Finals Week

Due Wednesday:

Vocabulary Quiz

Individual Analysis + Any Group Work

Typed List of Decisions + Analysis

Due Thursday:

Video

Peer Participation Score

Breakfast food (optional)

Wednesday, June 8

Congratulations on turning in your last paper! You all did a great job this semester.

So, while there is no homework tonight, I would like you to start forming a group for your final commentary. These groups are between 3 and 5 people. It would also be ideal if you can decide on a key passage from the play that will be focus of your analysis and trailer. This key passage should be between 20 and 40 lines and be replete with style elements and character, conflict, theme developments.

Wednesday, June 1

Tonight you are creating an outline that reflects thoughtful organization rather than in-depth analysis. Before you start your outline you should try reworking your thesis until you are confident that it reflects what you are going to convey in your essay and covers what the author is conveying, how he conveys this, and why he is conveying this (so what). Also to be done before you start your essay is an evaluation of the different ways of organizing a comparison essay and a decision about what will work best for your topic. When you finally start writing your outline it should be written in with a formal outline structure (I. A. 1. a. i...) and include 1. thesis statement 2. topic sentence 3. quotes 4. transition sentence 5. topic sentence 6. quotes 7. transitions, etc. For your conclusion, I want you to write what you want to accomplish in it instead of actually writing it out.

Friday, May 27

1. Finish Blood Wedding
2. Turn in journals to turnitin.com
3. Prepare for quiz on context and content of plays
4. Topic proposal (10 questions can be handwritten or typed but formal proposal itself must be typed)

Thursday, May 26

Blood Wedding Act 2
Journal #7 (last journal of unit)
Discussion Questions

Wednesday, May 25

Read Act One of Blood Wedding.

Write a one page analytical paragraph (or two paragraphs) on a connection between the first page of Wild Duck and the first page of Blood Wedding. Bring this to class tomorrow.

Bring discussion questions to class.

and something that does actually connect to class...a flamenco dance based on the play Blood Wedding

Tuesday, May 24

Finish Wild Duck.

Comment on three journal entires of your peers (does not have to be the most recent but it should be from the tragedy unit). Copy and past those comments on to your blog.

Bring Blood Wedding to class.

Bring discussion questions and observation to class. You will be in smaller groups for tomorrow's discussion so it is a good chance to get all of your points if you are prepared.