Monday, May 02, 2016

May 2, 2016 - May 6, 2016 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English; Romeo and Juliet: Act 1




Monday, May 2nd:

1st Period:
BIC
Passed out Shakespeare Insult List and open book test on Act 1 of ROMEO and JULIET
Read Act 1, Scene 2 in ROMEO and JULIET
Questions over Act 1, Scene 2
1.     When and at what time does this scene take place? The setting is just after Capulet is scolded by the Prince. He is walking down the street with Paris on a hot Sunday afternoon in July.

2.     What does Paris want from Lord Capulet?
3.     How old is Juliet? “She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.”
4.     What does Lord Capulet tell Paris?

5.     What does Lord Capulet invite Paris to?
6.     What dilemma does the servant have?
7.     Who does he stumble upon to help him?
8.     Whose name does Romeo see on the guest list?
9.     What advise does Benvolio give Romeo?
10. Find and identify an example of metaphor.

For homework tonight: Look through Act 1, Scene 1 and 2, to find at least three metaphors, similes, personifications, and allusions.



Copy the quotations, explain what the quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile, and allusion.



Page 739 - 740, line 135 – 139



Allusion and personification:

“But all so soon as the all-cheering sun

Should in the farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)

The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed…”



Explanation:

Aurora is the Greek goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.



Period 3:
Pass out Shakespeare Insult Page and Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Open Book Test
Acted out the Shakespeare Insult Page
Read Act 1, Scene 2, 3, and 4
Brief discussion over the reading
Questions over Act 1, Scene 2
1.     When and at what time does this scene take place? The setting is just after Capulet is scolded by the Prince. He is walking down the street with Paris on a hot Sunday afternoon in July.

2.     What does Paris want from Lord Capulet?
3.     How old is Juliet? “She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.”
4.     What does Lord Capulet tell Paris?

5.     What does Lord Capulet invite Paris to?
6.     What dilemma does the servant have?
7.     Who does he stumble upon to help him?
8.     Whose name does Romeo see on the guest list?
9.     What advise does Benvolio give Romeo?
10. Find and identify an example of metaphor.

For homework tonight: Look through Act 1, Scene 1 and 2, to find at least three metaphors, similes, personifications, and allusions.

Copy the quotations, explain what the quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile, and allusion.

Page 739 - 740, line 135 – 139

Allusion and personification:
“But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)
The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed…”

Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.



Tuesday, May 3rd: 


1st Period:

BIC

Kahoot.it – Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2

Read Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3

What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 3?

The house of the Capulets.



Who are the characters in the scene?



What are they discussing?



What is the relationship between the three characters?



How old is Juliet?



How many teeth does the Nurse have?



When is Juliet’s birthday?
Who was Susan?
What was the joke the Nurses’ husband made about Juliet?

What does Juliet’s mother ask her?

Read page 751, lines 82 – 92. What type of figurative language is used? What is being compared to what?

Descriptions to describe the Nurse:  She likes a good laugh! She is earthy. She is lusty. Earthy means to be open about things having to do with life and sex and life’s enjoyment of the senses, such as food and sex!

Class discussion about life in Shakespeare's time: 1562 - 1616. 

Period 3: 

Kahoot.it.com – Romeo and Juliet; Act 1, Scene 2
Romeo and Juliet; Page 756; Act 1, Scene 5

Discussion

Vocabulary:

Marred: to be damaged; to have the original beauty or quality ruined or spoiled

Romeo and Juliet; Page 756; Act 1, Scene 5

Read

Comprehension Questions for Act 1, Scene 5. Due tomorrow, Wednesday, May 4th:

What is the setting of Act 1, Scene5

What are Lord Capulet and his cousin discussing?

Who does Romeo see for the first time at the party?

Unfortunately, who also sees Romeo as the party?

What does this person want to do to Romeo?

What does Capulet say to Tybalt?

What does Tybalt threaten to do after the party?

What does Romeo compare his lips to on page 758?
What does Romeo compare Juliet to on page 758?
What does Juliet predict for herself if Romeo is married?
Why is this foreshadowing? 
Do Romeo and Juliet know the identity of each other when they first meet?



Wednesday, May 4th:

1st Period:

BIC
8:00 – 8:20
Since many students did not turn in the questions for Act 1, Scenes 1, 2 and 3, nor the figurative language homework for Act 1, Scene 1 and Scene 2, time will be given to them to do the homework.

Here’s how to do the figurative language homework:
Look through Act 1, Scene 1 and 2, to find at least three metaphors, similes, personifications, and allusions.

Copy the quotations, explain what the quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile, and allusion.

Page 739 - 740, line 135 – 139

Allusion and personification:
“But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)
The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed…”

Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.

