Happy 2013!!! Welcome back!
I'm sorry to be missing you all today, but trust that you will all be helpful, productive, and generally your wonderful selves while I am out. Please read the directions for your class carefully.
CP10: Please PRINT OUT and TURN IN your original sonnets; these will be collected by my sub. You will be starting to look at "Macbeth" today, beginning with some vocabulary. Here is a list of twenty words with definitions: "Macbeth" Vocab
You will each be assigned TWO words (this will mean that some people have the same word, but that is okay as long as someone has each word at least once!) and try to come up with a creative way to help that word stick in everyone's mind. That might mean creating an illustration, a short skit, a quick rap, a clever rhyme, or...? Be creative, and be prepared to share your two words at the beginning of next class.
Next, please head to "No Fear Shakespeare" to get started with "Macbeth"! This link is also on the CP10 section of the blog, but you should bookmark it now because that site is your take-home book for this unit. In a group of no more than three, please read Act 1, Scene 1 through Act 1, Scene 3. Please attempt to read the original Shakespearean text BEFORE referring to the "translation," but do read both if you feel it will be helpful. With the time you have left, you should read thoroughly and write at least five discussion questions that we can use next class. These may be questions you don't know the answer to, or questions that you are more sure of but think are important to our shared understanding.
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H10: Please double- and triple-check that your "utopia" stories are shared with me in your GDoc/GDrive folder; if they are not in your folder, I will not see them!!!
Today you will work through an especially challenging chapter in Brave New World. You may choose to approach this in one of two ways: either, you can read the chapter, then go to the H10 section of the blog for "translations" of the four intertwining stories that make up the chapter, OR you may read the "translations" first and then go to the Huxley text. There is a set of questions linked in the H10 section for this chapter as well, broken down by story. Please have these ready to share and discuss next class. You may work by yourself or in a small group of no more than four: this chapter has lots of dialogue, and would make for a great read-aloud! Your only homework is to be done with Chapter 3, questions and all, and ready to move on next class.
If you have time, please review the vocab list we began to explore before the break. We will be revisiting these words on Friday, and will have a test next week.
