Monday, May 16, 2016

May 16, 2016 - May 20, 2016 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English; Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 and Act 3

Monday, May 16th: 
Special Schedule: SBAC Testing
Periods 5, 3, and 1 Two Hour Block Schedule for This Week

Period 3:
Go over the following questions for Act 2, Scene 2:
(Romeo starts with a soliloquy, which is when a character is alone on stage expressing his or her innermost thoughts or feelings.)

1. In the beginning of the scene, what emotional state is Romeo in?
Romeo is in a desperate state of not knowing whether Juliet will return his love.

2. In the beginning of the scene, what emotional state is Juliet in? She is full of wonder.
“O, Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou, Romeo!?”
She wants Romeo to stop being a Montague so that they can be together. Juliet is frightened, frustrated, stressed, despairing.

When she hears Romeo speaking, she says, “What man art thou, that stumblest on my counsel?”  She feels curious, cautious, startled, shocked, frightened.

After she realizes it is Romeo, she says, “And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.”
This shows that Juliet cares about him, but she is also warning him about the dangers.
(O’erperch these walls – jump over the walls. O’er means “over”. Shakespeare uses “o’er” rather than “over” because it would cause line 66 to have eleven syllables or 5 and  a half iambs, rather than ten syllables, destroying the iambic pentameter.)

Romeo is exuberant, expansive, effusive, jubilant, madly, passionately, insanely in love! 

However,  Juliet says, “At lovers’ perjuries, they say Jove laughs. Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say, ‘Ay’, and I will believe you….If thou lov’st me, pronounce it faithfully.” Juliet is asking, “Are you playing with my feelings?” 

She is showing restraint and caution in contrast to Romeo's wild exuberance. 

Romeo says, “Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow”

Juliet tells him not to swear by the inconstant moon which is changeable and not trustworthy.

When Juliet says good night, Romeo asks, “Wilt thou leave unsatisfied?

 Her response is “What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?”

Romeo replies, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.” (He is asking her to marry him. 
 Do you think Romeo actually thought about saying this before he said it?)

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Act 2, Scene 2, pages 772 and 773:  
gyves: chains or silken threads to hold the bird captive
Juliet compares Romeo to a young falcon, or a young bird and she is the falconer who pulls her bird back with its silken threads.
At the end of Act 2, Scene 2, Romeo and Juliet  are engaged to get married. (How long have they known each other?) She is going to send the maid to see him during the day to find out the marriage plans.
Read Act 2, Scene 6

Identify the foreshadowing in Act 2, Scene 6.
These violent delights have violent ends. – Kristina
And in their  triumph die, like fire and powder
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare –
It is enough I may but call her mine.

 What are the words of advice the Friar gives to Romeo and Juliet?
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder.
Therefore, love moderately long love doth so,
Too swift arrives as tardy too slow.

Write the quotations that express what the Friar thinks about the marriage.
1. So smile the heavens upon this holy act
    That afterwards with sorrow chide us not!
    (Heavens cannot smile, so it’s personification.)
Explanation:
He is asking the gods to smile upon this marriage
So that after the marriage the gods will not punish us with sorrow.
Definition:
Friar:  a priest.
Act out Act 2, Scene 6
Amanda read the Friar’s speech
Cooper acted out and translated it into contemporary English
Yubendi read Romeo’s speech
Johan acted out and translated it into contemporary English
Ashley read Juliet’s speech
Timerica acted out and translated it into contemporary English. 

 Period 1: 
Assigned questions over Act 2, Scene 2: 
Went over answers 1 and 2 in class.
Please finish for homework tonight. This will be due on Wednesday, May 18th.

Questions for Act 2, Scene 2:
1.     What are the different feelings Romeo and Juliet express during the balcony scene? (Starts on page 766)
2.     Who is the more cautious of the two in the balcony scene? Romeo or Juliet? Find a specific line or lines, which show the character’s caution.
3.     Though Act 2 is a happy act, Shakespeare at times reminds us of the threatening background. He does this through foreshadowing – giving clues to what will happen in the future. Identify at least two specific lines which foreshadow the fate of the two lovers.
4.     The nurse is one of Shakespeare’s great comic characters. However, do you think the nurse is a principled character, a person with a strong sense of right and wrong? Or do you think the nurse is easily corrupted, someone who will do whatever others want her to do? Find at least two passages to support your opinion and write it.
5.     The friar agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he wants them to be married, but he also has an ulterior motive. What is that motive? Find the passage in which he reveals his motive in marrying Romeo and Juliet, and write it.
6.     When the audience knows something that a character does not know is an example of dramatic irony.  Find at least three examples of dramatic irony in this act and write down the passages which supports your findings.

