TragedyFourth Quarter: 2012

Drill 1(4/10 AFG)(4/11D H) Homework: Act I and Inference Quiz (4/12A)

(4/13DFGH) Status Check 3(4/13D)(4/16AFG)(4/17H) Objective: SWBAT evaluate the differences between the text and

visual representations while focusing on the artist/director’s motives in order to understand the play.

Drill: Take out a sheet of paper and put a proper heading on it.

Create a T-Chart to record differences and similarities between the play and the movie.

Respond to this question in three to four sentences. Do the characters in the movie match the characters

you visualized as you read the play. What is different? What is the same?

Drill 2 (4/11 AF)(4/12GH) Homework: Act I and Inference Quiz (4/12A)

(4/13DFGH) Status Check 3(4/13D)(4/16AFG)(4/17H) Objective: SWBAT analyze relationships between and

among characters, setting, and events in order to make an inference as to the cause of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Drill: Review your goals from the first three quarters. Have you reached your goals? Explain why or why not.

What is your final goal for 8th grade English? Remember to include both a goal and the action needed to reach that goal.

Drill 2 4/13 D Block Homework: Read Act III scene I and complete

notes Status Check 4 4/23 Objective: SWBAT analyze relationships between

and among characters, setting, and events in order to make an inference as to the cause of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Drill: Review your goals from the first three quarters. Have you reached your goals? Explain why or why not.

What is your final goal for 8th grade English? Remember to include both a goal and the action needed to reach that goal.

Drill 3 (4/12 A) (4/13DFGH) Homework: Status Check 3 (4/16 AFG)

(4/17H) All finish reading and notes for ACT II. Do not do the BCR. Objective: SWBAT analyze internal and/or

external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot in order to understand the play.

Drill: Review for the quiz. Put name, date, block and Act I/Inference Quiz on the scantron.

Drill 4 (4/16AFG)(4/17HD) AFGH take out status check 3 and works cited page

Homework: Act II and III quiz (4/24 A)(4/25DFGH) Return the Stevens Forest Field Trip Form

Objective: SWBAT analyze figurative language that creates meaning in order to understand Romeo and Juliet.

Drill: Working with your team each student should complete the similes handout.

Leaders will be asked to share.

Drill 5 (4/17AF)(4/18DGH) Homework: Status Check 4 (4/23 DF)

(4/24AGH) Act II and III quiz (4/24 A)(4/25DFGH) Objective: SWBAT analyze details that provide

information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters in order to understand the play.

Drill: Identify the main and subordinate clauses in the following sentence. I’ll find out your man, and he shall signify from

time to time every good hap to you, that chances here.

Drill 5 continue I’ll find out your man, and he shall signify from time to time every

good hap to you, that chances here. Main Clauses:

I’ll find your man he shall signify from time to time every good hap to you

Subordinating clause: that chances here

What kind of sentence has two main clauses and one or more subordinating clauses?

Compound-Complex Scavenger Hunt: Identify the main and subordinating clauses Circle both main clauses and underline the subordinating clause.

It is a meteor that the sun exhal’d to be to thee this night a torchbearer, and light thee on thy way to Mantua. (Act III:v:13-15)

Main: It is a meteor, light thee on thy way to Mantua Subordinating clause: that the sun exhal’d to be to thee this night a

torchbearer

Drill 6 (4/18A)((4/19DFGH) Homework: Status Check 4 (4/23 DF)

(4/24AGH) Reading as assigned Act II and III quiz (4/24 A)(4/25DFGH) Objective: SWBAT paraphrase lines of

Shakespeare accurately in order to demonstrate understanding.

Drill: Read Act III:1:93-99 Paraphrase Mercutio’s words. Identify the pun.

Act III:i:93-99 Mercutio: No ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor

so wide as a church door; but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague a’ both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us! I was hurt under your arm.

Context clues: What does “Zounds” mean?

What does “rogue” mean?

Drill 7 (4/20AFG)(4/23DH) D block take out Status Check 4

Homework: Status Check 4 (4/23 DF)(4/24AGH) Reading as assigned Act II and III quiz (4/24 A)(4/25DFGH)

Objective: SWBAT analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters.

Drill: Juliet’s Soliloquy Hand Out Juliet is waiting for Romeo. She does not know he has killed Tybalt or

the he is banished. This is her wedding night.

Highlight all references to day one color and all references to night another.

What is this soliloquy about?

Directions Work with your teams Paraphrase each sentence Answer the questions at the bottom of the

paper.

Phoebus literally means radiant one in Greek mythology. He is the Sun God.

Phaethon is the son of the Sun God, Phoebus. He wants proof of his father. He is allowed to drive Phoebus’ chariot pulling the sun across the sky. When he cannot control the chariot and threatens to destroy the Earth, Zeus kills him with a lightning bolt.

Mantle---cape Amorous--love

Francisco Pacheco

Drill 8 (4/23AF)(4/24DGH)Block DFGH Take out Status Check 4

Homework: Act II and III Quiz (4/24A)(4/25DFGH)

Status Check 4 (4/24AGH) Reading As Assigned Objective: SWBAT paraphrase lines of

Shakespeare accurately in order to demonstrate understanding.

Drill: Metaphors handout. Work with your team. Each student will turn in a paper at the end of the drill.

Review for the Quiz Terms to Know: Pun Soliloquy Aside Tragedy Sonnet Meter Oxymoron Know the play well enough to be able to

paraphrase short passages.

Drill 9 (4/24 A)(4/25 DFGH) Block A take out Status Check 4 Homework: Complete Act IV BCR

Objective: SWBAT demonstrate their ability to paraphrase Shakespearean verse.

Drill: Review for the Act II and III quiz Things to look at Act II and Act III notes Similes Metaphors Imagery