HAPPY HOLLOWEEN

GET OUT YOUR PARAGRAPH ON ACT 2 AND BE READY TO WATCH A PLAY DONE BY STUDENTS
DISCUSS IN YOUR GROUPS ABOUT YOUR PARAGRAPH ON ACT 2 OF TAMING OF THE SHREW AND THE CHAPTER YOU WERE ASSIGNED FROM SHAKESPEARE ALIVE! EITHER ABOUT THE WOMEN OR ABOUT THE FAMILY
IN YOUR GROUPS FOR YOUR PLAY ALSO YOU RECEIVED YOUR CHEAT SHEET BACK GRADED AND GET HELP IN GROUP IF NEEDED BUT OTHER WISE
GET A SEAT AND WATCH THE FIRST ACT PERFORM

DAVID K.

Background on Shrew

We received a new sheet of paper telling us a story of either old English families or Women in the Renaissance. You have to take notes and right a paragraph comparing it to Act 1, which you also have to read over the weekend due on Monday. There is also a literary sheet where you test yourself and will correct on Monday with your cheat sheets. Then for the rest of the hour we got to work on all of that and get the most we could get done. Blake

Rehearsal time

Today we had to take a white piece of paper for the bell work and put who you we wanted to sit by and don’t want to sit by and any other special needs. We also signed up for scribe for 2nd quarter. After that Mrs. Gilbert collected them and we went over on how to edit are screenplays so they make more sense (get notes from a classmate). Also Mrs. Gilbert showed a scene from Kiss Me Kate to see how levels and how we need props to show what’s going on in are play. Then for the rest of the hour we got in are groups and practiced our presentations for the play

Blake
(sp.)

Starting to Tame the Shrew!

Today is the last day of the semester. Today in class we received the Taming of the Shrew and received papers that dealt with the play and the characters and also how to write an Actor's Notebook. We also went over how to perform and discuss the characters to decide on which of them that we liked. After that we went over the roles that we choose for the play. Then everyone left and that is it.

Homework is to begin filling out the Actor's Notebook.

Gavin

Exam Part 2

Today we took down our 13th Olympian posters and did the 2nd part of our final exam. We also put up our posters for our story/poem.

Homework: From a magazine, newspaper or internet, get a picture of people and lable the use of negative space, levels and leading center.

--Jack

Reflections

Hey everyone quess what we did today. Sorry u cant u werent there but to tell you we turned in are papers today and we had to write a reflection for it (see the handout Mrs. Gilbert gave out). Also we got the requirements for the style poster which is due Tuesday. Then for the rest of the class we finished the movie.

Blake

Ramping up for Shrew

Today we just did bell work, which was practicing putting commas in the right places in complex and compound sentences. After that we watched the movie “Ten Things I Hate About You.” The homework for tonight is to turn in our final draft of the comparison/contrast, along with the other work.

--Martha

Complex sentences

Bell work- each of us in our group made sentences to make a really short story.

Made 3 compound sentences from the story that we wrote

Did 3 sentences each for pattern 3 and 4 (aka complex sentences) from the punctuation pattern sheet. Switched with group member and edited their paper for proper punctuation.


Proofread rough draft # 3 for compare and contrast paper.

Final draft due Friday!

You can turn in your books anytime.

--Cristi

Final Exam Part 1.

Today in class we first talked at our tables about who we thought the tragic hero was until 1:20
40 minitues to complete you Final Exam Part 1 Essay. In your essay the Prince Of Egypt , Atigone and another Myth had be included in it.
20 minutes quiet time which was for:
redo mini essays on Atigone
Revise C/C paper

Tomorrow bring Third Rough Draft

David K

In class today we finished watching "The Prince of Egypt" that we started watching on Friday. Try to take notes, you will need them for tomorrow's Final-Part 1.
Ronda

Working on literary terms cheatsheet

We defined words from anthology books in our cheatsheet and for some of them we needed to find examples from Antigone. Look for the list of words posted in class.

We worked on introductions make sure to have: an attention getting intro with a thesis (point).

