Week #36 May 16-20, 2011

Literature: William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Grammar: Revising and Editing, conventions, spelling, punctuation, improving sentences
Vocabulary: NONE ---Yey!!!

Homework:
- Prepare for group presentations. The following will be graded:

• script written in blank verse
• examples of feminine ending
• examples of shared lines
• examples of Alexandria (if there are any)
• accuracy of details in the plot and character portrayal
• use of costumes and props - minimal use or not

- Script - due Friday, May 13 for 1st and 5th periods; Monday, May 16 for 7th periods (Rewrites due date as instructed)
             - The following should be submitted with the script:

• Cover sheet - Title of play, act #, group #, members, and roles played
• Introduction - summary and thematic analysis essay
• Script - with director's cues, music cues, actor's cues in parenthesis or brackets and italicized\

NOTE: Group presentations will be rescheduled. All presentations will begin Tuesday, May 24, since on May 23, all 9th grade classes that had WITS will have big and small assemblies for poetry reading, hence we cannot have any group film presentations then. We will have two presentations a day. Those students who visited this blog last weekend may see considerable changes.

- SAT activity - due Monday, 5/16
- Masks - due 5/23
- Final exam essay prompt will be given one day this week.

Activities
Monday

1. Short Quiz #12.
2. Discuss SAT activity.
3. Continue film viewing.

Tuesday- Wednesday
Continue with film viewing. Let us not interrupt this activity anymore until we finish all viwing and discussions.

Thursday
All students will take the final exam essay.

Friday
All groups will complete their group filming for the project.

Note: Prepare for a unit test next week.

ROMEO AND JULIET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
The project is NOT CANCELLED contrary to rumors!  The only part of the project I did cancel was the individual essay due on www.turnitin.com. Each group is still going to have a thematic essay - not individual ones- and everything else still GOES!!! 

Adjustments have to be made to the due dates. If your group has not had the chance to meet yet to plan the script, don't worry too much. You will have your chance this week. I made this announcement in class early this week. If you didn't listen, then that's why you are confused. I will repeat it again tomorrow.

DO NOT LISTEN TO RUMOR-MONGERS!!!