these mortals be!"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act 3 Scene 2 line 115
oh well, it snowed again...reshuffle!
Senior English
Tuesday February 8th: BRING YOUR COSTUMES AND PROPS
Presentations of your group's scene
COMPLETE THE READING OF MACBETH
Wednesday-Test over Macbeth/complete Polanski's Macbeth
Friday- group presentations of your scenes BRING YOUR COSTUMES AND PROPS
ENGLISH 11 1A
Unit 4 grammar workbook CLAUSES, PHRASES, SENTENCES, RUN ONS, FRAGMENTS
complete pages that your group was unable to complete in class for homework.
Thursday: HOMEWORK PASS SUPER BOWL will take place between your assigned groups to review these grammar structures. SNOW UPDATE SNOW UPDATE SNOW UPDATE...we will do this on Monday 2/14/11 !!!!!
homework: COMPLETE UNIT 4 PREPARE FOR TEST ON WEDNESDAY FEB. 16
ENGLISH 11 2A
Monday: continue study of Harlem Renaissance literature. Explore the two types of Sonnets, rhyme scheme meter, structure, and form.
Complete the handout on the Sonnet for homework and be prepared for an in class quiz over the worksheet on Thursday.
Additionally, we will discuss all of these elements and more literary devices employed in Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel"
Here is a bonus question: During the Harlem Renaissance what was "the Dark Tower"?
AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
On Tuesday we will be completing the multiple choice questions over "In Cold Blood." We will analyze the questions and answers together after everyone completes the tests. Wednesday and Friday we will write a timed essay on prompts from the novel. I am very glad that I have the privilege of seeing you 3 times this week, 2 classes a week seems very insufficient for AP work.
INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
Go to this website and read the play A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM http://quarles.unbc.ca/midsummer/midsummer1.html
vocab words for this play: http://quizlet.com/2334038/english-final-exam-a-midsummer-nights-dream-flash-cards/
We will begin our study of this most beloved comedy by examining plot structure, themes, types of characters, doubling within the structure of the play, appearance versus reality
Shakespeare borrowed the characters of Theseus and Hippolyta from Greek mythology. Theseus was the
national hero of Athens. He was a friend of Heracles (Hercules) and the survivor of many adventures,
including his slaying of the Minotaur, a creature half man and half bull. Hippolyta was Queen of the
Amazons, a group of female warriors. Theseus took her prisoner and then married her.
Definition: a dramatic foil is a minor character who resembles or is in parallel circumstances to a central figure in the play. Foils are similar enough to the main character(s) to provide a useful basis of comparison, but different enough that the comparison is meaningful: they enhance our understanding of the main character's personality traits or actions.
Metaphor Analysis
There are four distinct groups of characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and they all use language in a distinctive way. Theseus and Hippolyta speak in a dignified blank verse, which is unrhymed verse based on the iambic pentameter line. An iambic pentameter is a line of five feet (a foot is two syllables), in which the emphasis falls on the first syllable of the foot.
For example, see the opening lines of the play:
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering-out a young man's revenue.
Note how the heavy punctuation in line 3 slows the line down, in keeping with the sense. Shakespeare often makes changes in the basic iambic rhythm of the line too, to gain a variety in effect and to match the sense. For example, the second foot of line 4 ("moon wanes") is a spondee, in which both syllables are stressed, rather than an iamb.
Unlike Theseus and Hippolyta, The four lovers often, although not always, speak in rhyming couplets, as when Hermia speaks in Act 1 scene 1, lines 202-07:
Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;
Lysander and myself will fly this place.
Before the time I did Lysander see,
Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me.
O then what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
In the wood, under pressure of the emotions generated by the confusing situation, the lovers drop their rhyming couplets and speak in blank verse.
The artisans, appropriately enough, speak in prose, except when they try their hand at the rhymed verse of "Pyramus and Thisbe."
Puck and the fairies, and occasionally Oberon too, often use shorter rhyming couplets. Typically these are trochaic tetrameters. The tetrameter is a shorter line than the pentameter, consisting of four feet rather than five. In a trochaic foot, unlike the iambic, the stress falls on the first syllable rather than on the second. For example, see Oberon's speech, Act 2, scene 2, lines 26-32, and Puck's speech later in the same scene (lines 65-82), from which these lines are taken:
Through the forest have I gone;
But Athenian found I none
On whose eyes I might approve
This flower's force in stirring love.
Like Theseus and Hippolyta, Oberon and Titania often, although not always, speak in blank verse, although their speech is more highly poetic than that of Theseus or Hippolyta. It is full of imagery. If one had to pick out the finest, most delicately expressive poetry in the play, for example, one might choose the speeches of the fairy couple on their first appearance, in Act 2 scene 1. Interestingly, when Titania is in love with Bottom, she speaks mainly, although not exclusively, in rhymed verse rather than blank verse.
SOURCE: http://www.novelguide.com/amidsummernightdream/metaphoranalysis.html
French I/II
This week we will continue to work with grammatical elements in Chapter 5
This is the link to 73 terms that will constitute your vocabulary for this chapter: http://quizlet.com/2398404/bien-dit-level-2-chapter-5-flash-cards/
Your test will be on Friday so you must practice these on quizlet every night.
We will also be constructing paragraphs in French that describe our daily routine.
I look forward to seeing you all this week.
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