Shakespeare Self Study Feb 4-7

Dear 9th Lit scholar
You will have independent work for the next four days. You will continue your study of select scenes, quotes, articles and poems associated with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. You can go to this week’s blog to find all the an electronic version of this document with all of the hyperlinks.
Tuesday
Complete the following tasks:

• Grab a laptop and turn it on!
• Warm Up – Rewrite the selected quote using emojis in your composition book (composition books are in the crates in the front of the room. Return the books when you are done I am still grading!) Go to https://emojipedia.org/ if you need inspiration.  I encourage you to add color and embellish your work.

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathèd enemy.

• Go to www.schoology.com and complete the assignment entitled Balcony Scene (make sure you submit your work on the website). If you still need the access code go to the homepage of the class website at www.doctorwhipple.com
• Closing – Independent Reading and Double Journal Entries (8 entries are due by Feb 11)

Wednesday

• Common Lit
  • Go to www.commonlit.org and click the sign in button at the top right hand corner
  • Login with Clever
  • Login with Active Directory
  • If the system asks you to login it is your Cobb County email or if you are logging in from home [email protected] and the same password you use to login to the lapops)
  • There are four articles:
    • Can Television be Considered Literature and Taught in English Class?
    • Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
    • Adolescence and the Teenage Crush
    • Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison (Listen to the NPR broadcast of this article https://www.npr.org/2013/04/22/178411754/teaching-shakespeare-in-a-maximum-security-prison)

Thursday

• Warm Up  - Read and review the handout on Character Types (Come up with examples from literature or a movie to represent EACH Type)
• On Monday we read Act 1, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet (The Capulet Party Scene) Using the template provided or creating your own design a Masquerade Mask for one of the attendees of the Capulet party. Characters to consider: Romeo, Juliet, Lord Capulet, Mercutio, Benvolio, and Nurse.
• Your mask should be thoughtfully designed to represent your character including the following:
  • AT LEAST two to three symbols representing your chosen character
  • Color or use an appropriate color of construction paper
  • Use the Color Symbolism Chart to assist you
  • WRITE a detailed paragraph explaining your mask, character types and textual evidence (a direct quote from the play) that justifies why your creation represents your character.

Friday

• Warm Up – Double Journal Entry (remember 8 entries are due by Feb 11th)
• Work Session –
  • Complete any remaining Common Lit articles (please see Wednesday’s lesson for more details)
• Closing – In your composition book create a character stick figure sketch of Romeo and Juliet, draw a stick figure AND include the following for BOTH:
  • What the character says…
  • What the character does…
  • What the character thinks…
  • What the character feels…
  • How others respond to this character