Rewrite each passage below into contemporary English:

“Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am none of his skainsmates.

“Is your man secret? Did you ne’er hear say, ‘Two may keep counsel, putting one away!”

“…but she, good soul, had as lieve see a toad, a very toad, as see him.”

 Watched 1969 film up to Balthazar riding to Mantua to tell Romeo about Juliet's "death".

Wednesday, May 18th: 

 1st Period: 
The following things will be due on Friday, May 20th: 

Act 2 questions, which are on the blog!

Act 2 Open book test!!!!

The Act 2 Vocabulary and Literary Handout!



Review of Act 2:
Act 2, Scene 2:
Romeo and Juliet plan to get married.
The plan was for Juliet to send the Nurse to meet Romeo by 9 am to find out the details of their wedding! 
Act 2, Scene 3:
Romeo asks the Friar to marry Juliet and him. The Friar is angry at Romeo for being so fickle in love. That shows immaturity. 
Jeopardy Questions: 
What happened to Rosaline? Regina and Anselmo answered!
Why does the Friar agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
Anselmo and Regina answered: The Friar agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because the families might become friends and family and stop fighting.

Act 2, Scene 4:
Dalicia answers the question what occurs in Act 2, Scene 4:
Romeo meets the Nurse and gives her instruction about the wedding night. The nurse will meet Romeo’s servant behind the wall where he will give her a tackled stair to be used by Romeo to climb the wall to Juliet’s bedroom for their wedding night. 

Act 2, Scene 5:
What is Juliet doing? Dalicia answered the question:
Juliet is waiting for the Nurse to arrive with the news about the marriage plans. 

Act 2, Scene 6:
The wedding

Read Act 3, Scene 1:
Setting: It is now one o’clock in the afternoon, just after Romeo and Juliet are married. Benvolio and Mercutio are in the square. Soon Tybalt, looking for Romeo, shows up to fight a duel with him. When Romeo shows up - freshly married to Juliet, but no one knows it except for Juliet, the Friar, the Nurse and he -  Tybalt begins to taunt him, trying to provoke him. Angry that Romeo refuses to fight, Mercutio steps in to defend Romeo’s honor. Soon an argument starts between Mercutio and Tybalt, erupting into a sword fight.

Why won’t Romeo fight Tybalt?
Anselmo answered: Because Romeo would be fighting a member of his family.

Why is Mercutio angry that Romeo won’t fight Tybalt?
Regina answered: Because Romeo has been challenged to a duel and by not fighting Tybalt,  he looks like a coward.

Finish discussing Act 3, Scene 1 on Friday. 



3rd Period:
Read the Friar’s speech on page 774
This is a very important speech in that this gives information about what will happen later on in the play.
Vocabulary:
Osier cage: cage woven of willow branches
Baleful: evil or poisonous
Mickle: great, powerful

Vocabulary Race:
Cooper, Isabel, Kristina
Virtue: behavior showing high moral standard; goodness
Virtuous: adjective form of virtue
Ashley – gave sentence for virtue

Kimberly, Kristina, Isabel
Dank: unpleasantly moist, damp and typically chilly,
Drunkard: the root word of drunkard is drunk. A drunkard is a person who is habitually drunk. An alcoholic.
Reeling: stumbling in a kind of circle

Figurative Language:
Titan’s burning wheels: the sun god’s chariot. This is the sun.
What time is it?
It is dawn!!!!!
The gray eyed morn smiles on the frowning night

Vocabulary:
Flecked: checkered
Revolts: rebels
Ere: before
Advances: goes forward
Dew: droplets of water which occur on the grass during the night

Iambic Pentameter:
Shakespeare uses the word “upfill” because of iambic pentameter! Each line in blank verse or rhymed verse has five iambs of unstressed/stressed syllables.  If he used “fillup” it would destroy the unstressed/stressed meter.

