Literature:Four of Emily Dickinson's Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson set to music by Aaron Copland / Emily Dickinson's "I watch the Moon Around the House"/ Jack Prelutsky's "The Witch"/ William Shakespeare background
Grammar: Focus on appositive and absolute phrase
Vocabulary: RJ #s 609-633 - mutiny, choler, foe, brawl, canker, forfeit, defiance, scorn, pursue, shun, augment, portentous, importune, envious, shrift, transgression, propagate, assail, posterity, languish, heretic, splendor, warrants, benefice, idle
Homework:
- Vocabulary SAT notes - due every Thursday
- Sentences - due every Friday
* For #s 609-620, write sentences with an appositive phrase. Identify the parts of the sentence (S- subject, V- verb, LV- linking verb, DO- direct object, IO- indirect object, PA-predicate adjective, PN- predicate nominative)
* For #s 621-633, write sentences with an absolute phrase. Identify the parts of the sentence (S- subject, V- verb, LV- linking verb, DO- direct object, IO- indirect object, PA-predicate adjective, PN- predicate nominative)
- Individual Reading Project - March 28, 2011
Activities
Monday
1. Benchmark test. Go over the test after it is done.
2. Finish the group poetry writing and present and do an impromptu setting of poem to music.
3. Discuss poetry terms: enjambment, ceasura, and endstopped. Find examples in the Dickinson poems.
Tuesday
1. 5th and 7th period will have WITS with Ms. Hagle.
2. In 1st period, each group will continue with their project: poetry with anaphora set to music using the word matrix.
NOTE: Quiz is postponed until Wednesday or Thursday.
Wednesday
1. 5th and 7th period will have Quiz #8
2. Each group will continue with their project: poetry with anaphora set to music using the word matrix.
3. Each group will prepare their poem with anaphora set to music, and present in front of the class.
Thursday
1. Possible presentations of groups that did not get to present.
2. Read on William Shakespeare in the Literature textbook. Read and discuss Shakespeare’s background in the Literature textbook.- Take note of details in W.S. life, the theater, and W.S. contributions in the English language.
Friday Read, take notes, and discuss the elements of Shakespearean drama. - Tragedy - Tragic hero - soliloquy - aside - blank verse - iambic pentameter
