May 1, 2017 - May 5, 2017 Ninth Grade English Agenda

Monday, May 1st: 

Lesson Plan: 

Romeo and Juliet

The Prologue 

Vocabulary:

Loins: from their bodies

Foes: enemies

Civil: to be polite or cordial 

Civil: means to be part of the same country or to be part of the same community

Mutiny: to disobey a commanding office!!!!!

Piteous: arousing pity

Misadventured: an adventure that turned out badly!

Strife: discord, suffering, turmoil, troubles, fighting

Nought: (archaic = so old it is no longer in use; out of date) nothing

Continuance: to continue

Pair up and paraphrase each line of the prologue of Romeo and Juliet.

Paraphase: to put in your own words.

Then together, we will piece the prologue together.  Each pair who pieces together part of the prologue will get points.

Gina:

Two households, both alike in dignity –

Two families who are equal in wealth and social status

Safia:

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene –

The story takes place in Verona (It is a city in northern Italy)

Shianne:

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny –

An old feud suddenly broke open again

Carolina:

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean –

Death of a neighbor makes the neighborhood hands unclean

Malia:

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

From two families that are enemies

Shianne, Safia:

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;

Lovers born under an unlucky star kills themselves;

Or

Lovers’ whose love was cursed by the stars killed themselves.

(Some people believe in astrology which is the belief that the stars rule our destiny. If you are born at a certain time, the alignment of the stars will determine your destiny.)

Safia:

Whose misadventures piteous overthrown –

The failed tragic adventure

Shianne:

Do with their death bury their parents’ strife –

Their deaths ended their parents’ feud

Jasmin, Safia, Ashanti:

The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love –

The frightening story of the death cursed love

Ashanti:

And the continuance of their parents’ rage –

The continuation of their parent’s  feud

Tuesday, May 2nd: 

Pair up and paraphrase each line of the prologue of Romeo and Juliet.

Paraphase: to put in your own words.

Then together, we will piece the prologue together.  Each pair who pieces together part of the prologue will get points.

Gina:

Two households, both alike in dignity –

Two families who are equal in wealth and social status

Safia:

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene –

The story takes place in Verona (It is a city in northern Italy)

Shianne:

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny –

An old feud suddenly broke open again

Carolina:

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean –

Death of a neighbor makes the neighborhood hands unclean

Malia:

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

From two families that are enemies

Shianne, Safia:

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;

Lovers born under an unlucky star kills themselves;

Or

Lovers’ whose love was cursed by the stars killed themselves.

(Some people believe in astrology which is the belief that the stars rule our destiny. If you are born at a certain time, the alignment of the stars will determine your destiny.)

Safia:

Whose misadventures piteous overthrown –

The failed tragic adventure

Shianne:

Do with their death bury their parents’ strife –

Their deaths ended their parents’ feud

Jasmin, Safia, Ashanti:

The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love –

The frightening story of the death cursed love

Ashanti:

And the continuance of their parents’ rage –

The continuation of their parent’s  feud

Jazmin:

Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove –

The parents’ feud only ended when their children died

Only their children’s death could stop or end their feud

Carolina:

Is now the two hour’s traffic of our stage;

This is the story of the next two hours on our stage

Ashanti:

The which if you with patient ears attend;

If you sit down and listen to the story patiently

Safia:

What here shall, our toil shall strive to mend.

What the prologue misses in the summary, our work (the play) will make up.

Iambic Pentameter:

 (Two house) (holds, both) (a like) (in dig) (ni ty)

Iamb is two syllables

Iambic pentameter is a line in poetry which has five iambs (or ten syllables) per line of unstress/stress

(In fair) (Ve ro) (na, where) (we lay) (our scene)

Wednesday, May 3rd:  
Silent Sustained Reading!
Your third and final AR test and AR reading log are due Friday, May 12th! 

Iambs!

Two syllable unit in poetry that is unstressed/stressed

 Yes, the iamb can occur in the middle of a word:

(Shall I) (com pare) (thee to) (a sum) (mer’s day)

(From an) (cient grudge) (break to) (new mu) (tin y)

Now you do it! Go through the rest of the prologue and divide them into iambs

And the continuance of their parents rage

(And the) (con tin) (u ance) ) (of their) (par ents) (rage)

Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove

(Which, but) (their chil) (dren’s end) (nought could) (re move)

Is now the two hours traffic of our stage

(Is now) (the two) (hours traf) (fic of ) (our stage)

Went over unstress/stress

The following students demonstrated how to do it:

Ashanta

Kimberly

Thursday, May 4th:
Collect homework and packet:
Sonnet 18, The Prologue, and Iambic Pentameter!
Watch Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 

Friday, May 5th:
Silent Sustained Reading
Reading Log!
 Remember: the third and final AR reading log and test will be due on Friday, May 12th. 
Watch Romeo and Juliet!