Friday, March 22, 2013

We worked on understanding "Ozymandias"

We talked about the choice reading that students need to have done by the end of the quarter, and the one page that needs to be written.

We worked in groups on ShakeOff.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

We formed groups for ShakeOff. All groups got their scripts. Everyone should have gotten the scripts cut to appropriate lines. Each individual should have between 6 and 22 lines(each line is five beats). We discussed that Tuesday when we get back after spring break, resubmission of reflective papers should be in to turnitin.com.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

We watched the Macbeth rap. We watched some past Shakeoff performances and discussed what makes a good performance. We took some time to start forming ShakeOff groups.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

We finished the dvd of Macbeth today. In fourth period, we have about three minutes left.

Students should start thinking about what they are going to be, who they want to work with, and how many lines they want to do for the ShakeOff.

When you wrote your reflective essays, you turned them in on Turnitin.com. They have been graded. You need to go in and revise your paper. This will be a 20 point assignment. It is due the Tuesday after we get back from spring break.

You should be reading every day. Choice reading will be due before the end of this quarter. Your grade will depend partly on how many pages you read. Reading 700-800 could be an A.

Monday, March 18, 2013

The Scottish Play Act 5
We acted out the following scenes to finish the play.
Scene 1. Dr., Nurse, Lady Macbeth

Scene 2   Only a recap of the scene:  Scottish lords prepare to join English forces

Scene 3Macbeth, servant, Seyton, Doctor

Scene 4 Malcolm, Menteith, Siward, Soldiers

Scene 5 Macbeth, Seyton Messenger,

Scene 6 Malcolm, Siward, Macduff

Scene 7 Macbeth, Young Siward, Macduff, Siward

Scene 8 Macbeth, Macduff, Malcolm, Siward, Ross

Macbeth video

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Macbeth post test over the first three acts.





5.1 line tossing. we did line tossing with all of the quotes from act 5. We recited them several times, discussed them, and tried to figure who might have said them. Check for your packet for the quotes.

Macbeth video, Roman Polanski directed (1972). We are about a half hour into this. 

Monday, March 11, 2013

Ozymandias (803) worth 20 points. We turned this in today.


We did all of the following scenes today, with the exception of the two scenes below where we have the synopsis of the scenes.

The Scottish Play

3.1 (6) Lady Mac, Mac, Banquo, Attendant, Murderer 1, Murderer 2



3.2 (3) Lady Mac, servant, Mac



3.3 (5) Murderer 1, Murderer 2, Murderer 3, Banquo, Fleance



3.4 (7) Mac, Lords (1) , Lady Mac, Murderer, Lennox, Ross, ghost of Banquo.



3.5 Skip Hecate, Queen of the witches, berates the weird sistersf for leaving her out of things. She joins forces to ensure Macbeth’s ruin.



3.6 Lennox expresses his suspicions of Macbeth. Macbeth has gone to England to obtain the aid of King Edward and Lord

Siward to remove Macbeth.



4.1 Witch 1, Witch 2, Witch 3, Hecate, Macbeth, Apparition 1, Apparition 2, Apparition 3, Lennox.

Friday, March 8, 2013

The Scottish Play 2.3 Porter scene, and 2.4. Watch Ozymandias Particularly pay attention to the images that explain the poem. Now just pay attention to the voice.
Theme: Due Monday: Ozymandias (803) worth 20 points from here on. Summary and theme are required. One page required. Connections, context of poem, author’s skills, favorite line, hardest line are all possible ideas to fill the page. Required to change paragraphs on changing topic. Required at least three citations (Do not make them long citations).

Reminders: Monday , 3-11, Last day for Retakes over Canterbury Final
Monday , 3-11, Ozymandias due.

Textbook online?

You can now access the online textbook for this class by clicking on "Dessert's Class Webpage" on the right. On the right column of the webpage, near the bottom, click on "Online Textbook". You are almost there at that point. Good luck.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Scottish Play. We continued working on 2.2. WE continue cutting, marking up, and performing the act.

2.3 the Porter scene. We will take a initial look at this. We will more on this one tomorrow. Review quotes from the first act of the play. We marked them as to who said them, and we wrote down to whom they were spoken. If the words were soliloquy, we marked them as soliloquy/ aside. That is how the test will work also.

Theme: A statement about the piece that shows what we learn about our own behavior or the behavior of humans in general. This will help you with Monday's assignment below:

Ozymandias (803) worth 20 points from here on. Summary and theme are required. One page required. Connections, context of poem, author’s skills, favorite line, hardest line are all possible ideas to fill the page. Required to change paragraphs on changing topic. Required at least three citations (Do not make them long citations).

 Reminders: Monday , 3-11, Last day for Retakes over Canterbury Final
Monday ,3-11, Ozymandias due.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Review plot of Act I.



The Scottish Play 2.2



Read, Listen, Watch, Cut, Perform Act 2 scene 2 of Macbeth. If you miss class, read it at least three times.















Reminders:

Monday , 3-11, Last day for Retakes over Canterbury Final

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Mark, discuss, hand in “Puedo Escribir”. Evaluate an analysis of the same poem. One page due. ¶1 summary, ¶2 author’s skills, ¶3 connections, ¶4 context of author’s time. Remember first sentence should include author’s name and title of poem.

We then looked at a good example of literary analysis of this poem and we looked at the techniques used.
Look at 2.1 performances of Patrick Stuart's Macbeth and also of Roman Polanski's Macbeth. Compare. Then act out in paraphrase or by cutting. Period 4: finish 2.1 Periods 3 & 4: 2,2
Reminders: Tuesday, 3-5, Puedo Escribir assignment due Monday ,
3-11, Last day for Retakes over Canterbury Final

Monday, March 4, 2013

"Puedo escribir" video- page assignment due tomorrow




Connotation, denotation



1.6 and 1.7 for period 4.

2.1 for periods 3 and 4.





One page due tomorrow. ¶1 summary, ¶2 author’s skills, ¶3 connections, ¶4 context of author’s time.

Remember first sentence should include author’s name and title of poem.





Reminders:

Tuesday, 3-5, Puedo Escribir assignment due

Monday , 3-11, Last day for Retakes over Canterbury Final

Thursday & Friday, February 28 & March 1

Thursday:



Sonnet 23 (Labe) page 321 Mark, discuss, hand in.




Macbeth:  1.3 to 1.4




One page on Sonnet 23 by Labe:  ¶1 summary, ¶2 author’s skills, ¶3 connections, ¶4 context of author’s time.

Remember first sentence should include author’s name and title of poem.


Reminders:

Friday, 3-1, Canterbury Final


Friday:

Continue with the Scottish Play. 

1.5

Give them the poem “Puedo Escribir”. Write full page for Tuesday. First paragraph summary, then move on to other paragraphs such as:

Difficult lines

Favorite lines

Author’s skills

Context of the time and the author’s life.

Connections.

"Tonight I Can Write"       ~By Pablo Neruda

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, "The night is starry
and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance."

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is starry and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight tries to find her as though to bring her closer.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. As she was before my kisses.
Her voice, her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.



Pablo Neruda: Puedo escribir

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo: "La noche está estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos."

El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.

En las noches como esta la tuve entre mis brazos.
La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.
Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.

Cómo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.

Oir la noche inmensa, más inmensa sin ella.
Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío.
Qué importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.

La noche esta estrellada y ella no está conmigo.
Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.
Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.


Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.
Mi corazón la busca, y ella no está conmigo.
La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos árboles.

Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.

De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.


Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
Porque en noches como esta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Aunque este sea el ultimo dolor que ella me causa,
y estos sean los ultimos versos que yo le escribo.