Day 7 (9.10.10 B Day)

Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of literary terms

and allusions; students will explicate and analyze Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities

• Summative Test: Literary Terms "Critical 50"
• Presentations: Allusions (Zeus, Hera, and Aphrodite)
• Essay: Begin assignment
• Read: Hamlet (Students will take notes.)

Homework

1. DUE on Tuesday (9.14.10 B Day): Bring three quotes (one must be from your summer reading novel and two from novels of literary merit you have read in the past) to prepare for the first formal writing assignment.
2. DUE on Tuesday (9.14.10 B Day): Allusions (next 3)
3. DUE on Tuesday (9.14.10 B Day): Sentence Model Notes 1 & 2
4. DUE on Thursday (9.16.10 B Day): Read - Types of Poetry (Handout from DiYanni, pages 775-778) and Elements of Poetry (On Blackboard from DiYanni, pages 779-786).

Work Collected in Class

1. None.

Day 7 (9.9.10 A Day)

Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of literary terms

and allusions; students will explicate and analyze Elizabethan drama.

Class Activities

• Summative Test: Literary Terms "Critical 50" (In "Tests" tab on Blackboard)
• Presentations: Allusions (Zeus, Hera, and Aphrodite)
• Essay: Begin assignment
• Read: Hamlet (Students will take notes.)

Homework

1. DUE on Monday (9.13.10 A Day): Bring three quotes (one must be from your summer reading novel and two from novels of literary merit you have read in the past) to prepare for the first formal writing assignment.
2. DUE on Monday (9.13.10 A Day): Allusions (next 3)
3. DUE on Monday (9.13.10 A Day): Sentence Model 1 & 2 Notes (Bring to class)
4. DUE on Wednesday (9.15.10 A Day): Read - Types of Poetry (Handout from DiYanni, pages 775-778) and Elements of Poetry (On Blackboard from DiYanni, pages 779-786).

Work Collected in Class

1. None.

Day 6 (9.8.10 B Day)

Objective: Students will read Hamlet and verbally explicate

Elizabethan English; students will analyze dramatic elements of plot.

Class Activities

• 
  
  Check your grades.
• Warm-up: Look up the word "authentic". Students will copy definition into their notes for Hamlet.
• 
  
  Journal Entry:

How is it possible "to be" and "act" authentically in a world in which truth is distorted or disguised?

• 
  
  Read: Hamlet (Students will take notes while reading.)

Homework

1. DUE on Friday (9.10.10): Study for the Literary Terms "Critical 50" SUMMATIVE Test!
2. DUE on Friday (9.10.10): First 3 Allusion Presentations

Work Collected in Class

1.  None.

Day 6 (9.7.10 A Day)

Objective: Students will read Hamlet and verbally explicate

Elizabethan English; students will analyze dramatic elements of plot.

Class Activities

• Check your grades.
• Set up binder. Your dividers should have the following titles:
•      Writing, Poetry, Drama, Literature, Vocabulary, Journals (order is   optional)
• Warm-up: Dictionary -Look up the word "authentic". Students will copy definition into their notes for Hamlet.
• Journal Entry:

How is it possible "to be" and "act" authentically in a world in which truth is distorted or disguised?

• Read: Hamlet (Students will take notes while reading.)

Homework

1. DUE on Thursday (9.9.10): Study for the Literary Terms "Critical 50" SUMMATIVE Test!
2. DUE on Thursday (9.9.10): First 3 Allusion Presentations (Zeus, Hera, and Aphrodite)

Work Collected in Class

1. None.