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week of Feb 13th - we must finish the play this week - the holiday would not be good for memory! The plan for all classes - content (scantron) test on Tues. before the test - highly recommend that you go to the 60 sec. recap site & view 4 short videos on The Plot, Wrap-Up, Meet the Cast (characters) and Summary Overview. We'll take the test in the computer lab so that afterward everyone can work with the computer to go to the Eagle program designed to help you prepare for the End of Course Test, which is a big part of your final grade. WTues. night you'll have a take-home test looking at quotes - impt. TThurs. we'll have an open-book analysis test - looking at figurative lang. / character development / motifs / themes. You will be required to view the 60 sec. recap videos for character (meet the cast), symbols, motif (2 videos) & theme (2 videos). (link below in the text) Lots of info is coming your way to prepare for the 2nd test.
Best way to begin studying - go to the link below to the animated version. It's fun, and you can get a strong, abbreviated view of the entire play w/ the Shakepearian dialogue I've learned that you can download the Kenneth Branagh film via i-tunes, and there are a lot of clips on youtube.
If you're having trouble understanding - No Fear Shakespeare version to help w/ difficult phrasing - http://nfs.sparknotes.com/muchado/ also linked below FFun way to study: Shakespeare & Much Ado in rap style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YriXsbSVaAU Also suggested - go to the link below Animated Much Ado... and study the characters (in a modern high school setting) & the 1st ActNot so much for test 1 on Tues. - Great help w/ Much Ado About Nothing, but don't view too much too early. This is an i-phone app, but all the videos are online though you have to first listen to a commercial. All Much Ado Recapvideos http://www.60secondrecap.com/library/much-ado-about-nothing/
Video help w/ the Act I, sc. 1, 2 & 3, esp. if you will not be in class on Mon. This is from a British production, so all the dialogue is ther. very good – Act I, Scene 1 – complete from Britishproduction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViFQfGjvj_0 Act I, scenes 2 & 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loK5N864bxc&feature=related Movie we'll study in class - Movie - Much Ado About Nothing part 1 - first part of Act I, scene 1 w/ a bit cutout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WST2D9Ht1j0&feature=related see above for link to a No Fear Shakespeare version (Shakespearian dialogue w/ modern adaptation, but please read the Shakespeare first!) Also active :-) vs. passive :-( voice verbs - Lang. text beginning on p. 235 & link to the power pt. used in class (3rd one) & others (4th one is esp. good) http://languagearts.pppst.com/active-passive-voice.html === Quotes – only the first has to belearned verbatim (word for word) Scene1 – Leonatoexplains Beatrice & Benedick’srelationship to the messenger: “There is a kind of merry warbetwixt Signor Benedick and her. They never meet but there’s a skirmish of witbetween them.” Compares beingfriends w/ Benedick to catching a disease that makes you run mad. Then Leonato because he doesn’t know what theaudience does (dramatic irony) tells Beatrice that she’ll never run mad –she’ll never catch the Benedick. What doesBenedick call Beatrice when they meet? “Lady Disdain” (disdain – intense dislike, scorn) Beatrice toBenedick – “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he lovesme.” Benedick’s maincriticism of Hero? She’s short Benedick’sinterested in Beatrice (don’t have to memorized) “There’s her cousin[Beatrice], an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her [Hero] as muchin beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.” Don Predro:“Thou was ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty” [love] - to Benedick Don Pedro: “ Ishall see thee, ere I die, look pail with love.” Benedick: “With anger, with sickness, orwith hunger, my lord, not with love” Benedick – if hemarries hang a sign on him “’Here you may see Benedick the married man’” Benedick isworried he’ll be cuckolded [horns onhis head as in the middle ages]– wife cheats on him. Don Johndescribes himself – “I am a plain-dealingvillain.” Implied gamblingmetaphor – cards face up to go to online text (both lit. & language are provided) http://my.hrw.com 1) put in your username & password 2) click on "go to online text" for the textbook you need (lit. or lang.) 3) easiest way to navigate by page # |
- LHS library research web site - lots of terrific links, esp. Gale Net database To use infotrac outside of the LPSS network (home) – school code: lafa11287 Password (not asked for, but just in case) - Louisiana
- Animated Much Ado About Nothing click on the picture of the animation - fun way to learn!
- Hamlet - Cartoon summary of plot
- Fashion web site for the Web Quest
- WACKY TALES - review parts of speech parts of speech = function
- NY Time article about the attack on 9-11 published the day after found poem from story
- Citationmachine - help you get the correct form for documentation
- Shakespeare Web quest - extra points for 1st Shakespeare test
- Worldbook online login: lpssschools Password: gumbo
- Ebsco research site - login - lpssschools password - gumbo Research databank - not a world wide web site - like going to a library
- good site for rules as well as Interactive grammar exercises- Excellent way to study punctuation & grammar
- Online textbook
- Interactive Grammar Quizes
- about.com - Right vs. Left Brain Quiz for homework assignment - print the Homework / Study Tips for your results
- Levt vs. Right Brain orientation quiz print your results for extra credit
- Right vs. Left Brain orientation print results for extra credit
- "The Interlopers" 1 of several online sites - extra credit for 1st 6 weeks unit test
- Text of Robert Kennedy's speech on the day MLK was assassinated Take Home test
- "Masque of the Red Death" video - reading of the story w/ pictures
- poetry forms & examples - use these to write your own. extra credit (see minimum requirements above) if turned in Monday, Nov. 28th
- "The Gift of the Magi" by O.Henry reading & analysis required before the midterm
- No Fear Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing Shakespearian Eng. (original) along side modern Eng. - try first to read the orignial the way W.S. wrote it.
- fun - a rap version of the play (overview) Much Ado About Nothing overview in rap
