absent and did not complete the reading of the play.   Be ready for the test on Tuesday.  You can go to Sparknotes and read more on the play's symbolism and various motifs.

Thursday, May 23, 2013.

A Streetcar Named Desire:   Students read to Scene 10-11

Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

All classes:   A Streetcar Named Desire:  Scenes 7-9

Per. 1: pg. 106
Per. 2: pg. 118
Per. 3: pg. 112

Periods 5-Scene 9
Period 7:  Scene 10

Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

Periods 1-3

1.  Voc. Lesson 7 Clothing and Fabrics

2.  Work on chart for graph.

3.  A Streetcar Named Desire:  Scene 6; discuss influence of T. Williams background and character of Blanche.

Periods 5-7

1.  Voc. Quiz 28

2.  Work on Character Chart

3.  A Streetcar Named Desire:  Scene 5-6 p. 88;  Discuss Pleiades and Seven Sisters of Constellation Orion and relationship to Blanche.

Monday, May 20, 2013.

HCC Sign-up with Ms. Robinson in Room 225---No class.

Friday, May 17, 2013.

Bring your SS# on Monday.  We will go to sign up for HCC Dual Credit classes. Report to 327 first for attendance.

Periods 1-3

1.  Voc. Quiz 6 "City Building and Planning"

2.  A Streetcar Named Desire:  Read through Scene 5.  Work on Character Graph Chart.

Periods 5-7

1.  Voc. Quiz 28 postponed until Tuesday, 5/21 

2.  A Streetcar Named Desire:  Read through Scene 5;  Period 7:  Read through Scene 6

Thursday, May 16, 2013

A Streetcar Named Desire:  Read to Scene 3-5

Wednesday, May 15, 2013.


A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams :  Read Scenes 2 and 3

Per. 1: 
Per. 2: to Scene 3, pg. 59
Per. 3: to Scene 3, pg 53
Per. 5:  to Scene
Per. 7:  Completed Scene 3 pg.61

Periods 5 and 7:  Bring completed Voc. Lesson 28 tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Periods 1 - 3

1.  Voc. Lesson 6 "City Building and Planning"  Complete worksheet and study for quiz on Friday.
2.  A Streetcar Named Desire Notes on Tennessee Williams
3.  Begin reading play. Scene 1  (except Period 1 who worked on questions)

Periods 5 - 7

1.  A Streetcar Named Desire Notes on Tennessee Williams.

2.  Begin reading play. Scene 1

3.  Vocabulary Lesson 28 due on Thursday.

Monday, May 13, 2013.

Periods 1 - 3

1.  Vocabulary Less. 5 Business

2.  Turn in Othello Final Exam essay.

3.  A Streetcar Named Desire Anticipation Guide

4.  Finish watching last five minutes of Othello film.

Periods 5 - 7

1.  Final Exam Essay.  Must be completed in this class period.

2.  Othello essays were collected. If you have not turned in the Othello literary analysis essay, tomorrow will be your last chance.

3.  Vocabulary Lesson 28 will be due Thursday---no excuses.

Friday, May 10, 2013.

Periods 1 - 3.  (Algebra 2 STAAR EOC)

1.  Students worked on Othello Final Exam essay.

2.  Othello film.

Periods 5 - 7

1.  Othello film.  Makeups.  The Tragedy of Othello essays due Monday, May 13. 

Remember to:

a) Underline thesis statement and topic sentences
b) Highlight evidence (quotes)
c) Staple all in the following order:  1. Final draft (top)  2.  Outline   3. Chart w/quotes (last-bottom)

2.  Period 7:  Belles Presentation

Thursday, May 9, 2013.

All Periods 17 minute classes.

The Tragedy of Othello essay: Explanation of essay format with graphic representation.  Discussion of implicit and explicit thesis.

Vocabulary will be moved to next week.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013.

Period 2:  Final Exam Essay:  The Tragedy of Othello

Tuesday, May 7:  Periods 1, 3, 5, and 7

Continue with The Tragedy of Othello essay.

Monday, May 6, 2013.

All classes:

The Tragedy of Othello  ACTS IV and V  TEST

Periods 1-3:  Final Exam essay chart.
Voc. for this week: Less. 6: City Planning and Building

Periods 5-7:  Literary Analysis essay with textual support.
Voc. for this week:  Less. 28

Friday, May 3, 2013.

Periods 1 - 3

1.  Vocabulary Quiz Less. 4 "Art and Music"

2.  The Tragedy of Othello  Review for ACTS IV and V TEST on Monday, 5/6.

Periods 5 & 7

1.  Vocabulary Quiz Less. 27

2.  The Tragedy of Othello:  Review for ACTS IV and V TEST on Monday, 5/6.  Do not forget to complete ACT V questions + CP quotes.


