If you wish to read G. K. Chesterton on A Midsummer Night's Dream, you may do so here: Chesterton. This was extra reading on your Midsummer drama blog page. You do not need to read this, and there are no questions on your final from it...but some of you need a helpful distraction right now, so there it is.
Tea Party and Review
* Open
* Satire
* Review for the final
HW: Review
- Party Setup
- Remaining Binders
* Satire
* Review for the final
HW: Review
Block Day
* Open
* Satire
* Review for the final
HW: 7.5 questions; review for the final
- Binder Check
- Work on B.G.T. #4-5 (due by the end of the period)
* Satire
* Review for the final
HW: 7.5 questions; review for the final
Wednesday, 12/11/13
* Open
* Midsummer
* Satire
HW: Contest; Binder; 7.4 questions
- Work on B.G.T. #3
* Midsummer
* Satire
HW: Contest; Binder; 7.4 questions
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| Artist: Stella Maria Baer |
The Plan to the Exam
Final Exam Focus: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Monday, 12/16
- Part 1: Final Exam Essay on A Midsummer Night's Dream
- AP Examples
- Part 2: Multiple Choice Exam
- Short Stories
- Roughly twenty questions per category
- Notes and Grammar
- Terms and Vocabulary
- Reading (stories, Midsummer, no mythology except where it applies to our later reading)
- You will write out your memorization on the back of your scantron.
Monday, 12/16
- Review
- Per. 1 Final
- Review and Tea Party
- Per. 2-3 Final
- Per. 4-5 Final
- Per. 6-7 Final
CWP Satire: Period 3
* See instructions below
Your order will be as follows:
Your order will be as follows:
| Adamson,Domenica | |||
| Angel, Emily | |||
| Buie, Stuart | |||
| De Los Santos, Ryan | |||
| Golino, Isabella | |||
| Lew, Zephone | |||
| Lorentz, Savannah | |||
| McCartney, Kyla | |||
| Moran, Patrick | |||
| Naegle, Brooke | |||
| Pineda, Reann | |||
| Saldate, Macie | |||
| Schmidt, Jonathan | |||
| Schmitzer, Katherine | |||
| Shepard, Bobby John | |||
| Spohn, Ryan | |||
| Tao, Grace | |||
| Vetesy, William (Will) | |||
| Wayne, Alexander | |||
| Weatherford, John | |||
| Wilson, Courtney |
CWP Satire: Period 1
Assignment:
Employing a metaphor, simile, personification, apostrophe, or other trope, extend this dialogue on love in the comments below.
When you have written your response, tell the next student. We will post alphabetically. Please leave your name OR initials at the end of your comment. Your comment must be at least two sentences in length. Please read the comments that come before your post before you post. You have until the end of block day to complete this assignment.
Your opening comes from Lysander to Hermia in Act I. Let's change their names to Lester (teenage boy) and Hester (teenage girl).
Here is your opening line; please format such as it is below. Lily, take it from here!
Lester: How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
Employing a metaphor, simile, personification, apostrophe, or other trope, extend this dialogue on love in the comments below.
When you have written your response, tell the next student. We will post alphabetically. Please leave your name OR initials at the end of your comment. Your comment must be at least two sentences in length. Please read the comments that come before your post before you post. You have until the end of block day to complete this assignment.
Your opening comes from Lysander to Hermia in Act I. Let's change their names to Lester (teenage boy) and Hester (teenage girl).
Here is your opening line; please format such as it is below. Lily, take it from here!
Lester: How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
| Bouch, Lilyana |
| Delenikos, Dillon |
| Keathley, Avery |
| Kirchick, Bronson |
| Landis, Hannah |
| Matar, Hana |
| McCook, Emily |
| McDavid Restrepo, Antonio |
| Mina, Rylodain |
| Noonan, Parker |
| Odegaard, Chelsea |
| Orata, Keith Liam |
| Pirtle, Emma |
| Plascencia, Andres |
| Richardson, Evan |
| Soria, Marianne |
| Thatcher, Madeleine |
| Trengove, Frances |
| Tunink, Alyna |
| Ward, Nicole |
| Watson, Felix |
Tuesday, 12/10/13: Mid-Freezing Fingers
* Open
* Midsummer
HW: Finish reading act III; do at least half of your 7.3 questions; (Schwager only: rewrites due tomorrow)
- Define satire in your notes (read this definition; copy down the first sentence of it into your notes).
- Work on the Composition paragraph of your Beautiful, Good, and True outside reading assignment.
- Recite memorization: See your binder
- Pray
* Midsummer
HW: Finish reading act III; do at least half of your 7.3 questions; (Schwager only: rewrites due tomorrow)
Monday, 12/9/13: B.G.T. and Midsummer
* Open
HW: Finish act III questions (Journal 7.3); begin reading act IV if you already did act III questions
- Work on the Context and Tradition paragraph of your Beautiful, Good, and True outside reading assignment.
- Recite memorization: See your binder
- Pray
- Daily B.G.T.
- Contest evidence (screenshot printed and placed in the essay section of your binder; checked with your binder)
- Journal 7 continues (also checked with your binder)
- Binder check planned for block day (but could be any day between that day and your final day). You need to have your binder present and prepared for EVERY class day between block day and your final exam day.
- We will review the final exam breakdown on or by Wednesday.
HW: Finish act III questions (Journal 7.3); begin reading act IV if you already did act III questions
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"Titania Sleeps" by Frank Cadogan Cowper |
Block Day
* Open
* Finish (Reno to begin?) Rubric Study
* The Beautiful, Good and True questions are now fair game to attack once you finish your novel.
* Enter a Contest
HW: Finish your outside reading; enter a contest or submit work to a newspaper by the end of next week.
- Errors in bold lines only:
- What hempen home-spuns have we schwagering here
So near the cradle of the fairy queen
What a play toward! I'll be an auditor - An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.
* Finish (Reno to begin?) Rubric Study
- (Schwager) Work on your essay rewrite (due next Tuesday)
- Act III
- Journal 7 continues with 10 responses from act III (Yes, you can call this J7.3 to signify Journal 7, Act III).
- The CWP is changing
* The Beautiful, Good and True questions are now fair game to attack once you finish your novel.
* Enter a Contest
HW: Finish your outside reading; enter a contest or submit work to a newspaper by the end of next week.
Wednesday, 12/4/13: Gloria, In Excelsis Deo!
* Open
* Schwager: journal check
HW: Outside Reading
- Grammar
- Shepards why this jubilee
- Why your joyous strains prolong
- What the gladsome tidings be
- Which inspire your heavenly song
* Schwager: journal check
HW: Outside Reading
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