Showing posts with label week 13. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week 13. Show all posts

Special Spittle...and Organs

Best line from the AP Vocabulary Quizzes:

"At the company, the most reverence was given to the expectorate."

Best definition:

"prostrate: an organ in the body"

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