If you were absent, here is the review for the test on Monday.  Bring it completed to class.

The Tragedy of Othello Acts IV and V  Review

 

1.   The setting of Acts IV and V is _______________________.

 

2.       Othello’s reaction at Iago’s description to him of Desdemona’s adultery is

 

 

3.       When Cassio and Iago are talking secretively about Bianca, Othello thinks Cassio is really talking about his _____________________________________________________.

 

4.       Othello loses ________________ of himself when he ___________________ Desdemona and calls her a “______________” for no reason.  Desdemona’s answer to Othello’s anger is to say, 

 

“ _____________________________________________.” 

 

5.       Lodovico  is shocked at Othello’s behavior and says, “My lord, this would not be ___________________________ in Venice./ Though I should  ___________________. ‘Tis very much,/Make her amends; she weeps.” IV.1.242-244 (lines).  [pages 214 and 216 in text].

6.       Othello says, “O devil, devil!/ If that the _________ could teem with woman’s tears, /Each drop she falls would prove a _________________./ Out of my sight!”

7.       We know that Othello has lost his reputation as a gentleman when Lodovico tells Iago, “ “ I am ___________________ that I am ________________in him.”

8.       When Emilia tells Desdemona and Iago that “I will be __________if some ___________   _______________,/Some busy and insinuating rogue,/ some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office (on Othello’s good side) / Have not devis’d this ________________.  I will be hang’d else.”  Emilia is unknowingly talking about her ________________, ______________.  This is called __________________________ irony because we know who has caused all the chaos,  but Emilia does not.

9.       To show her sadness, Desdemona sings a sad song called “ ________________.”

10.    On the night of her death, Desdemona asks Emilia to ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

most likely because _________________________________________________.

 

11.. Iago tells Roderigo that Othello is being sent to _________________________.

 

12. Iago tells Roderigo that it is necessary to kill ____________________ because if this man is not in Cyprus to take command, then _____________________ cannot leave, taking the beautiful _____________________ with him.
13. Cassio dines with __________________ the night he is stabbed.
14. Iago tells Othello not to _________________ Desdemona, but to ________________________________________________.  This is a better way to kill  her.
15. Emilia tells Othello that she will bet her ___________that Desdemona is faithful to him.  She states:  “ I durst, my lord, to ______________ she is ____________;

/Lay down my _______________at stake.”

 

16. Roderigo confronts Cassio with a sword, but while they are sword-fighting, ___________________comes from behind and wounds Cassio in _______    _________.
17. Othello uses two metaphors for Desdemona before he kills her:   Othello compares Desdemona to the light of a  ________________and a ____________from a rosebush.

 

18. When Othello enters the bedroom, he justifies his murderous actions with “ It is the ____________________, it is the  ___________________, my soul; /Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars,/ It is the  ________________.Yet I’ll not shed her ____________, /Nor scar that __________________ _______________ of hers than snow, /…Yet she must ____________, else she’ll _____________ more ___________.”

 

19. If Othello states that the murder will not be bloody, then we can assume that Othello will kill Desdemona by _____________________________.

 

20. Before Othello kills Desdemona, he _____________  her.

 

21. Desdemona begs Othello for mercy when she says, “Kill me _____________, let me live ______________________!”  Desdemona also begs Othello to let her say just ____  __________.
22. Othello actually _________________ Desdemona, who instead of blaming him when Emilia asks who has done her harm, says, “Nobody; I _________________. Farewell! _______________________________________________O, farewell.”
23. Graziano reports the death of ________________________ back in Venice.
24. Emilia is killed by ___________________, her own ________________.

 

25. Othello _____________________________ after he finds out the truth about Iago’s lies and Desdemona’s innocence.

 

Thursday, May 2, 2013.

Periods 1-3

1.  The Tragedy of Othello:  ACT V Questions.  Vocabulary quiz over "ART and MUSIC" vocabulary tomorrow. Study worksheet.

Periods 5 - 7

1.  Check Vocabulary Lesson 27 for homework grade.  Quiz tomorrow.

2.  The Tragedy of Othello:  Complete reading of ACT V. 

Period 7:  Did not complete. Will do so tomorrow.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

Periods 1-3

1.  The Tragedy of Othello:  Check Act IV answers.  Students' work was stamped for completion or to the last question.  They then checked their work.  Students with completed packets turned them in. The rest will turn them in tomorrow.

2.  ACT V:  Students read through part of Scene 2 (Othello and Desdemona in the bedchamber).

Periods 5 - 7

1.  The Tragedy of Othello ACT V

Period 7:  WITS writer/poet Ms. Sarah Cooper will visit and teach today.

2.  Vocabulary Lesson 27 due tomorrow.  Quiz Friday, 5/3