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Monday, April 1st

3/22/2019

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Goals:

I can use acting techniques to make connections to the play and comprehend the first scene.

Announcements:

If you were absent on the Friday before Spring Break, please get the AP Multiple Choice Practice. See agenda from Friday for instructions.
Homework for tomorrow: Read Act 1 Scene 1 and answer questions in your notebook and write notes.
- Mark up the text with questions, comprehension notes, connections, etc.
- Answer 2 of the 3 questions below in your notebook:
- 1. Why do Iago, Roderigo and Brabantino hate the man they are discussing?
  2. What reasons does Iago give for continuing to follow his master?
  3. What kind of person do you expect the man they discuss to be? How do you imagine him? Count the number of times the word "Moor" was used in 1.1. Can you draw any conclusions?

1. Writer's Notebook--My Jump Shot--Clint Smith

Read Around
Discuss
- Notice
- Wonder
- Connect

2. Begin Othello

Role Play Scenes
Act 1.1.74--160
- Read one--each read a line
- Read two--parts--annotate script
  - jot down questions/circle unfamiliar words
  - Who are Roderigo and Iago? What kind of people are they? What does each seem to want from the other? Who's in control?
  - What has just happened?
  - Who is Brabantio?
  - What sort of person is the Moor? The daughter?
  - What sort of language does Iago use to tell Brabantio of his daughter's elopement? What sort of fears/prejudices is Iago playing on?
- Reading three--break up parts.
  - How do the different reading affect your impression of the characters?
- Reading four--act out the scene.

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Friday, March 22nd

3/21/2019

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Goals:

To do a close reading and analysis to understand a text.

Announcements:

Satire assignment (Mastery) due tonight at midnight
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Next Skyline book club meeting Tuesday, April 2nd Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm
Sign up for the correct Google Classroom
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1. AP Multiple Choice Practice

Quick reflection--
- Was prose easier than poetry?
- What did you notice about yourself as a test-taker?
- Annotate the questions based on the type. Is there a pattern to the type of questions you are missing?
  - Turn both tests and the reflections in please!

2. Work on Satire Projects

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Thursday, March 21st

3/20/2019

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Goals:

To do a close reading and analysis to understand a text.

Announcements:

Satire assignment (Mastery) due on Friday at midnight
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Next Skyline book club meeting Tuesday, April 2nd Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm
Sign up for the correct Google Classroom
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- 5th ad7xmqw

1. Finish Act 3

2. Write your response to your question about Act 3 (with textual evidence).

3. Work on Satire Mastery Project.

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Wednesday, March 20th

3/19/2019

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Goals:

To do a close reading and analysis to understand a text.

Announcements:

Satire assignment (Mastery) due on Friday at midnight
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Next Skyline book club meeting Tuesday, April 2nd Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm
Sign up for the correct Google Classroom
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- 5th ad7xmqw

1. Select a question from Act 3. Think about it as we read the play today.

2. Finish Act 2/Read Act 3

3. Write your response to your question about Act 3 (with textual evidence) and discuss as a class.

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Tuesday, March 19th

3/15/2019

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Goals:

To do a close reading and analysis to understand a text.

Announcements:

Satire assignment (Mastery) due on Friday at midnight
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Tuesday, March 19th: Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm
Sign up for the correct Google Classroom
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- 5th ad7xmqw

1. Please turn in questions from yesterday

Your paragraph
The original question

2. Act One Review

Scene 1
Scene 2

3. How voice and gestures affect meaning.

4. Read Act Two

5. With your table, select on section 5-10 lines and do a close reading.

What is being satirized?
What satirical technique is Wilde using?
How does this connect to the overall meaning of the text?

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Monday, March 18th

3/15/2019

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Goals:

To do a close reading and analysis to understand a text.

Announcements:

Satire assignment (Mastery) due on Friday at midnight
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Tuesday, March 19th: Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm

1. Two Truths and a Lie & Tea

2. Act 1 Analysis

Musical Chairs analysis
- Find a free spot.
- Answer the question
  - Add on to a previous comment
  - Push back on a previous comment
  - Add examples and analysis from the text.
  - Put your initials next to each comment you make.
  - Pick up ONE of the questions and write a complete answer with textual evidence for tomorrow.

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Friday, March 15th

3/13/2019

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Goals:

To understand the elements of satire and apply terms to analysis of 3 different types of text.

Announcements:

February Portfolio page due on Friday!
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Tuesday, March 19th: Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm

1. Incongruity Game

Everyone stands in a circle. One person begins by doing an everyday activity, such as combing her hair. The person to her right asks, “What are you doing?” She then continues to comb her hair but says she is doing something completely different, such as giving her cat a bath. the person who asks must now spontaneously begin to pantomime giving a cat a bath.. Thenext person asks, “What are you doing?” The game continues around the circle until everyone has had an opportunity to pantomime an activity.
- What was the most humorous moments?
- Was it the ridiculousness of hearing and seeing two completely incongruous things?
- Was it the honest and serious commitment of the students to the action?
- Were situations that were more exaggerated or extravagant than real-life, everyday activities more comical?

2. Read Act 1

3. Act 1 Question--
What is being targeted? What satire techniques are being used here? How do the techniques contribute to meaning?

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Thursday, March 14th

3/12/2019

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Goals:

To understand the elements of satire and apply terms to analysis of 3 different types of text.

Announcements:

February Portfolio page due on Friday!
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Wednesday, March 13: Literati Book Club (all ages), 7-8 pm
Thursday, March 14: Identity Collage Art Workshop, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8pm
Tuesday, March 19th: Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm

1. AP Multiple Choice Practice

Tips
Try one for a baseline and reflect.
- How did you do with the time limit? Did this feel like enough time?
- Hold on to this--we will analyze specific questions we got wrong next week.

2. 50 Things

3. Video

4. Victorian Manners Quiz

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Tuesday, March 12th

3/11/2019

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Goals:

To understand the elements of satire and apply terms to analysis of 3 different types of text.

Announcements:

February Portfolio page due on Friday!
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Wednesday, March 13: Literati Book Club (all ages), 7-8 pm
Thursday, March 14: Identity Collage Art Workshop, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8pm
Tuesday, March 19th: Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm

1. Elements of Satire

5th--from situational irony
Apply the elements of Satire to the video at the end. Write a paragraph about which elements you see and share.

2. Drawings

What is being satirized? What type of satire? What is one ELEMENT of satire that you see in the image?

3. Article "Why I Want a Wife"--Judy Brady or "Lowest Animal" Mark Twain.

What is being satirized?
What type of satire?
What elements of satire do you see in the text? Explain with examples.

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Monday, March 11th

3/10/2019

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Goals:

Student can use a prompt to spur own reflective writing.
Student will understand the elements of satire.

Announcements:

February Portfolio page due on Friday!
Please return my books
Citizen Book Club (Participation=free pass on a process assignment OR an extra week for a Mastery assignment).
Wednesday, March 13: Literati Book Club (all ages), 7-8 pm
Thursday, March 14: Identity Collage Art Workshop, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8pm
Tuesday, March 19th: Skyline Book Club at lunch!
Thursday, March 21: C itizenship Dinners, The Neutral Zone & UM-Ann Arbor, 6-8 pm
Thursday, March 28: Culminating Event & Art Show, downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 6-8 pm

1. Writing Prompt--What If Money Were No Object?

2. Tri 3 Plan

Late passes
Field Trip
Goals and plan

3. Elements of Satire

Please turn in paragraphs about the last satire.

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