What are we doing in class?Week of January 20-24:
Monday: Return Final Performance Task; Review practice exam; watch "The Art of Asking" and read "Transients in Arcadia." Tuesday: Continue to work on practice exam Wednesday: Watch the TWO (2) TED Talks that will be on the exam; receive a list of exam essay questions (4 of the 6 on the list will be on the exam, you are required to write one of them) *Our exam is on Tuesday January 28th in room 113. It is 2.5 hours in length* Week of January 13-17: Monday: Research/planning period for the final performance task. Lab booked. Tuesday: Roundtable presentations and discussion #1. Not in a roundtable presentation? Your job is to participate by asking questions and making notes. Wednesday: Roundtable presentations and discussion #2. Not in a roundtable presentation? Your job is to participate by asking questions and making notes. Thursday: Roundtable presentations and discussion #3. Not in a roundtable presentation? Your job is to participate by asking questions and making notes. Friday: Final performance task in-class essay reflection. Due at the end of class. Week of January 6-10: Book Club seminars. Not in a seminar? Read your book, work on preparing for your seminar, and/or work on writing a journal/blog entry. Review the calendar to the right for the seminar schedule and journal due dates. Reminder that people in the Starbucked, Columbine, Little Bee, and 1984 group have journals due on Monday January 6th. Week of December 9-13: Book Club seminars. Not in a seminar? Read your book, work on preparing for your seminar, and/or work on writing a journal/blog entry. Review the calendar to the right for the seminar schedule and journal due dates. Week of December 2-6: 1) Finish Hamlet media piece presentations 2) Introduce book club selections and expectations: -choose a book and form a group -make a calendar/schedule for seminars **see the calendar on the right for the dates of seminars and when each journal is due 3) Read the short story "Miss Brill" and practice making active reading notes. Remember that with each journal, you will need to submit your active reading notes and your active listening notes from the seminars. 4) Hand out and discuss "Constructing Effective Questions." In groups, practice making an effective driving question for the "Miss Brill" short story. As a class, discuss advantages and disadvantages of each question. Then, plan out what the rest of a seminar based on this question might look like (learning goals, hook, points). The work we did on the SmartBoard with this practice planning is available in the right hand column. 5) Review seminar rubric and discuss what a seminar should look like/sound like. 6) Review Hamlet journals and journal rubric. Discuss what a good journal looks like. 7) Begin seminars on Friday! Week of November 25-29: Monday: Tutorial topics 2 & 7 Tuesday: Tutorial topics 1 & 3 Wednesday: Tutorial topics 6 & 8 **when you are not in a tutorial, you need to be working on your Hamlet creative media piece** Thursday: Hamlet media piece is due! Present your media piece. Be sure to discuss purpose and audience. Friday Week of November 18-22: Monday-Wednesday: work on tutorial prep and/or Hamlet media piece Thursday: SHAKESPEARIENCE Workshop in the outer library Friday: P.D Day *TUTORIALS WILL TAKE PLACE MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. YOUR MEDIA PIECE IS DUE ON THURSDAY OF NEXT WEEK** Week of November 11-15: 1) Finish reading Act V 2) Choose two scenes to complete the pre-viewing planning sheet. This must be done before we see the play on Tuesday. 3) Go to see Hamlet on Tuesday at the Toronto Centre for the Arts! As we watch the play, make notes on your chosen scenes. 4) Wednesday will be an in-class work period on your scene analysis. The scene analysis is due on Friday November 15th. 5) Thursday we will be looking at examples of Hamlet Media creation projects. This will be due on November 26th. 6) Friday is a library orientation session/work period for the tutorial project. Tutorials will take place on November 19th, 20th and 21st. Week of November 4-8: 1) Read Act III, Scene IV and watch the film version of this scene. Consider the purpose of the scene in the play and how the director's choices impact meaning. 2) Read "Gertrude Talks Back." What other characters are left in the shadows? Write a scene from the point of view of another character. 3) Read Act IV and discuss the active reading questions. 4) Review the original journal assignment. Remember that for the revised assignment you will only need to write ONE assessment journal. Look at journal examples and discuss what goes into a good journal. One assessment journal is due on Friday November 8th. 5) Practice "fishbowl" tutorials in preparation for the "real" tutorials, which will take place November 20-22nd. -does Laertes have as much right as Hamlet to seek revenge? -is Gertrude involved in the plot against Hamlet? -should the Fortinbras storyline be edited out of the play? 6) Begin to read Act V and discuss the active reading questions Week of October 28-November 1: 1) Hand back essays. Read commits. Remember that you have one week to complete the rewrite. Rewrite is due next Monday November 4th. You must submit your original essay with the rubric, plus your revised essay with the changes highlighted and labelled. 2) Recap Act II, Scene i. What purpose does this scene serve in the play? Watch the film version. What changes have been made? How does this impact the meaning? 3) Continue to read Act III and discuss the questions 4) Quote explanation practice (in prep for the assessment quiz) 5) Introduce the tutorial assignment. Tutorials will take place November 20, 21, 22. 6) Hamlet assessment quiz on Friday. Done? Prep for tutorials. Week of October 21-25: Monday: -essay due -begin to watch Hamlet movie Tuesday: -finish lecture -assign books and begin to read Act I *as we read, make notes on the guided active reading questions for each act Wednesday: -continue to read Act I and make notes Thursday: Finish reading Act I and making notes Friday: -begin to read Act II and make notes on Act II questions -re-visit Hamlet video in preparation/practice for the scene analysis you will do later in the video Consider: -how does the film differ? Are the changes beneficial? How do they affect the meaning? Week of October 14-18: 1) Essay work period on Tuesday and Wednesday. Reflect on feedback from paragraphs that you handed in last week. Use this to modify your essay. Meet with Ms. Cacilhas to discuss problems/questions and receive feedback. 