Sonnet Explication

1. Happy Happy Merry Merry
See you next year
2. Lab 313 to work on sonnet
· Print a copy for each member of the group
· Explicate (rhyme, 10 syllables ofstress/unstress, identify vocabulary words and poetic devices like simile, alliteration)
· Explain each line in your own words
· Explain each quatrain and couplet
· Identify the metaphor/theme
· Don’t plagiarize – identify the source
· Type both the explication and explanation
3. Memorize and present Jan. 6th

Sonnet Assignment

1. Sonnet sign ups yesterday
2. Discuss Field Trip Expectations and Etiquette
3. Write your name on your ticket
4. Work with your sonnet group
· Research sonnet (Fear No Shakespeare and google)
· Explicate and explain each line
· Define words
· Explain each quatrain
· Identify rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter
· Memorize lines
· Bonus: Write a sonnet, a parody,
· Identify the theme and metaphor
· Identify all of your sources (no plagiarism)

Sonnet 18

1. Powerpoint on sonnets – take notes
2. Sonnet 18
3. sonnet assignment – choose wisely your group partner

FYI plus sonnets

1. 25 tickets left for the field trip
2. Sign up for captains and platoons today
3. Complete the FYI sheet by recording three things learned in each box
4. Introduction to sonnets

A Midsummer Night's Dream Acting

1. A few tickets are still left for the field trip
2. Finish acting the play
3. Students without acting points will perform scenes today
4. Answer questions after each scene and turn into the basket
5. Memorize famous quotations from play

Acting - A Midsummer Night's Dream

1. Field Trip money & permission slip to Ms. Schmeisser after class (only a few tickets left)
2. Finish acting out “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
3. Skits assigned for students who have not acted yet
4. Points assigned for participating in acting

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1. Collect field trip money and permission slips (the field trip is in one week)
2. Review Act I of A Midsummer Night’s Dream before acting it out

Finish Insult Skits, Journal, Introduction

1. Collect field trip money and permission slip
2. Finish insult skits
3. Award Subway to winners
4. Assign reading parts for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
5. Journal #1 due in basket today

Perform Insult Skit

1. Practice skit aloud for 10 minutes
2. Staple rubrics on top of typed script for me to grade.
3. When performing, either read or explain the setting and characters
4. Vote for your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice on program
5. Winners receive a free Subway

Typed script today

1. Field Trip Money ($16.00 plus signatures)
2. last day to turn in signed syllabus for 10 points
3. Quizzes during advisory: Aaron A., Jacob M., Jacob W
4. type script (20 insults plus stage directions and additional information like actions, movement and more dialogue besides insults)
5. Practice script before Monday’s performance
6. On Monday: read setting the stage, then perform the script (be familiar with your lines or you will stumble on words in insult skit) Winners receive a Subway

Setting the Stage paragraph due typed

1. collect signed syllabus
2. Check in setting description (one page typed) for 10 points
· Describe two characters (age, sex, occupation)
· Describe (time of day, place, etc.)
3. Write script
4. Type script in lab
5. Practice script
6. Performance on Monday for 30 points

Quiz on Shakespeare/Elizabethan Theatre

1. Field Trip Permission Slip
2. collect signed syllabus – 10 points
3. Study 5 minutes for the quiz
4. Quiz – 15 points (True/False and Fill in the Blank)
5. Finish writing 10 insults
6. Pick a partner
7. Write the setting/insult skit combining 10 insults each for 20 insults

Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre Notes

1. Review Syllabus – sign & get parent signature
2. Review Calendar
3. Intro to Shakespeare Notes – 25 points
Missing: Aaron Abbott, Ryan Connoy, Jacob Mackmurphy, Joseph Pribula, Jennifer Stromberg, Alannah, Theis, Betty Vang, Davian Workman
4. Take notes on Elizabethan Theatre
5. Quiz tomorrow on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre
6. Start Insult Skit