HELLO and WELCOME to ENGLISH CLASS!

I’m really excited to have you!

Here are a few of the skills we will be honing (yes, honing) in class this year:

·         Building English knowledge through reading, speaking, and writing

·         Evaluating informational (nonfiction) and narrative (fiction) texts

·         Identifying assumptions and premises of an author or work

·         Effectively using evidence to support claims verbally and in writing

·         Recognizing that purpose and audience change how ideas are (or should be) communicated

·         Utilizing technology and digital media to convey Information

·         Developing and demonstrating intellectual curiosity

·         Employing critical media literacy in everyday life

·         Viewing identity as multifaceted and often conflicting (not static)

·         Understanding other perspectives and cultures

My name is Maeve Peterson, the English teacher formerly known as Ms. Fischer. 
A few things about me:

·         I’m a La Crosse native, but live in Viroqua.

·         I broke my arm trying to bungee jump off my back steps when I was five.

·         In high school, I was the lead singer of a mediocre musical group called The Vinyl Fischer Band.

·         I hiked 2,176 miles from Springer Mountain Georgia to Katahdin Mountain Maine in 2008.  It took six months.

·         I played street ping-pong this summer in Florence Italy with some Egyptian exchange students.  I like to think I held my own.

·         I am down to earth and honest—if you ask me for my opinion, I will tell you.

·         I truly believe English is fun, interesting, and pertinent to life.  I hope you’ll agree with me by the end of the year (if not before)!

Things You Do for Class

·         Come prepared!  Bring a notebook, writing utensil, and a folder every day.  You are responsible for keeping track of your own journal entries, handouts, assignments for writing portfolios, etc.

·         Show up!  In accordance with the handbook, you are not allowed to make up or turn in work that was missed during an unexcused absence.  After ten absent days, no work will be accepted for credit.

·         Be on time!  If the bell rings before you are actually THROUGH the doorway, go to the office to get a pass.

·         Participate!  I want to get to know you, so please contribute!  You don’t always have to raise your hand.

o   CHECK your language!  Using derogatory language is not tolerated.  THINK about what you are saying before you say it.

·         Pay attention!  Stay awake with your head off your desk. 

·         I will take your phone if I see it and/ or catch you using it. 

o   First Offense: I take it for the rest of the day.  You can pick it up from me after school.

o   Second Offense: I take it to the office; your parent has to come in to get it.

o   Third Offense: You are no longer allowed to have your phone on school premises (use it during passing time, etc.)

·         Turn in work on time!  This means at the beginning of the class period (you should NOT be frantically writing before the bell rings).  Please place it in the appropriate wooden slot at the front of the room.  I do not accept late work.  If there are extenuating circumstances, talk to me before the assignment is due.

·         Try!  If you read and engage with the material for this class, you will learn more and have more fun.  I have a keen eye for spotting slackers—don’t think you’re fooling me if you turn in subpar work.

·         Demonstrate independence!  This means forming your own ideas while understanding the point of view of others.  If I ask you to write a paper, don’t simple regurgitate what I said in class.  I will not tolerate plagiarism.  If you have a legitimate reason for needing more time to complete a paper or project, talk to me instead of copying someone else’s ideas.

·         Respect me and your classmates!  This includes following school rules, cleaning up your own messes, and asking before using classroom materials.  If you’re unsure if you should be doing something, you probably shouldn’t.  But you can always ask me.

Things I Do for Class

·         Provide clear directions and expectations!  Please ask me if something does not make sense.  I will never try to intentionally trick you with a prompt or test question.  If the wording or vocabulary of question is unclear, ask what it means instead of getting the question wrong (vocabulary tests are an exception, of course).

·         Grade things in a timely manner and provide written feedback!  I promise to read your assignments.  I may not return things as quickly as you would like, but I will return them.

·         Try to keep things interesting!  I will take your input into consideration but challenge you at the same time.  The classroom is not a democracy— I may ask you to do or read a few things you don’t like, but bear with me.

·         Respect you and your classmates!  I like you already.  Let’s have a great year.

Anticipatory Set (30 min): As students walk into the room, instruct them to turn their desks toward the person sitting in front of them, so that they are in groups of two facing one another. After this has been done, pass around a piece of blank white paper to the people sitting in the back. Ask the people in the front to come to the front of the room and choose a magazine picture from the pile I have provided. When they have all returned to their seats, Explain that the people with the paper will be the “drawers.” Make sure the artists in this class (focal students) are in this position! The other people are responsible for describing the picture they chose to the other person without showing it to them or gesturing in any way. The drawer may not ask any questions of the describer. After allowing someone to describe for about 15 min, have the describers rotate to the right, so that a new person is describing the same picture to the drawer. Do this once more before you call “time’s up.”

