Thu, May 5, 2011

Thu, May 5, 2011

Drama
• SSRFF
• Memorization practice: "Set your heart at rest..."
a) I start line, you finish
b) All say in unison
c) One reads passage, someone pantomimes
• Video
• HW: Read Act 3 Scene 1 for a quiz.

Tue, May 3, 2011

Tue, May 3, 2011

AP Literature
• Get Rdg Record Cards to review for AP Exam.
• Hand in MC questions for 2 Restoration prose selections and your MC Test 4, if you finished checking.
• Take MC Test 5, and check selection 1, 2, and 4. Get answers and finish selection 3 and check. Turn in Friday.
• HW: Review Rdg Record Cards.
• HW: Get a good night's sleep this week and eat a good breakfast.

Fri, April 29, 2011

Fri, April 29, 2011

AP Literature
• Hand in essay #1 Practice Test 4.
• Questions 28-41 and check from MC Practice Test 4
• HW: Essay #3 for Pract Test 4 due Mon
• HW: Write 1 MC qstn from first page of Robinson Crusoe, using categories from handout.

Drama
• Hand in homework
• SSRFF
• Practice memory passage
• Read aloud 2.2. up to pg 2, col 1,Lysander

Thu, April 28, 2011

Thu, April 28, 2011

AP Literature
• Hand in your MC qstns for "Strange Fits of Passion."
• MC Practice Test 4, read next passage and answer qstns 13-27. Check answers.
• HW: Write explanations near the qstn for three you missed.
• HW: Essay # 1 for Pract Test 4 due Fri (or Mon)
• HW: Essay # 3 for Pract Test 4 due Mon

Drama
• Choral reading of memory passage
• Student Directors arrange scene with Puck, Lysander, and Hermia
• Watch 1.1 of video.
• HW: Read 2.2.1-163, Practice memorization, & Writing about dreams: Describe a weird dream you have had. Did this dream become useful or predictive in your life? Could you relate the dream to anything that happened in your life?

DRAMA CLASS: Mon & Wed, April 25 & 27, 2011

Mon & Wed, April 25 & 27, 2011

Drama

MON 4/25
• Hand in HW paraphrase of 2.1. 124-140 Titania: “Set your heart at rest”
• Quiz on lines 2.1.124-276

WED 4/27
• Handouts:
--Calendar of lessons,
--copy of memorization speech, &
--2.2. 1-163 script
• Review memory speech paraphrase
• Subtext- single, partner, & 2 scenes from play.

Tue, April 26, 2011

Tue, April 26, 2011

AP Literature
• AR rdg
• At the top of your questions for “Last Duchess” write the categories of the qstns used so far. Use 2 different categories in tonight’s homework.
• Listen to first student-made MC questions, write answers you choose, & discuss. Hand in.
HW: Write 2 more MC qstns for “Strange Fits of Passion” on p 638.

Thu, April 21, 2011

Thu, April 21, 2011

AP Literature
• Hand in your annotations on essays 1,2,3 from Practice Test 3.
• Copy list of kinds of MC qstns used for poems on the AP exam: dramatic situation, structure, theme, grammar and meaning of words, images and figures of speech, important single words, tone, literary devices (metaphor, simile, personification), & prosody (rhyme, meter, sound effects).
• 1-12 MC Practice Test 4 & check.
• HW: Write how you missed the qstns you missed in 1-12 MC Practice Test 4.
• HW: From list above, write 1 MC qstn w/ 5 answers A-E for Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 p 346.

Wed, Apr 20, 2011

Wed, Apr 20, 2011

AP Literature
• AR rdg
• Hand in essay on Open Qstn 3
• Review periodic and loose sentences, where in sentence to place something to emphasize it, sentence parts, clauses (2 kinds & 2 names each), predicate= verb + object + modifiers. Write what you remember about this discussion.
• MC Test 3 answers finished
• HW: Read handout for essays 1,2,3 to find and annotate the following on the handout:
1) something graders look for that you remember doing in your essay.
2) in the student essays: insight, words that you like, etc.