Showing posts with label Shakespeare: Lear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare: Lear. Show all posts

Lear Quiz by the Numbers

As a student still needs to take this quiz, I couldn't hand them back, but here is a breakdown for you (the score is on focus).

Most students made it into the 20-22 range. 

If you were far below that, you'll want to study your first M/C tests more carefully and review the answers. 

We had a perfect score and a near perfect score with Jinsol and Nikki; congratulations! 

Also, your senior class is 3% ahead of last year's M.C. test takers. 

Enjoy,

Mr. S

King Lear






Author: William Shakespeare

Title: The Tragedy of King Lear (underlined when handwritten)

Opening question(s):
  • Have you ever been deeply misunderstood or misjudged by a parent (or both)?  What happened?  How did you respond?  Was there eventual resolution?  Do you need to forgive now?  
    • This is the opening context for King Lear, and it is tragic.

Thursday, 11/10: Quizzing

* Pray

* Vocabulary Quiz 51-70

* Lear M.C.: 30 Questions

HW: Outside Reading, CWP

Wednesday, 11/9: Lear Essay

AP Lear Essay

Choose one from the three below. Be sure to respond to the prompt and not merely summarize the plot. Be sure to take a position and defend it using specific examples.

1. Trace the theme of sight and insight, blindness and vision in King Lear. Consider how this theme relates to the idea of reality and appearance.

2. Trace the theme of "nothing" in King Lear.

3. Evaluate the following statement from Lear. Take a position and defend it: "I am a man/ more sinned against than sinning" (III.ii).

Single space.
Write in pen.
MLA Heading

Tuesday, 11/8

* Pray

* Grammar
Word Choice > Exact Words > Section 18e and f.
Do ex. 18-5 all.

* Check vocab.

* Per. 1 skip to 1:29, etc.
Per. 3 1:38
Per. 6 skip to 1:29, etc.

HW: Finish Reading Lear

Monday, 11/7: Lear

* Pray

* Check J19

* Video

1: 54:03
3: 1:14
6: ?

HW: Vocabulary 61-70; Read Act IV

Thursday 11/3: Lear

*Pray

*Review Act I and II q's

Lear Video
per. 1  ?
per. 3 47:19
per. 6 35:24

* CWP if extra time remains (consider the poetry contest link)

HW: J19 Choose ten questions for Act III

Wednesday 11/2: Blake and Lear

* Pray

Notes: Volleyball tomorrow night! Play this week and next week at 7 pm (Thu-Sat, also a 2pm show on Sat).

Stephanie Early, please see your adviser at the end of 7th.

* Community Service Opportunity: Childcare every other Wed. night at Aptos Christian Fellowship from 7-9 pm. See me if you're interested.

* Blake essays

* Video or Work on J18, your choice.

HW: J18: Choose ten questions to answer from Act II

Tuesday, 11/1: Grammar, Bedford 18d, Idiom

* Pray: Happy All Saint's Day!

Grammar: Bedford 18d, idiom
1) Read 18d
2) Do ex. 18-4 letters and numbers

* Check J13

HW: Read Act II

Card Quiz For "The Knight's Tale" and your outside reading

1. List the the title and author.

2. List two major themes for each card.

3. List two literary devices for each text with examples for each device from the texts (it doesn't not have be a quoted example; an explanation is fine).

4. Give two quotations for each text.

Cordelia's Farewell by Edwin Austin Abbey (1898)

Monday, 10/31: Lear

* Pray

* Video.
Per 1 from 21 min.
Per 3 from 19:15
Per 6 begin.

* Continue J17 (finish Act I)

HW: Finish J17; begin reading Act II

Thursday, 10/27: Block Day, Week 11


* Pray

* AP M.C. (A.P. M.C. 2009 11-21 for Week 11 Block Day PDF document ) We will do this section together (it will not count as a quiz grade).
- Notice the traps set in the questions (surrealism, etc.)

* Lear Video

* Lear Reading Guide (see Focus; King Lear Reading Questions PDF document ): J17 Act I Reading Questions (as far as you have watched in the video per. 1 to the letter; per. 3; per. 6 ). 

* 5 min. to review

* Card Quiz

HW: J17

Wednesday, 10/26: AP Writing

* Pray

* Grammar Corrected

* Blake AP Writing Rubrics

* Note on our Block Day: We will do some class work and take the card quiz later in the period.  We may have visitors for 10-15 min. during class. 

HW: Study Cards, make sure your vocabulary is done

Tuesday, 10/25: Grammar, Vocab

* Pray

* Review the ways to read King Lear (see below). 

* Grammar: Read 18a,b, and c.  Do ex. 18-3 letters and numbers.

* Check J16.

* Vocabulary 51-60 (see list in labels)

HW: Vocabulary 51-60 (any time this week); finish reading Act I if you have not

Monday, 10/24: Lear

* Pray

* Check J15

* Introduce The Tragedy of King Lear


Best electronic edition for you:
*In iBooks, Look up "King Lear." Download the free version that his a picture of a man with a headache on a white background.  This one seems like it has the best layout (if you view it as a portrait). 
* The other free editions look fine but aren't as nicely set up for the iPad scree; they are from the Gutenberg project.


Others:
If it's good enough for MIT, perhaps it's good enough for me.
Open Source Shakespeare


* Work on J16: Last class-based college drafting assignment.

HW: J16, Read Act I