2) Lecture on intro to Shakespeare (Thursday) 3) Discuss Hamlet unit Know/Understand/Do (KUD) 4) Watch Sparksnotes summary of Hamlet 5) Sign out Hamlet books and begin to read. Discuss Act I questions as we read. Week of October 7-11: 1) Monday is a work period on your Oedipus skits 2) Oedipus skit presentations take place on Tuesday! They will likely roll over into Wednesday. 3) 1 paragraph comparing your choice novel to Oedipus Rex. Paragraph is due in class on Thursday. 4) Thursday we will look at comparative essay examples and discuss do's and don'ts Week of September 30-October 4: 1) Literary Criticism/Oedipus Rex quiz on Monday. Done? Make notes on your handout that compares Oedipus to your choice novel. 2) What is Oedipus's miscalculation? a) Discuss Plato's cave allegory b) Discuss ancient Greek religion/worldview c) Watch video clip from the Matrix of Neo's first meeting with the oracle 3) Finish reading the play and making notes on themes/motifs in Oedipus Rex 4) Introduce Reader's Theatre assignment. Form groups and develop ideas. Lab time is booked on Thursday and Friday of this week to write scripts and summaries. Your group must be prepared to present on Monday October 7th. Week of September 23-27: 1) Discuss "Know Thyself" poem. What is the poem about? How does the form enhance the meaning? What does this teach us about the characters and themes in Oedipus Rex? 2) Watch "60 Second Summary" of Oedipus Rex and read the Theban Legend and cartoon provided: a) What is the background information we need to know about Oedipus and his family? b) What can we learn about Greek religion/the Greek worldview? 3) Watch Community Season 3, Episode 6 ("Advanced Gay"). How is this an example of the Oedipus trope and archetype in modern popular culture? Where else/what other books/tv shows/movies have you seen this trope appear? 4) Read "Aristotle on Greek Theatre" and write a summary of the article using the summary writing skills we learned last week. Homework Tuesday Sept. 24: Summarize final 2 sections of the article ("Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy" and "The Tragic Hero"). 5) Swap summaries with a partner and peer evaluate. Revise. 6) Begin to read Oedipus Rex as a class and make notes on the themes and motifs. Take special note of how these themes/motifs compare to your own book. 7) There will be a quiz on the literary schools of thought and the beginning of the Oedipus unit and play on Monday September 30th. If you know you will be absent, make arrangements with me to write the test beforehand or during another period on Monday. **if you were absent on Friday afternoon, please read up to and including page 38 to be on track for Monday's class** Week of September 16-20: 1) Monday and Tuesday are library work periods on your literary criticism presentations.
2) Presentations take place on Wednesday September 18th and will likely carry over into Thursday's class. During presentations, be sure to take notes! 3) How to write a summary handout. Read and evaluate examples from "Morality of Conviction." Then, write a summary of the article "Aristotle on Greek Tragedy." **"Essay Break it Down" rewrite is due on Thursday September 19th Week of September 9-13: 1) Essay break it down is due! 2) Introduce personal/narrative essay assignment. Due Thursday September 12th. 3) Review examples of "This I Believe" personal essays. Compare with essay rubric to evaluate essay's strengths and weaknesses. 4) Visit the library to select a book to read on your own time. You will compare this book to Oedipus Rex in a formal, literary comparative essay in a few weeks. 5) Review Cornell notes method of note-taking. Practice using Cornell notes while reading this article on literary criticism: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=657bfcfd-98fa-497c-bf3d-bb90820d9214%40sessionmgr15&vid=1&hid=25&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=lfh&AN=39001344 6) Introduce mini research presentations on schools of thought on literary criticism. The library is booked Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Presentations will take place on Wednesday September 18th. WEEKEND HOMEWORK: Begin gathering sources for your research presentation AND continue reading your choice novel **if you wish to rewrite your "Essay Break it Down" you may choose to either read "Don't you Think It's Time to Start Thinking" OR watch Cameron Russell's Ted Talk. Week of September 2-6 1) Course outline and course essential question and enduring understandings. This course will focus on the question: what is justice? 2) Lifeboat activity. What was the just thing to do? What did you take into consideration when determining what was "right"? Why was it so hard to do what is right? 3) Read "The Morality of Conviction." What is the author's thesis? What does he/she think is "right"? How does he/she develop an argument. Watch the first 20 minutes of Michael Sandel's video on justice. Based on the lifeboat activity and the video, write a 1/2-1 page "position paper" on your understanding of justice and its complexities. Consider: what is justice?; obstacles to justice; dealing with injustice; the complexity of morality 4) Review "Intro to Essays" handout. Discuss rhetorical devices, types of essays, and how to develop an argument. Identify ONE device that you were unfamiliar with. Find examples of different devices in "Morality of Conviction." 5) Watch the Ted Talk "The Danger of a Single Story." Complete the "Essay Breakdown" as a class. Copies of the transcript are available at this website: http://dotsub.com/view/63ef5d28-6607-4fec-b906-aaae6cff7dbe/viewTranscript/eng 6) Review the summaries of "The Morality of Conviction." Discuss each example provided. 7) 7 essays will be provided in class (a few are provided here for you, such as "Forget Prince Charming" and "The Death of History is Bunk"). You must choose ONE and complete the "Essay Break Down" independently. This is due on MONDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH |
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