Tag Archives: shakespeare

3/18/2012

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We are in the final countdown to final exams next week. Block 1 Final will be next Tuesday, the 25th. 2nd and 3rd finals will be on Wednesday, the 26th.

This week, we will be reading Othello and writing a haiku for each scene/act that we read. This will be a total of 15 haikus by Friday. There is a template in LMS that you can use.

Today, we read Act 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3.

We also started the haikus today. There is a link for a summary broken down for each scene that will be a huge help when are you working on your haikus.

If you were absent (ALEXIS!), read this scene on your own. 🙂

3/9/2012

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We read Sonnet 29 today – if you need help with understanding this even after we talked about it in class, go check it out on NoFearShakespeare.

Riley gave each of us a copy of the poem, a TP-CASTT paper, and four colored sheets.

Take the four colored sheets and stagger them about an inch apart thusly:

 

Then, fold the bottom over so that you have about eight 1-inch flaps.

Staple the top and then title the foldable Sonnet 29: TP-CASTT.

Cut out the TP-CASTT bits and glue them under the flap. When you look at the section for ATTITUDE, you should see both the bit that you pasted about attitude and the bottom flap with the title.

Pretty easy! All you have to do now is analyze the poem!

At the very end, cut out the poem and glue it on the back of the foldable.

Remember – LMS and Gradespeed will be down over the break. You will not have your school laptops. If you are going to work on your Extra Credit, go print the instructions and look at the example in LMS. For every fifty points you find, you can convert that to 10 points for a major grade. DO IT!

3/8/2012

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It’s back to a normal day here at Vistas – unless you are taking the Exit Level Math TAKS test, that is. Good luck to all testers!

Today in class, we recorded ourselves reciting a Shakespearian monologue from the list Cap’n Riley gave us on Monday. Record in Audacity. Remember, when you are recording, if you mess up, just pause a few seconds, and start the sentence over. You can always edit our your mistakes. There is NO REASON you have to start over every time you mess up.

Make sure you save your file as a mp3 so that it can get graded. If you save it as as the rough draft, you won’t be able to get credit for it.

3/1/2012

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Shakespeare was well pleased with our efforts to find him a dentist, and he now is the proud owner of a brand new (well, a “gently used”) tooth.

In payment, he offers to work us through how to write sweet words.

We started out learning about iambic pentameter with the phrase “I am a pirate with a wooden leg.” Then Riley tried to dance to The Heat of Moment by doing the “pirate shuffly”, but it didn’t work out too well. It was fun to laugh at her. Some classes took video of her “dancing”, so we’ll see if we can get those uploaded.

We then read Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130. You can read these in NoFear, but understand that the original sonnets will be what you see on the final exam.

We ended the day with practicing writing our own Shakespearian sonnet by creating a diorama. The template is in LMS. Riley will print in color, and you can create the foldable yourself!

Riley said don’t worry too much about trying to get the imabic pentameter down – but she did say you need to focus on the RHYME SCHEME and the SYLLABLES!

Turn it in and see if Shakespeare is impressed with your words!

2/29/2012

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Well, the last time we “gamed”, we got in trouble with the authorities for cheating. We were told that we had to prove we were pilgims, and that if we didn’t, we’d be thrown in jail.

Sadly, we did not pass that test. We were thrown in jail for piracy and other horrible acts and are going to have to defend ourselves before the court. But we know nothing of legal defense! We do not have sweet words to convince the judge. We are doomed. DOOMED!

As we sit in cell, bemoaning our fate, we hear the moans of a man in the corner. We cautiously approach and discover that our cell mate is none other than the immortal bard – Shakespeare himself!

He has a horrible toothache, and says that if we can find a reputable dentist for him, he will help us with our defense.

So, today, we read about dentistry in Shakespeare’s time and created a advertisement for a dentist. Use can use either a template in Publisher or you can start the ad from scratch.

Make sure you drop off the ad in the drop box when you are done! This shouldn’t take all 80 minutes, so make sure that you use your time wisely!