Mon. May 20

BR:

Free Write: What are your thoughts today? It's your last day of high school. Reminiscence over this past year  Have you learned anything about yourself? How have you grown as a person?

Agenda:

• Be sure you can answer all of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" questions that are on Thursday's blog post.
• Review of study guide and tale questions. Teacher will review answers to the final study guide.
• Jeopardy- Students will participate in a review game for the final.

Fri. May 17

Agenda:

• Answer the following questions for Wife of Bath's Tale:

1. Who is the Wife of Bath?
2. What wrongdoing did the knight commit?
3. What was his sentence?
4. Did he find the answer to what women most desire? From who? What is the answer?
5. What did he have to do in return for the answer?
6. What is the central irony of the story?
7. What happens to the old lady and knight in the end?

• Students will continue working on the study guide for final exam.

Monday, we will review all answers to questions from the "The Pardoner's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Tale," and Macbeth.

Thurs. May 16

BR:

What are you looking forward to most as being a high school graduate? What are your academic and personal goals for the next four years? Where do you see yourself?

Agenda:
- Reacquaint yourself with the "Pardoner's Tale," and answer the following questions.

1. Who is the pardoner? What is his role?
2. What is his purpose in telling his tale? 
3. What is Chaucer's purpose?
4. What do the rioters see at the bar? 
5. Who points them to death? What do they find instead?
6. What are the rioter's plans once they find money?
7. What happens to the rioters at the end?
8. What is the overall moral of the tale?

- British music presentation -  Students will present British music and poetic devices. [Yesterday's assignment: Pick a song, and locate at least three poetic devices: imagery, irony, metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, alliteration, personification, and allusion.]
- Students will begin working on the study guide for literary terms and Macbeth portion of final exam.

Wed. May 15

 BR:

Prepare to share your British band or artist. Make sure you pick an appropriate song and locate three poetic devices.

Agenda:

• Students will present the Sociogram projects. Students will be graded on creativity and explanation of detail.
• Students will present British music and poetic devices. [Yesterday's assignment: Pick a song, and locate at least three poetic devices: imagery, irony, metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, alliteration, personification, and allusion.]
• Macbeth Review - Act I review. Students will view Act I of Macbeth as review for final exam.

Tues. May 14

BR:
Make any last minute changes to sociograms if needed.

Agenda:

• Students will present the Sociogram projects. Students will be graded on creativity and explanation of detail.
• Research: Students will research British music. Pick a song, and locate at least three poetic devices: imagery, irony, metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, alliteration, personification, and allusion.
• Macbeth Review - Act I review. Students will view Act I of Macbeth as review for final exam.

Mon. May 13

BR:

Create flash cards on your Ipad of your Macbeth literary terms

Agenda:

• Students will present the Sociogram projects. Students will be graded on creativity and explanation of detail.
• Poetic devices- imagery, irony, metaphor, simile, assonance, consonance, alliteration, personification, allusion.
• "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles- lyrics and poetic devices
• "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zepplin 
• Student research- Students should find British bands to research.

Wed. May 8

BR:

Answer question in Edmodo. 

Agenda:

• Students will finsih discussion questions. Students will answer these individually. Due today. (See Edmodo for details.)
•  Students will continue to work on the sociogram project. 
• Teacher will show example of the explanation needed for the project and to be turned in to Edmodo.
• Teacher will have students compare and contrast the latest version of the film Macbeth to that of the original.

Mon. May 6

BR:

Answer discussion question in Edmodo. What is your fondest memory of your senior year?

Agenda:

• Students will finish Act V questions to be graded and turned in. Act V quiz tomorrow.
• Students will be introduced to the sociogram project: requirements, due dates, examples.See Edmodo for details.
• Students will begin discussion questions. Students will answer these individually. Due Wednesday May 8. (See Edmodo for details.)

 

Macbeth Discussion Questions – Due Wednesday, May 8

1. Evil within vs. evil without. Is evil an outside force, or does it come from within a person? Find  instances in the play to support either theory, or both.
2. How is Macbeth destroyed by evil? Trace the path of Macbeth’s downfall and show how it happens as a consequence of his murdering Duncan.
3. Trace how Lady Macbeth is destroyed by evil. Show how she renounces all human feelings in Act I and seems to be successful. After the murder, follow her downward course into madness and death.
4. Supernatural events occur throughout the play. Discuss their dramatic function. Each time Macbeth encounters something supernatural – the witches, the floating dagger, a ghost – he moves more deeply into evil. List the supernatural events and comment on how each marks a step in Macbeth’s downfall.
5. Describe the way Macbeth and Lady Macbeth influence each other in the play. What effect does Lady Macbeth’s determination to kill Duncan have on her husband? After the murder, how does Macbeth change, and how does that effect Lady Macbeth?
6. How does Shakespeare establish the Macduff is a good man? Show how Macduff’s character is revealed through his actions and reactions. Focus on how he handles himself after Duncan’s murder and after hearing that his wife and children have been killed.
7. Choose a theme to discuss: reality vs. appearance, ambition, violence, guilt, etc. Discuss how this theme is shown throughout the play. Provide at least two examples.
8. Discuss the motif of sleeplessness. When is it first introduced? What does it symbolize? Provide at least two examples of the mention of sleep.

Fri. May 3

BR:

Go to Edmodo and particpate in the poll.

Agenda:

• Watch/Read - Students will continue Act V of Macbeth 
• Summary: Students will summarize Act V in Edmodo.
•  Respond: Students will complete discussion questions, handout given by teacher.

Thurs. May 2

BR:

Update your character and theme chart.

Agenda:

·        Students will read and watch rest of Macbeth, Act V.

·        Students will write a summary, a well-developed paragraph, of Act V on Edmodo.

Wed. May 1

BR:

Take a minute to review Act IV for a short quiz.

Agenda:

• Act IV Quiz - Students will be assessed on their understanding of Act IV.

• Provide a significant quote from Act IV

1. Identify who was speaking to whom, and the context of the quote.
2. Explain why you consider the quote to be significant.

• Act IV question review page 507