Provide the missing details from these factoids about Shakespeare's life and times. (handout)
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This PowerPoint has more than you likely want to know about haiku, but you should view it anyway. If the video links embedded in the presentation don't work, view them here (Sokka haiku battle) and here (haiku songs).
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As always, effort counts more than artistic ability, but turn in work you’re proud of. In class we wrote poems inspired by works of art we found at museum websites. Follow these instructions (and consider these methods for writing your poem).
Design a Playbill cover for your play. (Do an image search for Playbill to see examples.) Your cover should include a significant graphic element inspired by your play, literally or figuratively. Effort will be rewarded, not artistic ability, but turn in something you’re proud of.
Do not cut and paste (or print out and paste) images from the internet. You may use photographs that you have taken. If you'd like a half page with the Playbill title at the top, download one. (You may also draw the title yourself.) Include a paragraph on the back explaining your decision for what to include/not include. Turn in completed assignment by January 30 for up to 10 points added to a classwork/homework grade; beyond that up to 5 points will be awarded. Transform Saki's short story "The Open Window" into a play. (Use these excerpts from John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men and his play version as examples.)
Begin your play with setting-related stage direction, as in this example from Steinbeck's play. Your play must be only one scene and may not include a narrator. This means you mus make stylistic decisions regarding Nuttle's flashback conversation with his sister (she can't just pop out from behind a couch, deliver her lines, and pop away again). Also, you'll have to decide how to include the final line of the story. Set off stage direction with either parentheses or square brackets. You are not limited to these museums, but odds are you can find a work of art (two-dimensional: painting, drawing, photograph) to use in the ekphrastic poetry assignment later this week. If possible, please print your artwork choice ahead of time.
Ekphrastic poetry is a term referring to poems that are inspired by or written in response to visual art. The poems "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams were both inspired by the poets viewing of Brueghel the Elder's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (below—be sure to find the dog; all great art includes a dog somewhere in the picture). Read and TPCASTT the poems (handout).
Paraphrase: What does the poem literally say? Connotations: What literary devices do you find? Also, consider:
Shifts: Where are the shifts? How does the poem shift? Final T: What is the theme? (express as a sentence) Turn in: How do “graphic” elements (e.g., line length, stanza breaks, “shape” of poem, punctuation or its lack) affect the reader’s appreciation* of the poem? Support with evidence from either poem. * “to grasp with full knowledge and understanding” rather than “to like.” Print out a copy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "I Have a Dream" speech (available here with audio recording).
Annotate for:
Then read and annotate Langston Hughes' "Harlem." How do King's speech and Hughes' poem address the idea of The American Dream? Support your response with embedded text evidence. Given recent events involving African-Americans and the police (i.e., Ferguson, Mo.; NYC, etc.), how relevant are King's speech and Hughes' poem today? Explain. (Support your response with embedded text evidence.) (Sorry Sophomores, Freshmen and 7th and 8th graders only.)
To receive a free ticket for the movie Selma this weekend (through MLK Day, Monday) show your current student ID or report card at any of the following theater box offices:
10,000 tickets are available, which sounds like a lot until you're the 10,001st person to show up.... In today’s project you will create your own continuum of tone using words from the Tone Vocabulary List you received as you entered (or a previous list of tone words, if you prefer).
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