Direct Instruction/Lead-in to direct instruction: Ask students what frustrated them about this activity. Did it bother them that they could not ask questions? Did they notice that as the describers switched, they described different things to them? Perhaps one person focused on “the big picture” while the other person only focused on one specific element of the picture. Tie all of their comments into a brief Powerpoint presentation on “Point of View.” This should include: first, second, third, objective, limited, and omniscient (intrusive/unintrusive) point of view as well as the idea of the unreliable narrator.

NAME (drawer, describer): _____________________________

Drawer: Did it bother you that you could not ask questions?  Did people leave out information that you thought was crucial?

Did you notice that as the describers switched, they described different things? Perhaps one person focused on “the big picture” while the other person only focused on one specific element of the picture.  Where some people better than others at describing the picture?

Overall, was this activity easy or difficult?

Describer: What was difficult for you?  Were some pictures easier to describe than others?  Were things ever too complicated (or awkward) to describe so you left them out completely?

Overall, was this activity easy or difficult?

Both: Define the term UNRELIABLE NARRATOR (you can look the works up separately in the dictionary).  How does this relate to the activity we just completed?

Define these narrative viewpoints as well.  You may know some of them… use a dictionary to help you speculate if you do not (we’ll talk about it more tomorrow).
First Person POV

Second Person POV

Third Person POV

Objective POV

 Limited POV

 Omniscient (intrusive/unintrusive) POV

Prereading Crucible Stuff

The Crucible

Pre-reading Anticipation Guide

Name:____________________________

These statements relate to some common themes that occur in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible.  Because many of the statements are multifaceted and debatable, the agree/disagree line is supposed to provide a sliding scale; you don’t have to completely agree or disagree, but can place yourself somewhere in the middle.

1.)    Secrets are private information between people that should never be told.
Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

2.)    It is better to keep silent than to lie.
Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

3.)    In most cases, the court will find the truth concerning someone’s guilt or innocence.

Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

4.)    Most people are courageous.
Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

5.)    Even bad people have some good in them.
Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

6.)    White lies, or small lies, don’t really matter.  It is the big lies that are the most sinful.
Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

7.)    People who admit they desire someone else’s husband or wife should be punished.

Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

 

8.)    It’s okay to cheat on your spouse if you are not in love.

Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

9.)                        It’s a sin to let someone else take the blame for something you have done.

Agree --------------------------------------------------------------------Disagree

**Use the back of this sheet to explain two of your answers in complete sentences with specific examples for support (personal, from the news, from another class, from another work of literature, etc.).

Name: _______________________
After looking through the anticipation guides, I noticed that many of you wrote that a small white lie is just as bad as a big lie; we should strive to be honest in all situations.  Because lying is an important theme in The Crucible, I thought we should examine this further.

We live in a society that condones lying in many situations.  According to “The Queen of Courtesy” Marjabell Young Stewart, author of The New Etiquette: Real Manners for Real People in Real Situations:

“Socially, lies are sometimes regrettably necessary.  Each of us must decide for himself or herself how much is acceptable and under what circumstances.

            “White lies, as small social lies are dubbed, are told to spare the feelings of another.  You have told a white lie when a friend asks you how you like her new—and as far as you can tell, perfectly unattractive—dress, and you respond be telling her she looks great in it.  A more honest white lie is to tell her that the color or fit or style is flattering without commenting on the dress overall.  At the other end of the scale is plain and often painful truth: “I think that dress looks awful on you.  Is it too late to take it back and get something else?”  The value of such honesty should be weighed on two levels: the degree to which it will hurt a friend and one’s conscious, and possibly even subconscious, motives that will surely hurt another person.”

Consider the age-old question (very similar to the one above): “Do these pants make my butt look big?”  More often than not, if someone is asking the answer is simply “yes.”  But isn’t your relationship to that person just as much, if not more, important to the answer than how the pants fit (or how large their butt actually is)?  Honestly consider (and write) your response to the question for the following people (assume the pants are quite unattractive):

a.)        A close friend (you’ve known each other since kindergarten)

b.)        Some one that you don’t know that well but are romantically interested in

c.)        Someone you just met, and for some reason is comfortable asking you this kind of personal question (your brother’s girlfriend’s sister’s friend)

d.)        Someone you consider cocky and not that pleasant

Why does your answer change (assuming it does)?  If the goal is complete honesty, shouldn’t it stay the same?  Even if some answers are different, can they all be equally honest?  Do the words “honest” and “appropriate” go hand-in-hand?

