Marriage Customs and Laws

Today in class you will be research marriage customs and laws during Elizabethan times. You will be receiving a primary source document with which you should do the following:

• for each passage, look up unknown words
• write a short summary of each passage in the margins or on the back of the page.

Once you have looked up unknown words and written the summary, please make a copy of this document and answer the questions. This should be completed by the end of class and in your quarter 4 folder. 

HW: Is it Love or Lust?  Complete cue paragraph- due next Thursday!

Act 1- Sub Day

Continue Reading Act 1 together. For homework, complete the Act 1 Summary in your quarter 4 folder.
Parts:

Romeo-Carter, Skyler

Montague-Colby

Lady Montague-Kaia

Benvolio-tom

Abram-James

Balthasar-Eero

Juliet-Caroline, Taylor R

Capulet-James

Lady Capulet-Emma C

Nurse-Grace

Tybalt-Callie

Petruchio-Sarah

Sampson-Emma G

Gregory-Kelsie

Peter-Taylor D

Escalus-Jessie

Paris-Jessie

Mercutio-Andrew

Friar Lawrence-Eero

Friar John-Kaia

Apothecary-Kelsie

Chorus-Sydney

Romeo and Juliet Intro and Prologue

1. Finish poetry reading
2. R&J Anticipation
3. Literary Terms/presentations

Using pic collage or key note, please do the following for your term

• Define (definition provided)
• Find an example online (preferably from R&J!)
• Create your own example

4. Translate Prologue

HW: Prologue translation if not finished

Quiz over literary terms on Friday

Poetry prompt and revisions

1. Portfolios
2. Character prompt
3. Rubric for poetry slam
4. Poem peer edits/revise poems

Using Sound to Create Meaning

In a taped discussion with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren entitled "Conversations on the Craft of Poetry," (1959) Frost made an interesting statement: "One of the things that I notice with myself is that I can't make certain word sounds go together, sometimes they won't 'say.' This has got something to do with the way one vowel runs into another, the way one syllable runs into another. And then I never know -- I don't like to reason about that too much. I don't understand it, but I've changed lines because there was something about them that my ear refused. And I suppose it has something to do with vowels and consonants.... I don't want any science of it." 

1. Peer edit poem
2. Analyze Frost Poem- make note of sound devices you notice and how they create mood in the poem
3. Balancing Sound and Meaning in Poetry

Portfolio (including reflection!) and sound poem due next class

Poetry coffee house on Thursday

Metaphors and Relationships

1. Continue language and emotion poems- discuss
2. Partner Activity: Playing with Similes
3. Metaphors and Relationships
4. Write a poem!

HW: Write a poem based off either the concrete/abstract language brainstorming or the metaphors and relationships brainstorming. You may choose to combine the two- the idea is to write a poem that uses concrete language to reflect an abstract emotion or a relationship.

Portfolio Intro and Using Concrete Language to Express Emotion

1. Introduce freshman portfolio- due May 12th
2. Create cite
3. Share favorite poems
4. Language and Emotion

Terms for today:

• abstract-  refer to ideas or concepts; they have no physical referents. ex: love, justice, truth, success, freedom
• concrete- refer to objects or events that are available to the senses. spoon, table, velvet eye patch, nose ring, sinus mask, green, hot, walking.
• denotation- literal meaning of a word
• connotation- something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described. ex: connotations for “home” might be: warmth, comfort, relaxation, etc.
• figurative language- language not meant to be taken literally (ex: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification)
• tone- attitude toward subject matter and toward the audience implied in a literary work
• mood- emotional quality or character of a poem

HW: Concrete language brainstorming. You will be writing a poem that expresses an emotion using concrete language and images. Do not name the emotion you are writing about in the poem itself- it should be clear through the language you choose what the poem is about.