The Friar is gathering flowers and herbs to make medicine or physics. One type of medicine is a poultice, which is a cloth soaked in herbs.

Look at lines 8 – 11: identify the figurative language and explain what they mean.
What is a paradox?
We come from the earth’s womb and when we die we return to the earth’s tomb.
The earth is both the womb from which we are born and the tomb to which we return when we die.
This is a paradox. The herbs which grow on the earth’s bosom feeds us.

Things which are poisonous but are used with care can be beneficial to us. 
Things which are beneficial but are abused can become harmful to us. 
People are like plants. Like plants, there is good and evil in all of us, but for those of us in which there is a predominance of evil, the evil will take over and like a cancer, destroy the good. 

Page 780
Lent: forty days before Easter.
Mercutio is saying that the Nurse is an old moldy pie.

 Act 2, Scene 4: 
What is Juliet doing?
What is she waiting for?

Figurative Language:
Timerica
Allusion:
“Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw love”
Nimble: agile, quickly and easily moving
Pinioned: wings
Love should move quickly!

Read Act 3, Scene 1
Benvolio is Romeo’s best friend
Tybalt is part of the Capulet’s family. He is the enemy of the Montagues
Tybalt hates Romeo because he crashed the Capulet party. Tybalt challenged Romeo to a duel.
When Tybalt sees Romeo, he immediately challenges him to the duel.
Why doesn’t Romeo want to fight Tybalt?
(Hint: where did Romeo just come from? What was he doing just five minutes earlier – remember Act 2, Scene 6? He and Tybalt are now legally  kinsman.)
Mercutio is angry that Romeo will not defend himself and so he defends Romeo by fighting Tybalt.
Tybalt kills Mercutio when Romeo steps between them to stop their fighting. Romeo blocks Mercutio from moving out of the way or being able to defend himself.
Tybalt runs away after killing Mercutio.
Tybalt runs back to the square.  Why does Tybalt come back?
Maybe he is afraid of being thought a coward by running away?
Romeo fights Tybalt to avenge Mercutio’s death.
Romeo kills Tybalt.
Benvolio screams at Romeo to flee – because of the Prince’s order.
Lady Capulet is screaming at the Prince to order the death of Romeo. Benvolio tells his side of the story which places the blame on Tybalt.
The Prince is related to Mercutio and he will punish those who are responsible for Mercutio’s death.
Why doesn’t the Prince order the execution of Romeo?
Who started the fight?
Tybalt.
Who killed Mercutio?
Tybalt
Who killed Tybalt?
Romeo.
According to the Prince’s decree, who should be punished?
Tybalt, but Romeo killed him so the punishment has already been given to the person who started the fight.
What punishment does the Prince give to Romeo?
Romeo will be banished or exiled or expelled from Verona. If he is found within the walls of Verona then he will be executed within the hour of being found.

Friday, May 20th: 
3rd Period:
 

Today the following are due:

Act Two Open Book Test

Act Two Vocabulary and Literary Packets!

Act Two questions



How to correct your Romeo and Juliet test:

Example:

3. What form of verse did Shakespeare usually write in:

a. blank

 You write the question out (in its entirety) and then write the correct answer in its entirety.  You then staple the correction to the original test.

Went over Act 3, Scene 1
If you have any questions about Act 3, please go to the 9th Grade blog, and click on the link for Romeo and Juliet, Act 3.
Read Act 3, Scenes 2, 3, 4, and 5 - go over on Tuesday, May 24th

Period 1:
Today the following are due:

Act Two Open Book Test

Act Two Vocabulary and Literary Packets!

Act Two questions



Please redo all the work you receive today that is below a “B”.

How to correct your Romeo and Juliet test:

Example:

3. What form of verse did Shakespeare usually write in:

a. blank

 You write the question out (in its entirety) and then write the correct answer in its entirety.  You then staple the correction to the original test.


Act 2, Scene 2 Questions:
Page 788
Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Please incorporate the question in your answer.

Went over Act 3, Scene 1
Read Act 3, Scene 2
Went over
Read Act 3, Scene 3 – go over on Tuesday
Everything you need to know about Act 3 can be found on the link Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 on the 9th Grade English blog.
















 

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