Some Feminist Responses to the accountant in Heart of Darkness

The African men were described as nothing manly.  When we think of a man we think of someone who is muscular, strong, a leader.  Men are promiscuous and they want lots of women. They're studs. They're persuasive.  The men described in this story were a pathetic version of a man.  The Africans were described as black shapes crouched or leaning against trees.  They were also called black shadows of disease, a destruction-- that alone pretty much sums it up.  Marlow also said that they were morbid shapes, phantoms, and dusty n*******.
The accountant that comes is the "perfect" example of a man.  he has a high starched collar, which cuffs, parted hair.  He came and took what he wanted-- enslaved the women to do his work. 




I didn't really understand the majority of this literature.  The only sentences/phrases I found to be feminist/gender based were "They were nothing earthly now-- nothing but block shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom."  Which in a racist sense the African people are known to be weak, disease, useless almost, dark skinned people compared to the dapper, strong accountant.  Men, well white men, are stereotypically known for their muscle, facial hair, job/bank account, and promiscuous ways; the Africans don't have any of that and their there is no mercy only torture/labor.
The women in all this were doing all mainly housework: "I've been teaching one of the native women about the station.  It was difficult.  She had to distaste for the work."  Women were treated as if they knew nothing and that their only worth was labor, sex, etc.
The main story is African men were castrated and sickly and women were objects.  The white people were terrorists and showed no mercy for the weak, brittle people they created.




In this story, they portray the native men as demasculinized beings.  All the while, the accountant was show to be about as manly as you can get.
The black people in the story are shown to be like animals.  "...shapes crouched, lay, say between trees..." "... one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink."  this makes them seem more like animals than men.  Also, the blacks couldn't seem to keep their women, who were going to "work" for the accountant as housekeepers, maids, cooks, and I am sure they provided other services.
"The man seemed young-- almost a boy-- but you know with them it's hard to tell."  This shows that the narrator feels there is no difference between the young males and older males.  So, the Africans have to puberty.  Bye bye manhood!
The white accountant on the other hand is totally a man.  He has the African women, wears fancy cleans clothes, and has his hair styled.  he is also in charge of many other people, who are totally under his thumb.



So this accountant keeps up a flawless appearance at the expense of a woman.  Meanwhile, a whole honey bunch of men are outside, dying of starvation, sickness, and exhaustion.  There he is, the perfect specimen of society and health, looking positively sexy, surrounded by the very manifestation of oppression and poor health.
He would rather look like a boss instead of help these people that probably need a meal more than he needs shoe polish.  This effectively emasculates them.  As discussed in class, they are socially castrated.
Can you call yourself a man when some white bean-counter comes to your town, takes your food, teals your women to be enslaved in an industrial-era laundry mat?
Talk about humiliation!  Not on a manly level, but on a much more basic human level.  He has completely dehumanized them.  We set ourselves apart from animals because we are "civilized."  If you take away our civilization we are just clever monkeys.



Of the many different themes in "Heart of Darkness," I find the feminist view the hardest to discuss, but I will anyway.  The natives in this story are always vague-- somewhat incomprehensible-- because of their lack of definition.  You would think that in a land naturally inhabited by Africans they would play am more instrumental role in the story, but instead they are kind of more of a notion, castrated of their manhood by the lack of definition.  All of the Eauropean characters are explored in depth by the author, and there is not a single positive description of a native.  Also, the natives never talk, which is not characteristic of a man, boisterous, it's more like that of an snimal, silent, lower than men.
The natives are sickly and weak, not worthy of being men by denotative standards of a masculine society, whereas the big, strong, well-groomed accountant, not always traditionally thought of as manly, is the most manly figure in this feminine land of beasts and non-manly burden.  I think also the fact that they all obey Kurtz should be considered.  Kurtz is not that strongest figure, and his name literally translates to "short," yet all the natives follow him like some sort of god-like figure.  Some would say like a good woman, would obey a man's every whim and fancy.

Pickleweasel: The Lingerie Football League

What is the main point of the article?
Do you see any issues with the Lingerie Football Leage (even if you like it)?  What are they?
Do you think the players have a realistic view of what they are doing?  Why or why not?
How do these articles fit the concept of sportwriting we talked about at the beginning of the unit?

