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1/6/2017

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What better way to torture you guys on a Friday than by making you watch Jersey Shore?!?! Okay, maybe not a whole episode, but we watched a trailer and then and discussed why people were upset with it because of racist stereotypes.

Then, I gave each group an an article about Jersey Shore and each group did a 3-2-1 summary of it. We also answered some independent questions in Blackboard (Grading Period 4: Othello > Setting > Independent Questions).

The big reason we did this today is because the same stereotypes that Jersey Shore encourages are the reasons that Shakespeare chose Italy as the location for this play. There no way that a good, obedient English girl would disobey her father and have an unnatural relationship, but an Italian girl? They’re cray cray!

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We are going to start to read Othello on Monday – have a great weekend!

2/12/2015 – B

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We started class out by doing the Othello anticipation guide.

Then, we watched a couple of videos about Italian stereotypes and discussed those. Louis was a little unhappy with the guy in video 1, but other than that, we agreed with most (if not all) of what he was saying.

Then, you chose an article about Jersey Shore and did the Jersey Shore Analysis.

Jersey ShoreWe talked about why Othello chose Italy as the setting for his play Othello:

settingThen, the last thing you did was discuss Italian stereotypes and what we can do to end prejudice.

4/22/14

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Good luck to the TAKS testers today! (and the rest of the week!) We miss you! The good thing is that out of all the days to miss, this is probably the easiest week to make up on your own. Yes, you will have some make up work, but it’s all pretty easy.

Today, we talked about Jersey Shore and why people were upset with it. We watched a clip and tried to identify offensive stereotypes that the show promotes about Italians and people with Italian ancestry.

Then, I had you choose an article about the Jersey Shore (there are six to choose from) and answer the following questions on a Word document.

Jersey ShoreDrop that like it’s hot, and then I gave you the rest of the class period to finish your Marrow essay (Carpe Diem or YOLO).

Progress Report grades are due today, so the grade that is in Gradespeed will be the grade that is printed (and what Ekster and Gras see!).

11/12/13

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We are officially back in the classroom and starting a new unit today: Othello! In the Othello folder, please print the list of Othello words to One Note. These are all words that are used to describe the main character Othello. Your task: categorize them by POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, of NEUTRAL.

  • If the word is positive, highlight it PINK.
  • If the word is negative, highlight it BLUE.
  • If the word is neutral, highlight it YELLOW.

If you don’t know what a word means, LOOK IT UP. You have the computer right there – it takes maybe seven seconds to do so.

Afterwards, on a Post-It, write a 1-2 sentence prediction over what you think the character Othello will be like BASED on the words on the list!

A lot of those words were stereotypes and racist comments regarding a black man in Shakespeare’s day, and it was a great segue to talking about Italian stereotypes in Jersey Shore.

We watched the trailer for Season 4 and then got with a partner. Each team or group was given a different article to read about Jersey Shore. After you and your partner read the article, answer the following questions:

Jersey ShoreDo this on a separate sheet of paper and turn in with ALL names.

Lastly, you had time to work on the Obituary Diorama Foldable that we talked about last Friday. You can find the instructions here and the word cloud website here.

We start reading Othello tomorrow, so make sure that you keep up with all majors – you don’t want to go on Thanksgiving Break with ZEROS!

9/26/11

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Happy Monday, you Son of  a Sea Cow! ARRGH!

We started today off by writing a response in Edmodo about where we would like to take a pilgrimage to. This is different than a vacation – be specific in your answer.

We then were introduced to the following pilgrims on our trip: the Squire, the Yeoman, the Prioress, the Monk, and the Friar.

We filled in the cheat sheet about those people and we good to go for the day.

PS – leave it to Riley to use Jersey Shore to help teach her lesson for the day. The Squire is all about t-shirt time and JTL (Joust-Tan-Laundry).