Romeo and Juliet 2.4

Do Now: How old do you think someone should be to get married? How young is too young?  What do you think of Lord Capulet’s answer to Paris’s request? How would you feel if he were your father?

Objectives:

• use appropriate reading strategies to understand Shakespeare

1. Do now
2. Answer Reading Guide questions for 1.2

3. Read 1.3 & 1.4

4.  Queen Mab Handout
5. Film versions

6. Summarizer

HW: Answer Reading Guide questions for 1.3 and 1.4

Romeo and Juliet 2.3

Do Now: Have you ever felt obligated to fight/argue with someone out of loyalty to a friend or family member?  How did it feel, or how do you imagine it would feel?

Objectives:

• use appropriate reading strategies to understand Shakespeare's language

Agenda:

1. do now

2. ORB (ORANGE ONLY)

3. Complete reading guide questions for the Prologue and Act 1.1
4. Watch #1st film version- opening scene

5. Socrative: What is your opinion of Romeo?

6. Read 1.2- acting!

HW: Answer reading guide questions for 1.2

Romeo and Juliet 2.2

Do Now: A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.  With a partner, write a short skit playing on hair and hare; or here and heir; or bear, beer, and bare.

Objectives:

• use appropriate reading strategies to understand Shakespeare
• define and identify use of puns

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. ORB (YELLOW ONLY)

3. Read Scene I (fight scene)- acting!

4. Watch the film of the fight scene

HW: Answer Reading Guide questions for Act 1.1

Romeo and Juliet 2.1

Do now: Import the doc "Romeo and Juliet Drama Terms" into your Romeo and Juliet subject in notability

Objectives:

• define essential drama terms
• become comfortable with Shakespeare language
• Analyze how the prologue provides exposition and foreshadowing

Essential questions:

What decisions do Romeo and Juliet make that lead to their fate?  Which parts of their fate are out of their control?

How do the themes (fate and chance, passion and reason, individual and group, etc.) of the play relate to our own lives?

Agenda:

1. do now

2. define drama terms
3. Review sonnets

4. Prologue activity

4. summarizer

HW: reflection: how comfortable were you reading the prologue?  Was it difficult to understand?  Why/why not?

Romeo and Juliet 1.3 ORANGE

Do now: Have you ever acted before?  When/what role did you have?

Objectives:

• research Shakespeare's life
• use technology to engage in pre-reading activities
• take notes on the English Renaissance

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Sonnets- import into student folder
3. Week 13 vocab

4. Space Race groups- Shakespeare's life!

5. Introduction to Renaissance: open the powerpoint, fill out the note taking sheet

6. summarizer

HW: Finish note taking

Romeo and Juliet 1.4

Do now: What is a play that you've seen? Did you like it? Why/why not.

Objectives:

• become comfortable using Shakespeare’s language
• understand how acting requires a connection between verbal and physical actions
• preview the plot of R&J

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Review games activities

3. Little theatre games: word/ball toss, milling and seething, hurling insults

4. Summarizer

HW: Enjoy break! ORB selection needed for the triple the week we come back

Romeo and Juliet 1.2

Do now: Type the assertion statement for the first sonnet into socrative

Objectives:

• identify imagery, personification, and meaning in Shakespeare's sonnets

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Second sonnet- paraphrase, identify literary devices, assertion statement

3. Third sonnet- paraphrase, identify literary devices, assertion statement

4. Summarizer

HW: Finish assertion statements and annotations for sonnets

Romeo and Juliet 1.3 YELLOW

Do now: Have you ever acted before?  When/what role did you have?

Objectives:

• research Shakespeare's life
• use technology to engage in pre-reading activities
• take notes on the English Renaissance

Agenda:

1. do now

2. Sonnets- import into student folder 

3. Space Race groups- Shakespeare's life!

4. Introduction to Renaissance: open the powerpoint, fill out the note taking sheet

5. summarizer

HW: Finish note taking

ORB Presentations

DO NOW: Open the "ORB Presentation Note Sheet"

Agenda:
1. Do now
2. Week 13 Vocab
3. Presentations
4. Sonnet

HW: finish annotating and create an assertion statement

Romeo and Juliet 1.1

Do now: What do you know about Romeo and Juliet?

Objectives:

• define sonnet, iambic pentameter, imagery, conceit, scansion, couplets
• read and annotate sonnets for figurative devices

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Submit essay

3.Define poetry terms (Handouts->Romeo and Juliet->poetry/literary devices)

4. Review Shakespearean sonnet form

5. Read/Annotate sonnet for figurative devices ((Handouts->Romeo and Juliet->sonnets)

6. Summarizer

HW: Finish annotation 18 and write an assertion statement

Catcher Essay Day 8

Do now: Open the 9th grade writing rubric (in iBooks)

Objectives:

• peer edit for grammar/mechanics/style
• understand what passive voice is
• identify passive voice in peer writing
• revise own essay to correct for passive voice

Agenda:

1. Do now

2. Jazzy titles!

3. Partners: Peer edit each other's essay for:

• typos
• apostrophe errors
• "shows"
• "this quote_____________"

4. What is passive voice? Handout

5. Passive voice video
6. highlight all "to be" verbs in draft. Once completed, review each example to identify passive voice

7. Revise paper

HW: Final draft due MONDAY

ORB Work day

Do now: take out your ORB and open your iPad to Google Slides

Objectives:

Agenda:
1. do now
2. ORB work day- check thesis statements!
3. Summarizer

HW: ORB project due WEDNESDAY

Catcher Essay Day 7

DO NOW:  Please take out your body paragraph drafts and a copy of the evaluation checklist.

LEARNING TARGET: I will understand  evaluate and revise body paragraph

LOOK FORS: I will know that I have hit the learning target when:

• I can give an example

AGENDA:

1. DO NOW
2. Body Paragraph evaluation checklist
3. Revise Body Paragraphs 2 and 3
4. Review introductions and conclusions-- handout
5. Begin drafting introduction and conclusion
6. Summarizer: Rate your body paragraph draft on a scale of 0-5

(0 = not very good, 5 = amazing!)

HW:  All 5 paragraphs due THURSDAY. ORB presentations WEDNESDAY.

Catcher Essay Day 6

DO NOW:  Please take out your body paragraph draft and a copy of the evaluation checklist.

LEARNING TARGET: I will understand  evaluate and revise body paragraph

LOOK FORS: I will know that I have hit the learning target when:

• I can give an example

AGENDA:

1. DO NOW
2. Body Paragraph evaluation checklist
3. Revise Outline and Body Paragraph 2
4. Begin Body Paragraph 3
5. Summarizer: Rate your body paragraph draft on a scale of 0-5

(0 = not very good, 5 = amazing!)

HW:  Draft body paragraph 3

Catcher Essay Day 5

DO NOW:  Open up your body paragraph #1

LEARNING TARGET: I will understand  evaluate and revise body paragraph

LOOK FORS: I will know that I have hit the learning target when:

• I can give an example

AGENDA:

1. DO NOW
2. Body Paragraph evaluation checklists
3. Revise Outline and Body Paragraph 1
4. Begin Body Paragraph 2
5. Summarizer: Rate your body paragraph draft on a scale of 0-5

(0 = not very good, 5 = amazing!)

HW:  Draft body paragraph 2