For Friday
Read the background material on Sophocles and Greek theatre.
Study for the test on Macbeth.
Turn in Study Questions on Macbeth. I'll check homework (from Tuesday, see below) while you take the test
Don't forget to complete vocabulary unit 6 for Monday. Monday's class will be split between the vocab unit and the remaining Macbeth presentations. You will have additional weekend homework!
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I will collect the Things Fall Apart Response on Thursday, not tomorrow.
Complete the AP practice.
A reminder: Bring in AP exam money $25
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For Tuesday:
Study Macbeth’s famous “Tomorrow and tomorrow” speech and analyze how Shakespeare uses repetition, sound devices, figures of speech and syntax to convey Macbeth’s state of mind. Organize the supporting information as follows:
1. Determine Macbeth’s state of Mind
2. Write down supporting words, phrases, sentences
3. Identify the Language device
4. Give an explanation of how the language device conveys meaning or achieve’s a certain effect.
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Watch this video on the murder of Lady Macduff. In what way is she a foil to Lady Macbeth? What purpose does the scene serve? What is her tone in the passage when she talks to her son? How does her son show his precocious "wisdom" in answering her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUEeTYZVUU
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Have study questions completed and with you.
D. We will resume presentations in class
E. Before next Monday, complete vocab unit 6.
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Things Fall Apart over vacation
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We will finish
Macbeth presentations on Monday. You will have a quiz on
Macbeth on Tuesday.
By Wednesday turn in a response to this question:
What is the primary driving force in Okonkwo's life? Use the text to support your ideas. 2-3 pages.
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Imagine that you have been asked to defend Macbeth in a court of law and your chief defense is mental instability.
Using a timeline graphic, show Macbeth's mood swings and other evidence of mental instabily using Acts 3 through 5 for substantiation. Indicate the emotional reaction, the cause, and a significant quotaion. Present to the class for a quiz grade.
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1. Finish column 3 vocabulary.
2. Read through Act 4.
3. Bring your outside reading book and BNW to return.
4. Complete the homework below:
I conjure you, by that which you profess,
Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:
Though you untie the winds and let them fight
Against the churches; though the yesty waves
Confound and swallow navigation up;
Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;
Though castles topple on their warders' heads;
Though palaces and pyramids do slope
Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of nature's germens tumble all together,
Even till destruction sicken; answer me
To what I ask you.
1. Scan the passage for meter. P put \ or v above each syllable or one-syllable word to indicate accented and unaccented syllables. Identify the meter.
2. Describe the tone of the passage. Support your answer.
3. Identify 2 rhetorical or language devices.
4. Examine the rhythm and sentence structure of the passage. What effect do they create? How does that effect add to your understanding of Macbeth at this point in the play?
MALCOLM
Macduff, this noble passion,
Child of integrity, hath from my soul
Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts
To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth
By many of these trains hath sought to win me
Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me
From over-credulous haste: but God above
Deal between thee and me! for even now
I put myself to thy direction, and
Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure
The taints and blames I laid upon myself,
For strangers to my nature. I am yet
Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,
Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,
At no time broke my faith, would not betray
The devil to his fellow and delight
No less in truth than life: my first false speaking
Was this upon myself: what I am truly,
Is thine and my poor country's to command:
Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,
Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,
Already at a point, was setting forth.
Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness
Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?
By painting himself as a villain, Malcolm tests the allegiance of Macduff. Analyze the language of the passage.
1-paraphrase the passage
2. Explain what it tells you about Malcolm?
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Complete the rest of the AP practice passages in the handout.
Complete the 2 worksheets on the last 2 pages of the map packet (one on metaphor and simile, the other on paraphrasing lines).
Complete vocabulary, column 2.
Read background sheets on witchcraft and imagery.
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Complete the AP Practice on Macbeth for passages 1,2,3 4, and 5.
Read Act 3 and answer the study questions for Act 3.
Complete the second column of vocabulary.
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When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor'd youth,
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told:
Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.
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For Tuesday:
Read Outside Reading
Prepare for Sonnet/Poetry Test on Wednesday
Discussion of Henry V speech and persuasive language
Vocabulary 5 due for Thursday
Turn in Comma Sheets from weekend+++++ Quiz maybe on coma???????
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1. Prep Vocab 4 quiz
Then read,
Do the exercises on the comma--exercises 1,2 and 3- on the following website. It's interactive. Print out your copies as proof! Turn them in on Monday.
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Read over the speech from Shakespeare's Henry V. Often called the most famous speech on leadership, Henry's words inspire even now. Analyze the persuasive qualities of Shakespeare's words. Takes notes. Your notes should cover both the content and the language of the speech. Work on memorization of the sonnet. This will start Friday. Be Ready. If you're called on you have to be ready to go--no delays or disclaimers! Vocab quiz on Monday. Resume poem presentations on Thursday. There will be a test on sonnets after the presentations so you should read them over.
http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/crispen.htm (LINK TO THE SPEECH)
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Start making index cards (4x6) for each work we read in class. Make a card for BNW, Summer Selections, and The Metamorphosis. Keep going as you add to the list of works read.You may use the model and layout below or put main elements such as author-title-background on one side and the others on the back . I don't partricularly care how you arrange the 8+ pieces of information, or even if you add a 9th or 10th component that might be valuable to track, just as long as the components are the same and in the same place on each card. These will keep help keep the works prominent in your mind. I will probably check that you have them close to AP Exam time. You should do the cards on completion of the work or within a reasonable period of time after finishing them.
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Language of Text
German
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Author Biography
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Czechloslovakian of Jewish origin; dominant father
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Setting
middle class apartment
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Major characters
Gregor
Grete
Father
Mother
Family (as unit)
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Plot
Gregor, a salesman , wakes up transformed into vermin. Family members change as a result. G becomes increasingly isolated, ultimately ignored-dies
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Ending
Gregor is neglected; dies quietly; family finds positions and unity
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Thematic Issues
Family dynamics;
Effects of Dependency,
Ugliness, Change
& isolation
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