Week 6

Botticelli, "The Birth of Venus"

Pure Poetry

Plus . . . it is spring

Monday 04/28/14

1. I feel the need to finish something . . . do you suppose it is a possibility . . . nope . . . okay
2. Poetry options - look at the table of contents in the Lemon Yellow book pp. xii - xxv and notice that there are subsections numbered 19 - 40, which really only equals 20 selection groupings because number 19 isn't really a poetry classification of a type of poetry.  You may select 4-8 poems from any one grouping to discuss in your Summative Portfolio analysis essay.  Confused?  Look in the Lemon Yellow book to clarify. Oh, and there is a chapter (54) entitled, "Writing about Poetry," should you care to know.
3. And now, a shocking poem to further throw off your day

Tuesday 04/29/14

1. Please, let's finish the movie
2. Hamlet team time
3. Synthesis - truly

Thursday 05/01/14

1. V34:  acrimonious, blithe, calumny, compunction, debacle, devotee, duplicity, equanimity, equivocal, extol, ameliorate, avarice, burgeon, circumlocution, credence, idee fixe, idiosyncracy, imbroglio, ipso facto, jejune
2. Synthesis - w/ HW to be developed on the fly and to be given audibly - be on the alert
3. Hamlet team time - did you notice what I did here?

Dome?  What dome?

You transcended the Thunderdome last week!

Monday 04/21/14

1.  Weekly

2.  ". . .rembrances of yours that I have longed long to redeliver."

3.  Let's try again . . . with technology - who's doing what?

4.  . . . next level/layer:  how will you address Hamlet's level of madness?  

5.  V32:  prosaic, relegate, respite, salubrious, sedentary, stringent, swagger, tumultuous, abstruse, antediluvian, surreptitious, tirade, trenchant, upshot, whimsical, gerrymander, grist, harangue, harbinger, hirsute

Tuesday 04/22/14 & Thursday 04/24/14

1.  Synthesis review and strategy

2.  Hamlet prep time

3.  V32

4.  Summative Portfolio requirements - due 05/15/14

5.  Expository Presentation requirements - 05/20/14 & 05/222/14

Quick View Time Line:
Week 5 - happening now!
Week 6 - PR, ?
Week 7 - Review/Disco/Exam
Week 8 - Hamlet Project, Portfolios due 05/15
Week 9 - Presentations Tue./Thu.
Week 10 - that Film Study I promised you?

Week 3

"The readiness is all."

Monday 04/07

1.  Turn in Hamlet arguments

2.  Longo's Hamlet love continues

HW = Using evidence from the play, write an essay that explores what Shakespeare might be suggesting about women's roles in society?  Explain similarities and differences you see in our current culture, making sure to use your own experiences or any avenues of contemporary artistic expression to support your observations.  Due next class.

Tuesday 04/08

1.  If you are thinking, "No more, sweet Hamlet" you have another coming . . .

2.  Hey, what have we not discussed: symbols, motifs, politics?

Thursday 04/10

1.  In-class essay and short answer exam