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- Setting
- Textual obligations/theatrical options – for the whole scene
- Problems/challenges experienced by your groups – solutions
Part 2: Individual Performance
- Interpretation of character- options vs. obligations
- Problems/challenges (at least two) you experienced with your role – solutions
Conclusion
- what did you learn from this process about the play and yourself?
OK my lazy end of year students 🙂 . If you just received a zero for one of the following blog assignments, I have no pity for you. If you want to do them anyway with a slight possibility that I might feel like reading them, here they are:
1. The first assignment was from the last two days before Songkran when school was cancelled. Mr. Harter and I reminded you to check PantherNet to recieve your work for the day. See the blog titled “A Snow Day in Thailand” for a refresher.
2. The second assignment was a debrief on the research paper. Here are the main questions I asked you to reflect upon: What was the most difficult part of the project for you? What have you learned from this – either in terms of your subject matter, or in terms of how to set up and write this kind of paper? What advice would you give up and coming grade 10 students next year?
3. Finally, the last blog response was to look at 3 YouTube videos of the particular Act and scene you are producing for your Staging paper and reflect on the three clips after you have embedded them onto your blog. See the blog post for more info.
Keep up with your work!
Here are a few reminders:
1. Please make sure you follow the updated schedule for Othello.
2. In addition, I have sent each of you a Google Doc with the text for your performance (go to PantherNet and click on gmail, you will find a message from me on your school account). You need to edit your text with your group members and decide what you want to say, what you don’t want to say, etc. Your final script is due on Thursday (period 6) and Friday (periods 5 & 7) before your quiz on the lines. Performances will be held on Monday and Tuesday in class. The Staging Paper is due on May 24, and May 25th.
3. Your homework tonight is to look at a minimum of 3 stage performances on youtube of the Act and scene you will perform in class. On your ePortfolio/blog, include 3 links to these videos and write a small review of these performances. Some things you may want to include are: what did you learn from watching these performances; what did you see or hear that you hadn’t heard/seen before; what is different between these scenes; what ideas do you now have by looking at different interpretations of this scene? Your entry should be approximately 200-300 words of reflection.
Attached you will find a reading schedule for the rest of the year. Even if school is canceled, you are to keep up with our class reading at all times.
Hi guys,
Since you are home for a few extra days, here are a few things you need to do to stay on top of things while being splashed with water and avoiding the chaos downtown. . .
- Complete the following pre-reading activity for Othello
- Look over and review the following Othello vocabulary
- Review the Annotation Tips for Othello
- Look at the Othello Background Info Presentation
- Read Act One of Othello
- Respond to one question from this Blog Response on your blog/ePortfolio
See you next week! When you return from Songkran, we immediately have MAP testing in the library web 2.0 room. Enjoy your break from school!
To be prepared for your Book Club discussion next class, you must:
1. Pick one passage or scene from what you’ve read that you want to share with the group. You need to tell why you selected it… be sure to go deeper than just “I liked it” or “it was my favorite” tell us WHY!! (I loved the author’s choice of language, the dialogue, the use of symbolism)
2. Develop two questions (not yes or no questions) as discussion starters. If one question is a “would you” question, then the other has to be different.
3. Find one example of a literary device
4. Bring something you have a question about. For example, some vocabulary words you don’t understand, part of the story you don’t understand or something that needs clarifying.
Be prepared to discuss your Independent Reading with your table. If you are not prepared for class, you will regret it.
Y5our Paper is due NEXT class. This will include the following:
- Title Page
- MLA Outline
- The Research paper
- Works Cited
This paper needs to be turned in to www.turnitin.comthat morning. You should also post this paper on your ePortfolio. Continue reading your novel for Independent Reading.
So now you have begun the final step of the Research paper process: the draft (1st draft due next class)! Here are a bunch of links to some handouts to help you along the way.
Need help? Come see me and use the Writing Workshop model in class to your advantage!
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