1B
1. Students had about 45 minutes to finish their Wikipedia projects and write their reflection on the project. Here are the reflection questions:
Answer in complete sentences.
- What was the biggest challenge for you in this project?
- How do you think facing this challenge in ninth grade will prepare you for your future?
- What are you most proud of?
- What did you learn about writing? or How did your writing skills improve?
- Do you think you’ll make edits to Wikipedia in the future? (either fixing typos or adding to pages)
- How did your freedom to choose a group/choose to work alone affect your work ethic? What have you learned about how you work alone/with others? Would you choose to work in this group/alone again?
- What grade do you think you deserve and why?
Then, organize the papers in your folder in this order, staple together, and turn in to Ms. G.:
- Reflection
- Notecards/Yellow cards
- Annotated articles
- Rough draft of plot summary
- Plot summary sheet with boxes on it
- Reading logs 1-4
- Journal #1 if you have it
2. Shakespeare Through the Ages. Today students learned that Romeo and Juliet is actually a much older story than you’d think. It originated with Ovid’s Metamorphoses in around 8 A.D. and continued to change in form until Shakespeare wrote his version in around 1591. We even have new versions today (Romiette and Julio, Letters to Juliet, “Love Story” by T-Swift, for example).
Each group read a different source text for Romeo and Juliet and then prepared a skit version of that story to present next class. Read all the stories here: Source Stories.
HW: Finish Wikipedia project and reflection by next class.
What does it mean to be done?
- You have written a plot summary in Google Drive.
- You have printed out, annotated, and taken notes on three articles from the Gale database.
- You have written at least a Reception and a Major themes paragraph based on your articles.
- You have created a Sandbox in Wikipedia with the parts of your plot summary, reception, themes, etc. paragraphs that need to be added to the real Wikipedia page for your novel.
- You have created citations for each quote you took from an article.
- You have copied and pasted the code from your Sandbox into the real Wikipedia article (extra credit)
2AB
Students worked today on cutting their scripts down to 100-120 lines and assigning parts.
HW: Read all of Act V by Wednesday. That means read V.i-ii today and V.iii tomorrow. Here’s V.i-ii:
Act V, scene i
start at 9:45
stop at 3:23 and make sure to read the last three lines left out
Act V, scene ii
watch 3:23-4:50 only
4B
1. Focused freewrite.
2. Return Song Analysis revisions. This counted as a project grade. Some students have not turned this in yet! Turn in ASAP for a late grade (-10).
3. Oral Quiz on Act IV.
4. Speaking Shakespeare techniques, continued.
5. Blocking techniques. We went to the cafeteria and spread out in a circle to practice some Stage Movement techniques (L20).
HW: Mark all the Speaking Shakespeare techniques in your lines. Also, decide what your pantomimes will be. Read V.i-ii for Wednesday. Read V.iii for Friday. We won’t have an oral quiz until Friday.
Act V, scene i
start at 9:45
stop at 3:23 and make sure to read the last three lines left out
Act V, scene ii
watch 3:23-4:50 only
ALEXA GARVOILLE 