Regina:
Page 745; line 14
Capulet: “Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she.”
Personification
Capulet is saying that all his other children have died except for Juliet. She is his last hope for posterity.

Read Romeo and Juliet:
Act 1, Scene 4
Mercurial: adjective to describe someone who is emotionally erratic. They have swift mood changes.

Mercutio is Romeo’s best friend, who is funny, charming, moody, and mercurial. 
(Notice that Mercutio’s name is very similar to the word “mercurial” which means moody, which also describes Mercutio. This was intentionally done by Shakespeare to clue the audience in on what kind of character they were watching.)  
Discussion of Queen Mab’s speech
Why does Mercutio tell Romeo about Queen Mab? What is he trying to do?
Who is Queen Mab?
What does she do at night?
What does she do if she gallops across your face in her tiny coach and smells your stinky breath?
Read Romeo’s last speech on page 755, Act 1, Scene 4. What is he saying? This is an example  of foreshadowing.
Foreshadowing is a literary device used by a writer to hint at something which will happen later on in the story, the play, or the movie.

Read Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5
Please answer the following questions for homework:
Comprehension Questions over Act 1, Scene 5:
What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
What are Lord Capulet and his cousin discussing?
Who does Romeo see for the first time at the party?
Unfortunately, who also sees Romeo at the party?
What does this person want to do to Romeo?
What does Capulet say to Tybalt?
What does Tybalt threaten to do after the party?
What does Romeo compare his lips to on page 758?
What does Romeo compare Juliet to on page 758?
What does Juliet predict for herself if Romeo is married?
Why is this foreshadowing? 
Do Romeo and Juliet know the identity of each other when they first meet?

Period 3:

Kahoot.it.com – review of Act 1
Pair up to look through the entire Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet for three examples of metaphors, three examples of similes, three examples of personification, and three examples of allusion, and do the following:
Copy the page number, the line number, identify the speaker, copy the quotation, explain what the quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile, and allusion.

Example:
Page 739 - 740, line 135 – 139
Lord Capulet:
“But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)
The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed…”
Example of figurative language: Personification and imagery
Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.

Emily, Ashley, Kristina
Page 737, lines 67
Tybalt
“Heartless hinds”
Metaphor
He is calling the Capulets cowards. Hinds is means deer.

Nicole and Kimberly
Page 736, line 34
Sampson
“My naked weapon is out.”
Metaphor
He is saying that his sword is unsheathed and ready to fight!

Emily, Ashley, Kristina
Page 738, line 85 – 86
The Prince is speaking
“You beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage/With purple fountains issuing from your veins.”
Example of figurative language: Metaphor, imagery
Explanation: You animals! Who quench your love for fighting by spilling blood!

Timerica:
Page 743, line 210
Romeo is speaking
“With Cupid’s arrow, she hath Dian’s wit…”
Example of Figurative Language: Allusion
Explanation: Romeo is discussing Rosaline with Benvolio and explaining she cannot love him because she is a follower of Diane who is the goddess of chastity!

Page 743, line 215
Romeo is speaking
“Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.”
Example of figurative language: Metaphor
Explanation: Romeo is saying – obviously with some frustration – that not even gold will seduce Rosaline to love Romeo

Page 743, line 216 - 217
Romeo is speaking
“O, she is rich in beauty, only poor”
That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store!
Irony
Romeo is saying that even though she is beautiful, she will be poor for when she dies she will not leave behind any children.

Yubendi, Tyron
Jaynise, Lynn
Page 752, line 25
Romeo is speaking.
“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,”
Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like a thorn.”
Example of figurative language: personification and simile
Explanation: Romeo is speaking to Mercutio about love and is saying love is not a tender thing at all, but loud and rude and it hurts the lover like a thorn.

Nicole, Kimberly
Page 758, Line 92
Tybalt is speaking
“Patience, perforce, with willful choler meeting
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.”
Example of figurative language: personification and imagery
Explanation: Tybalt has just spotted Romeo at the Capulet party and is enraged that a hated enemy would trespass. He wants to fight Romeo but is sternly scolded by his uncle to restrain himself and behave. Tybalt, for the moment, will be obedient to his uncles’ wishes, but says that he is so angry right now that being forced to be patient is making his flesh tremble with this enforced restraint.

Vocabulary:
Patience perforce: enforced self restraints, enforced patience
Choler: rage

 Page 758, Line 97
Romeo is speaking:
“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”
Example of Figurative Language: Personification and Imagery
Explanation: Romeo is comparing his lips to pilgrims who are ready to smooth the roughness of his touch with a tender kiss.

During Elizabethan times, religious symbols were frequently used with romantic love. The man was seen as a pilgrim, and his beloved  was seen as a saint or as a goddess.  There were poetic references to the man worshipping at the altar of his beloved. 





