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1/25/2017

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Today, we finished the play by reading Act 5.2. Afterwards, we watched the Othello Rap and then played a Kahoot review. The review questions were from SparkNotes – you can take the quiz here if you want to review it on your own. The questions are a little more specific than I’m going to ask on the test – I like to ask questions that are skill based rather than basic recall.

Our test is on February 9th, so I’ll be doing short reviews most days so that you don’t forget details before then.

Tomorrow, we will be meeting in the auditorium for the play preview. This is where we will be sitting: down front in the middle rows J, H, and G!

11/20/2014

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Today, we finished Othello when we read Act 5.

We talked a lot about Desdemona and her inaction, what she could have done, and what she SHOULD have done.

We talked about Othello and why he committed suicide the way he did – was it to send his soul to Hell faster, or was it to escape living with the guilt of what he did?

Act 5 went by VERY quickly – we had LOTS of time to work on haikus and I even played the movie Othello. We’ll finish it tomorrow.

This is one of the images that we looked at today –  a canopy bed:

So tomorrow, the haikus will be due AND we’ll do the character chart. These two things will add up to a major grade – 150 points!

Hooray! We only have one more day to wake up early before the Thanksgiving break!

4/29/14

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We finished Othello today! As promised, we read an act a day.

First Block thought it was hilarious that Porfiro, who was reading at Iago, got to call me a “notorious whore” (multiple times, actually) and a “piece of trash.”

The Othello haikus will be due tomorrow. The haikus will be half a major grade (75), and the character chart will be the other half (75 points).

haikuAlso, I have provided an extra credit opportunity for you if you’d like. Just know that I am not allowed to give you over a 100 on your final grade, so if you end up with a 102, I can’t give you what you actually earned.

In Othello, there is a discussion board named Othello journals that you can do for some extra credit – I’d suggest doing this especially if you have LATE points taken off of your Marrow Essay.

othello extra credit

11/19/20

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Act 5! That’s it! We are officially done reading Othello as of 1:45 this afternoon! Thank you to all of the people who volunteered to read (and those of you who were forced to read 🙂 ). Also, thanks to those who just read along in class. I really appreciate it – it makes my job much easier when I don’t have to babysit people while reading play.

After we finished reading, we just worked in haikus. Those will be due tomorrow, so if you don’t get them all done today, you might have some time tomorrow to work on them – it just depends on how quickly you work.