New underwear league under debate

By Simon Evans

MIAMI | Fri Sep 4, 2009 12:17pm EDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - It does not require a great deal of imagination to work out the marketing strategy of the Lingerie Football League, which opened its debut season on Friday.

The underwear-clad female players are hoping, however -- probably in vain -- to be taken seriously.

The LFL, born out of the commercial success of the "Lingerie Bowl', a half-time show of women in scanty outfits broadcast during the half-time break in the NFL's Super Bowl, has ten teams competing in seven-a-side full-contact American football, with players dressed in sports bras and the tiniest of shorts.

The branding is blatant -- the teams have names such as the San Diego Seduction, Dallas Desire and Los Angeles Temptation -- and their websites and promotional material are more akin to those for NFL cheerleaders than genuine professional sports.

The league's founder Mitch Mortaza has described the venture as "Disneyland for football fans" but those taking part say they are serious about the sport and about winning.

"I think it is eye candy for one but it is also football and it is real," says Kaley Tuning, wide-receiver with the Miami Caliente who open the season on Friday at the Chicago Bliss.

"There were try outs for the team and if you couldn't play you didn't make the cut," she said.

"I've seen people say it is a joke and it is degrading and it makes me mad. We are real athletes, for them to not take us seriously, well I say wait till you see us play," she added.

GUCCI HANDBAG

Watching the Caliente practice, at a sports facility in the suburbs of Miami under the charge of former college football quarterback Bob Hewko, the strange clash of glamour girls and sport is quickly evident.

The training is taken seriously and the players work hard and look intense in the huddle but a Gucci handbag takes its place alongside the helmets on the sideline and one player, who like many is also a model, worries that she has picked up scratches ahead of photo shoot in a few days' time.

Hewko concedes that looks played a major part in the selection of the squad but, like everyone involved in the venture, says fans will see real football.

"I was surprised at the level -- the level of talent. They can run, they can catch and we have a quarterback that can throw the football 60 yards," he said.

It is unlikely to be the throwing prowess of the players that brings in the punters to the indoor arenas, however.

"For the first game, it is going to be people wanting to have a good time, wanting to see beautiful women playing football and getting down and dirty," said Miami's defensive captain Taira Turley, who is also a professional make-up artist.

Thousands of women play organized games of American Football across the United States in amateur teams wearing conventional uniforms, and receiving little major commercial interest.

Miami Fury has been a member of the Independent Women's Football League for all of its ten-year existence and the team's co-owner Gayla Harrington said she was initially uneasy about the formation of the Lingerie team largely due to the attire.

'PERNICIOUS OBJECTIFICATION'

However, with the Caliente recruiting two of her players, she said the team had become more of a sports project than she initially imagined.

"It is more athletic, a little more serious than I originally thought," she said, adding that she would support the team in their home games but was unsure whether the LFL would help her to generate backing for her own team.

"It could be a positive or a negative. It could be that people still don't take (women's football) seriously but then again it might help," she said.

Feminist writer Courtney Martin has no doubts over whether the LFL will help women.

"This is objectification at its most pernicious -- give women an opportunity to participate in a sport that they haven't had the chance to do for pay and publicly previously, but only let them do it if they are stereotypically pretty and willing to do it in their underwear," she wrote on website feministing.com.

So why not simply play the game in conventional dress?

"But then half the people wouldn't watch," said Tuning.

"Sure, some people aren't going to watch because they think it is degrading or they don't want to watch it with their kids.

"But then there is going to be a group of people who watch it because of (the attire) and they might say: 'Wow -- this is real, athletic and they know what they are doing."

(Editing by Clare Fallon)

Skimpy outfits will end someday, lingerie football player says
CBC News
Posted: Mar 7, 2012 2:33 PM CST
Last Updated: Mar 7, 2012 3:14 PM CSTRead 34 comments34

Some people are criticizing plans to bring "lingerie" football to Saskatoon and Regina, but a player says giving women who love football a chance to play is a good thing.

Liz Gorman, who plays with the Tampa Breeze of the women's Lingerie Football League, also thinks more traditional football attire will happen someday.

In Saskatchewan, there's been a buzz in recent weeks after the league announced two teams for the province. Some critics say making women dress in skimpy outfits is demeaning.

Gorman says she'd rather wear a more conventional uniform, but understands it's a business consideration.

