The New Semester Begins!

The Holocaust
     Summary
 

How Do We Define Normal?

Take notes on the article.
Write down a minimum of 10 points.


Now answer the following question:

What does it mean to be a "normal" person?
Paragraph 1: Define "normal."
Paragraph 2: What about you is considered "normal."
Paragraph 3: What about you is considered to be "abnormal"

Discrimination
10 Subtle Forms of Discrimination
Supermodel Transformation


Paragraph 1: Tell me about a time when someone you know was treated unfairly because they are "different."

Paragraph 2: Why would someone (or people) treat them differently. We're all human beings, after all, and therefore the same, aren't we?

I'm Different by Iesha Scales

Blue Eye Brown Eye  Part 2
  14 years later



1.  Experiment on College Students
2. College Students Part 2
Discuss






  Experiment on Adults

Final Project

FINAL EXAM:
Test on Romeo and Juliet
You will also pass off your 25 words if you don't do so Tuesday
Students will present their extra credit projects. FUN!!

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Each one of you must memorize 25 words of Romeo and Juliet. You will have to write it these lines from memory on Tuesday the 21st, our last day of class before finals start.

To earn extra credit, you need to perform your lines for the class, either in a video that you film or a short scene from the play that you act out in front of the class.

The grade for this assignment is subjective and top projects will raise your grade one full grade (B to A, etc.). Usually only about 1/4 of the movies or classroom performances are good enough to earn a full grade of extra credit. 

Here's what you'd see in a very good video or performance:

Lines are flawlessly memorized

Lines are delivered with feeling and acting

Costumes and props are used

If filmed, editing is done and credits are added (sometimes subtitles, too).

Note: we will not have enough time for bloopers.
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Tuesday, January 21
Quiz over short story "The Most Dangerous Game"
Read "If I Forget Thee, Oh, Earth . . ." by Arthur C. Clark, the famous science fiction writer who is best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey
Answer questions 5-9 as you read (page 170)

January 13

Watch Di Caprio Romeo and Juliet movie

Notes on Tragedy


Notes: Tragedy

Hero = person who is able to overcome problems in life that no one else can, and he is able to do so because he gains insight or powers ('the force') that others do not have

Tragic hero= a person who is great and should be able overcome problems in life that no one else can, but because of a tragic flaw or tragic mistake, he fails (and usually dies).

Romeo's tragic flaw =

Romeo
Born to high position:   son of great ruler
Knows he can achieve greatness that others don't
      This greatness is:
Mentor/guide =
Tragic flaw =

So, in a way, Romeo is the opposite of a hero. He could have attained true love (marriages were arranged), but he makes a mistake that prevents him from doing so. He dies, as does his best friend and his wife. He is unable to take  his father's place and rule the kingdom with his wife.

Catharsis

Questions:

Why might Romeo and Juliet have been referred to as "star-crossed lovers"?
1.5.45-60 
Give three examples of things that make this line of Romeo's poetic
1. imagery "she teaches the torches to burn bright!"
(you give another example)
2.
3.
 Knowing what you do about iambic pentameter, why do you think that Shakespeare chose to end 2.2.49 with just three words?

Write down three examples of Romeo's impatience (he jumps into things)

Quotes from Romeo and Juliet

Friday, January 10

Discuss the meaning of Sonnet 29
Notes on Tragedy
Watch Di Caprio Romeo and Juliet movie

January 9, 2014

Read Sonnet 29, by William Shakespeare

As you read the sonnet that I have printed for you, show me where the following things are:
1. a stanza (use arrows)
2. a couplet
3. an accented syllable and an unaccented syllable
4. what does iambic mean?
5. what is pentameter?
6. write in the rhyme scheme for the entire poem using letters (A's and B's, etc.)

Then, at the bottom of the paper, translate the poem into modern English (to the best of your ability!)

January 8--insult one another

Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18 explanation
Journal: Write 1/2 page explaining what  the message of the 18th sonnet is.
Be sure that one of your paragraphs follows standard form:
     Topic sentence (your idea)
     Example (quote it)
     Explain how it supports your idea
     Sum up (similar to topic sentence)
Sonnet 18 Rap
Finish notes
Sonnet 29
Shakespearean insults
Watch Shakespeare in Love

Best ones from plays: Insults (see the long one from King Lear!)
Write a short note to someone insulting them in Shakespeare's style
"Thou art a knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

Shakespeare's sonnets: Best Shakespearean Sonnets (according to me)

Words Shakespeare invented: Shakespeare's words

SONNETS
Sonnet 18 Rap
Sonnet Notes:
Shakespearean sonnet, also known as Elizabethan sonnet
(Queen Elizabeth was the queen during Shakespeares time: 1558-1603 and Romeo & J 1591)
Characteristics of Shakespearean sonnet:

• 14 lines
• 3 stanzas, 1 couplet
• stanza = paragraph
• couplet = two lines
• rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
• iambic pentameter
• meter = the rhythm of the line of poetry
• each line of a sonnet has 10 syllables and they alternate from unaccented to accented
• shall I / comPARE / thee TO / a SUM/ mer's DAY?/
• iambic means it goes ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH, ta-DAH (other poems have the accent on the first syllable, like "By the shining Big-Sea-Water," and this is trochaic instead of iambic)
• each of these units is called a "foot," and sonnets have 5 feet with 2 syllables each--a total of 10 syllables