Quiz over the Antigone story tomorrow and R.D. #1 due

Erin

End of Antigone, Creon and Haimon!

Today (10-11-05) we just read and took notes on scenes 4-Exodos on the Antigone story pages 330-340. Also we talk about our compare and contrast paper. We talked about having a message/point in your paper. Another thing we talked about was the body paragraphs. The first sentence deals with the main connecting points. The middle sentences descriptively shares info for both stories and make connections between the two stories. And the last sentence deals with making connections between the two stories. Homework: Write 3 body paragraphs that are due tomorrow (10-12-05).

JJ

The plot thickens: Antigone

Bellwork:
Turn in you c/c chart
Make a list of key quotes made by Antigone and Ismene in the Prologue of Antigone

After our bellwork, we discussed how to properly read our lines in Antigone. You need to open your mouth and speak clearly and loudly. Make sure you are sitting up straight with both feet on the floor or stand. Next, we read Scenes 1-3 in Antigone. We had a worksheet of questions to discuss on Scenes 1 and 2. We wrote down key quotes of Creon and the Sentry in Scene 1.

Homework: Write down key quotes from the characters in Scenes 2 and 3.

E.C.: Read Scene 4 and write a paragraph summary for 10-11-05.

Maggie

Beginning Antigone and C/C paper

We went around reading everyone’s final drafts, and putting down comments about we thought about it. Turn in the final.
We voted between Julius Caesar and Taming of the Shrew (Shrew won)
We received another packet of poems (save for next week)

David and Ronda played out the first scene of the play of Antigone.
We all were assigned a part to the play to read over the weekend.

AND, we were assigned to do the pre-work chart for a compare/ contrast paper. Instructions for the paper can be found online at www.cjgilbert.net under Mythology under C/C paper.

--Written by Ashley, typed by Blake

C/C Bible/Other myths

Today we started with a review worksheet on compound sentences; we corrected it as practice and we will have a quiz over it in the near future.

Then we spent time in groups discussing the Bible stories we read on Tuesday. Then we got in smaller groups (3-4) to make a compare/contrast (c/c) chart between one Bible myth and another myth. Each person had to translate one part of the chart into a body paragraph for a "group" essay. These were taped to construction paper and turned in.

Finally, we signed out Platinum edition anthologies and everyone has to read pages 308-309 for tomorrow to prepare for our next story: Antigone.

REMINDER: Final draft of Olympian is due tomorrow. Don't forget to organize your papers according to the handout you received in class today.

Compound Sentences

Today we did a quick review of parts-of-speech via some more mad libs. Then we got Punctuation Pattern sheets and discussed the differences between simple and compound sentences, and between compound subjects/predicates and compound sentences. Then we wrote 9 sentences on lined paper: 1 simple with a compound subject, 1 simple with a compound predicate, 7 compound sentences using each of the main coordination conjunctions once (and, or, for, so, yet, but). We turned them in for credit.

The we took notes on how to do a better job of proofreading our Olympian projects. Everyone is supposed to proofread their 3rd rough draft at least 3 times before writing their final for Friday.

Then we shared some allusions.

Schoolhouse Rock & Bible-as-Literature

Today we made up stories about random subjects where we had to fill in the blanks with the grammatically correct word. We had to get in group of 2 and then make the story (Mad Libs) then get together with another group and have them fill in our story with random words in the blanks.

We also started to talk about famous Bible stories and some of were assigned as leaders for reading these stories. After that we made posters in different groups about certain stories that we were assigned to. Then we all took notes on the other stories that we learned about from the other groups.


Homework was to bring 3 high level questions about Bible stories and other stories we read and bring in 3rd rough draft on Olympian story.

--Rod

Poetry & Discussion

-Write letter to someone about his or her poem and tell him or her 3-5 things that you liked.
-Revise Olympian story to include dialogue, description, and figurative language.
-Write high level 3 questions connecting Greek/Norse/World Mythology.
-Discuss The questions in groups and write down good points.
-3rd rough draft due Wednesday for Olympian story.-Everything about Olympian due Friday.

--Josh P.