"I mean, I don't like it," she said. "You'd rather wear full clothing. I have a bunch of scrapes on me."

Gorman believes the league will eventually evolve to the point that the more revealing outfits will go.

"You look back at basketball, you used to have to wear skirts," she said. "Obviously it's changed, they have the WNBA now. So if you look back, women's sports has constantly evolved and I think that this sports league is going to end up changing the uniform."

The first Lingerie Football League games in Saskatchewan are scheduled for the fall.

Inside Look At Full-Contact, Competitive Lingerie Football
Gallery: Meet the Valkyrie
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Ready or not Lingerie Football has come to the Twin Cities. The Minnesota Valkyrie are brand new to the Lingerie Football League and quickly making an impact.

While they on Friday night to the L.A. Temptation, a couple of former standout track stars that are making an impact on and off the field for this new team.

It’s being called the fastest growing sports league in the nation — 7-on-7 full-contact football.

It’s being played by women who wear sports bras, shorts and glass-front helmets. The Minnesota Valkyrie are the newest franchise in this 11-team Lingerie Football League.

They are led by former Vikings lineman Everett Lindsey.

“They are true athletes and that’s how I treat them and that’s how I look at them,” Lindsey said.

He said 85 percent of the Valkyrie players are college graduates. All were athletes but his biggest challenge is coaching them up

“It’s teaching them the game of football and just all the intricacies of the game,” he said.

They’ve learned quickly beating Green Bay in their season opener. The head coach said he’s proud of his athletes and the work they do in the community; especially the Govrick twins.

“Tiger and Panther. They’re two little fire plugs. They bring a lot of energy to this team,” Lindsey said.

Their real names are Elizabeth and Teresa Govrick. They’re former Minnesota state track champions from Washburn High School. Back in 2004, they were part of the state champion 4×100 and 4×200 relay teams.

They went on to run track and play soccer at South Carolina State University, where they both graduated. Now they mentor athletes at the high school where it all began where it also gives them a chance to learn more about their passion.

“I watched them practice on this field and gave them a little pointers,” said Washburn High School football player Jason Williams.

They say playing lingerie football fills a void in their lives.

“We were Division I athletes in college so it’s like to come back and yea we can play pick-up soccer, we can run with our kids and stuff, but it’s not that competitiveness that we’re not getting it,” said Elizabeth. “So I think playing in this competitive, tough sport that gives us that edge back and that’s why we do it.”

But what about the uniform, or lack thereof? Elizabeth and Teresa say it’s not an issue.

“We both ran track and I was wearing, you know, stuff if not close to almost smaller than what I’m wearing out on the football field,” said Elizabeth. “You take beach volleyball, you take volleyball, you take other sports where it’s pretty much the same thing. Its just the name Lingerie Football League.”

These athletes say if you take away the lingerie, what you have left is good old American football.

“You never think of women playing football. Even now were like ‘Oh my gosh that is not real football.’ But it is. You have to really watch it,” said Teresa. “Like my sister said take out the lingerie part and we’re hitting and doing everything that guys do in this sport “

If you think this is powder puff football, think again. During their first game, the star running back tore her ACL. She’s out for the entire season.

These women want you to look beyond the uniforms and see they love this game and play it well. The Minnesota Valkyrie players work full-time jobs and still practice 30 to 35 hours a week. They do not get paid for being on the team.

Their next home game is the home finale at Target Center on Saturday Nov. 19 when they play Chicago

How to legitimize Lingerie Football League

Doug Murray/Icon SMI

If the Lingerie Football League wants to be taken seriously, it should take us up on the advice below.

As far as stains on America’s cultural fabric go, the Lingerie Football League might be among the most ambitious. Representatives of the depressing, sport-based spectacle -- in which bug-eyed bros wantonly mouth-breathe at clashing gaggles of panty-clad vixens -- have announced that the next season will be postponed until April 2013 to align with a warm-weather schedule.

The 12-team league will now have plenty of time to think up novel strategies for growing its brand. Perhaps the LFL will consider actually paying its players, who not only are denied compensation for their efforts but are also required to front a participation fee. Nah, probably not.

