Friday, April 12th

Goals: 

• I can use acting techniques to make connections to the play and comprehend Act 2.1

Announcements:  

• For Monday, please read and annotate Act. 2.2 & 2.3.  
• Retaking language quiz.  Two options: 
  • ​Write a paragraph using and labeling all the grammar constructions to make up 4 points on the quiz. 
  • Retake the whole quiz before, after school, at lunch.  
• ​Skyline Book Club Tuesday, April 16th
  • ​EL--American Street
  • LL--A Very Large Expanse of Sea

1. Women during Elizabethan times 

2. Multiple Choice Practice 

3. Focusing in on lines 182--233

• What is each characters' super objective (their overarching goal).  
  • What is their objective in this scene? Or do they have multiple objectives.  

Role play

• ​Sitting 
• On your feet in modern language (what objectives were you showing us?)
• Original language with Emilia on your feet. Try to show through your body language the objective of your character. 

​4. Act 2

• 2.1.234--307 4 people do a reading.  1 Roderigo and 3 Iagos .
  • ​How does Iago convince R. that Cassio is in love with Desdemona? 
• ​2.1.308--34
  • ​Two readers, alternating sentences 
  • What does Iago mean when he says, "Now I do love her too?" 
  • Do you believe Iago when he says, "I fear Cassio with my nightcap too." 
  • Compare Iago's soliloquy here with the one at the end of 1.3.  Has his motive changed? 
  • Coleridge referred to Iago's "motiveless malignity."  Do you agree that his malignity is fundamentally without motive? 

5. In Writer's Notebook:  The Q3 on the AP exam asks about the "overall meaning of the work."  So far, what reoccurring themes or ideas are you seeing here?  Do you have any ideas about the what Shakespeare is saying about that ideas?