Tag Archives: othello haikus

2/24/15 – B

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Today we just worked on the Othello chart.

character chartHere is a brief explanation of each column:

  • Relationship – what is his/her role and relationship to the other characters.
  • Strength – what does this character do well
  • Weakness – what is this character’s downfall
  • Defining moment – What is the moment when we get to see this character’s TRUE colors – who she/he REALLY is.
  • Essential question – What is the one MOST important question to ask the character.
  • Symbol – draw a quick symbol that represents an aspect of that character’s personality, role, or importance.

Here is a sample chart you can look at for a different book:

sample character chart

Then, we finished the Othello haikus.

Easy!

11/21/2014

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Last day before Thanksgiving!

Today we just worked on the Othello chart.

character chartHere is a brief explanation of each column:

  • Relationship – what is his/her role and relationship to the other characters.
  • Strength – what does this character do well
  • Weakness – what is this character’s downfall
  • Defining moment – What is the moment when we get to see this character’s TRUE colors – who she/he REALLY is.
  • Essential question – What is the one MOST important question to ask the character.
  • Symbol – draw a quick symbol that represents an aspect of that character’s personality, role, or importance.

Here is a sample chart you can look at for a different book:

sample character chart

Then, we finished the Othello haikus.

Easy!

Have a great turkey day!

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.

11/18/13

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We only have four more days to wake up early before we get a week off of school!

Progress reports come out tomorrow, but my computer is not letting me grade at home. My help desk ticket is still being “looked at,” but I wasn’t able get much graded before  grades were due. That means for some of you who stayed late on Friday to get get worked turned in, I wasn’t able to grade it. HOWEVER, since I don’t you to be penalized,I am going to grade everything here at school today and if your grade goes up, I will manually change the grade on your progress reports.

As far as classwork is concerned, we just read  Act 4 and did the Othello Act 4 haikus.

Pretty easy! We’ll finish the play tomorrow! 🙂

11/14/13

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Today was a pretty simple day: we read Act 2 and worked on the haikus. We talked about lying by omission, misogyny, and enemas. Please make sure that if you miss a day of class that you actually go back and read the play, not just the summaries. If you are stuck taking the final (good attendance, an 80 average in my class, and good behavior), you will need to know the story. Plus, we are going to write a paper and work on characterization next week – if you just read a summary, it will be much harder to complete these tasks.

11/13/13

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We are starting to read Othello today (Act 1), but before we started reading, we did the Italian Stereotypes based on Jersey Shore.

word storm

The reason we did this (copy this on the back of your Italian stereotype word storm:

Shakespeare chose Italy as the setting for the play Othello because the English had these same stereotypes of Italians. There is no way a GOOD, ENGLISH girl would disobey her father and run off to marry and old, black man.

Afterwards, we read the entirety of Act 1. Some great readers today were Shelden, Madison, Justin ,and Fernanda! If you read along with us, I’ll give you extra credit – up to five points a day. That’s a TOTAL of 25 extra points you can earn. This would be GREAT for people who have turned in a major grade late or people who are gunning for an A (who wants to be a First Mate?)!

Then, we talked about the Othello Haikus that will be due NEXT FRIDAY AFTER THE ENTIRE PLAY IS READ.

othello haiku

There is no way that we can get all 15 stinkin’ haikus done today when we have only read three scenes! If you still need more help with haikus, check this link out!

To make things easier for you, there is a link in BB that gives a summary of broken down by act and scene. Pretty easy!