But with hopes of helping the league inch toward something resembling legitimacy, might I recommend the following suggestions:

• Recruit big girls. I’m talking like Vince-Wilfork-in-a-wig big. I know many fans come for the curves, but I think it would be equally thrilling to see quarterbacks literally getting flattened.
• Just as the NFL is facing an endless succession of concussion lawsuits, so the LFL will soon experience the fury of jerky-skinned former players not sufficiently protected from turf burn. Let the girls wear wetsuits or something.
• Every good sports team needs a mascot, but names like the Seattle Mist, the Tampa Breeze and the Baltimore Charm are tough to depict with a costume. So in the interest of merchandising, why not go with the Seattle Hogmonsters, the Tampa Tilapia and the Baltimore Butter Churners?
• For sports franchises to be respected, they gotta hand out free slices of pizza when a certain point threshold is reached. Just ask the Toronto Raptors.
• The league needs a commissioner who will look out for the women’s best interests. Might I suggest Hillary Clinton? Totally seems like her kind of thing.

Good morning and thanks for coming!  All classes receive participation points for being on task, paying attention, and acting responsibly.  Please let me know if there is anyone who needs to lose all or some of their points for the day! 

First Hour: I would like the students to complete a worksheet about quotation marks.  When I graded their “Of Mice and Men” essays yesterday, many of them were struggling with direct quotations.
There is a reference sheet as well as the worksheet that explains when/where capitalization is necessary, as well as where quotation marks belong.  Please review this WITH them before they work (they have a tendency to skip the directions part and just guess if they have the chance).
When they finish this, they should continue working on the Icarus: 2010 article.  Most are about halfway through and still have a set of questions to answer.

Icarus 2010 Questions

1.) Describe Potter's Life (childhood --> present)

2.) List seven adjectives that describe Potter

3.) What does he risk?  What has he given up?  What does he gain/why does he do it?

Second Hour:  Students began a unit on memoir yesterday.  They completed a sheet about an excerpt “Me Talk Pretty One Day.”  Please have them keep it for the time being; I want to talk to them about what they think the thesis statement is.
I would like students to spend the hour brainstorming ideas for their memoirs.  I listed some prompts at the bottom of this document.  They should explore at least three questions; I would like them to just START writing (I think some people will sit and think too long).  Please remind them that anything they write can be changed or deleted, but just starting writing will help them think.

Third Hour: There are three computers reserved for them in the library so they can work on their autobiography project.

Fifth Hour:  Students are working to find pieces for their Farrago speech in the library.  When possible, try to guide them toward quality literature—some people have been finding questionable internet poetry.  If they have all their sources, they should begin reading and interpreting them (writing poems into paragraph form may help).  Each student should have a directions sheet as a reference to guide them.

Seventh Hour: Opening Journal Prompt
1.) How would you feel if someone you liked suddenly stopped liking you?  Jot down some of the feelings and reactions you might have toward someone whom you felt had stopped liking you.
2.) What is happening in the plot of AMSND that would cause me to ask this question?

Please show the students this clip from the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona (they put on A Midsummer Night’s Dream last year): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiSzmvykL0
It spans the whole play (it’s a little bit of a spoiler, but may help them better understand the plot).

Then have students define each of the following vocabulary words and use it in a sentence (it might be easiest to write them on the chalkboard—it’s okay if the actor project gets erased).

dissemble

flout

progeny

promontory

wanton

They should then write a one page summary of what happens in Act 2 Scene 1 in pairs.  If they would like to use No Fear Shakespeare on the Smartboard, they can.  I have not tried it with this class yet.  It lists the Shakespearean language on the left, and modern English on the right.
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/msnd/page_32.html

Eight Hour:  Please send one of the students to pick up the mobile lab (it’s probably in the library).  They should be working on their autobiography assignment.  A first draft is due May 1^st, and many of them have barely started.

·         Think of a place you visit every day (or very often). Describe it in as much detail as possible. What makes this place important?

·         Of all the possessions you own, choose one you would bequeath to a child or grandchild and write about why.

·         If you could make a national holiday, what day would it be and what would it be about?

·         Take an inventory of your purse and/or wallet and/or backpack. What do the items inside say about you?

·         Write about your family heritage (or one member of your family who has been especially influential). How does it (do they) affect who you are?

·         What is one of your bad habits? Describe it. Why is it bad? Why do you do it?

·         If you had to sum up your life in ten words or less, which words would you choose and why?

·         In what ways have you deviated from traditions or beliefs you were brought up with? How has this changed your life?

·         Recall a time that you felt really out of place.  Where were you?  Why?  How did the situation resolve itself?

·         Choose a random picture (from an album, a magazine, the newspaper, online) and write about any memories it may trigger.

·         Choose an older family photo, and write about what you remember was happening at that time.