Thursday, May 5th:
1st Period:
BIC
8:00 – 8:20
Pair up to look through the Act 1, Scenes 1, 2, and 3 of Romeo and Juliet for three examples of metaphors, three examples of similes, three examples of personification, and three examples of allusion, and do the following:
Copy the page number, the line number, identify the speaker, copy the quotation, explain what the quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile, and allusion.

Example:
Page 739 - 740, lines 135 – 139

Lord Capulet:
“But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)
The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed…”
Personification and allusion and imagery

Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.

Regina:
Page 745; line 14
Capulet: “Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she.”
Personification
Capulet is saying that all his other children have died except for Juliet. She is his last hope for posterity.

Page 738; lines 85 – 86
Prince:
“You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins!”
Figurative Language:  Personification, imagery
The prince is trying to stop the Capulets and Montagues from fighting. He is telling them that their destructive, cancerous rage and thirst for fighting can only be quenched by the spilling of blood.

Pernicious: slowing moving destruction, that which is insidious, working slowly, undetectably to destroy

Rage: angry

Jonathan:
Page 739, lines 119
Benvolio:
“Madam, an hour before the worshiped sun
Peered forth the golden window of the East…”
Example of figurative language: Personification, imagery
This means an hour before the sun rose.

Iambic Pentameter:

(Ma dam)  (an hour)   (before)  (the wor)  (shipped sun)
Iambic pentameter
Iam = two syllables
Penta = five
Meter= rhythm

Did the Shakespeare Insult Sheet
Divided the students into groups of two and had them select an insult from column A, column B, column C and hurl the insult at their rival gangs. 

Period 3: 

 
Important Due Dates:

May 5th is the last day you can turn in your late work!!!!!
May 10th is the last day you can turn in your AR test and your AR reading  log.
May 6th is the due date for your questions over Act 1 Romeo and Juliet
May 5th is the due date for your Figurative Language Classwork. Please email it to me or place the classwork in the wire basket on the stage.

The handouts:
The Open Book Act 1 Test will be due when I return next week.
“The Blank Verse, Rhymed Verse, and Prose” – this is homework. Please bring to class on Tuesday, when we will go over it.

Oxymoron Handout
Contradictory: something which is composed of contradictions or things which are opposites.
Contra = against
Light -  light heavyweight
Vague  - vague definitions
Bitter - bittersweet -
Strangely - strangely familiar
Civil War –

Civil has two meanings: within a country; for example, a civil war is when a country is at war with itself, with two or more large groups of people fighting for power to control the country. The other meaning is acting in a polite, civilized manner. So a civil war is an oxymoron because people act in the most uncivilized, violent manner possible during a war. 

Fresh frozen: How can something be fresh and frozen?

Unbiased: a conclusion which is based on fact and not opinion. So how can an opinion be unbiased?

Friday, May 6th: 

1st and 3rd Period: 

I will not be present in class on Friday or Monday. Here are the assignments for you on those two days: 

Watch Romeo and Juliet, the film.

Answer the fourteen questions over the film in complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper. This will be due on Tuesday, May 19th.  

Questions and Notes on the film Romeo and Juliet
Please answer in complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper.

1.    Describe the setting in the first scene using at least ten adjectives in complete sentences.
2.    How would you describe the attitude of the men fighting in Act 1, Scene 1?  Were they serious or having fun? Give specific examples from the film to support your statements.
3.    How is the first scene in the film different from the first scene in the play?
4.    What element of Tybalt’s costume was the most cat-like? What does this say about Tybalt’s character? Describe Tybalt using five adjectives in complete sentences.
5.    Describe Romeo using at least six adjectives in complete sentences.
6.    What were Lord Capulet and Paris discussing?
7.    Describe the relationship between the Nurse and Juliet in Act 1, Scene 3 in the film. Use six adjectives in complete sentences to describe their relationship.
8.    Describe Lady Capulet using six adjectives in complete sentences.
9.    What did her head dress remind you of? Do you think this was intentional on the part of the director and costume designer? What does this say about the character of Lady Capulet?
10.  Describe Mercutio’s character using six adjectives in complete sentences. Discuss Mercutio’s relationship with Romeo. Do you feel that he is a good friend to Romeo? Give at least three examples from the film to prove your point.
11. Describe the party in the film using at least ten adjectives in complete sentences.
12. Was the party in the film better or not as good as the way you imagined it?  How was it better? Or how was it not as good?
13. Did the film allow you to understand the play better? Which film scenes from Romeo and Juliet were the most interesting to you? Which film scenes made the play come more alive for you?
14. Did you like the film? Why or why not? Give at least three specific reasons and examples to prove your point.

 








 

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