Shakespeare

Absent?  Lost a journal entry?   Find what you are missing here:  RESPONSE JOURNAL.

 

HANDOUT with assignment from week of Feb 2-6th.  Explanation of due dates.    Modernizing Act V.  After this, you will be finished with Shakespeare for the year.

Due Friday, Jan 23: 

Macbeth  Act III Scenes 4-6

Your task is to create a comic strip with actual quotes from the text OR a 2-3 song soundtrack for this part of the play.  We are working individually.  CHOOSE ONE!

·         Comic:  Show that you understand what the most important events are and that you have put thought into choosing how to depict the action of the scenes for your comic strip.  Use ACTUAL quotes from text.  Extra credit for high quality project.

·        Soundtrack: Show that you understand that mood, events, and characterizations transpiring in this portion of the play when selecting songs for the mini soundtrack.  Provide lyrics AND a paragraph explaining why you feel it relates; SUPPORT FROM TEXT.  Extra credit for bringing in a burned CD.

 

The instructions for the ongoing assignments described BELOW are on this Shakespeare Unit Handout.

On the handout shown above, you will find a thorough description of the reading journal assignment REPLACEMENT task: “Macbeth - Facebook Newsfeed Edition” which also includes writing what students believe the Facebook profile of a significant character might look like today. *Students will not actually need access to Facebook at any time.

On the same handout as the above assignment, you will find details regarding the sonnet project.  For the next (about) 2 weeks, students will be presenting their sonnet projects.  This includes selecting a Shakespearean sonnet, analyzing it, and then creating his or her own sonnet following the same theme as the Shakespearean sonnet.  They will present it in poster form to the class.  

  *Literature Resource Center - a database with expert critiques and analysis.

Here are the Hamlet Film Questions you must answer by Monday, Jan. 12 2009.  Here is the Hamlet ”Facebook Newsfeed Edition” of your on-going assignment for Macbeth.