Writing Prompt: Due by October 11, 2013

You must post your own reply and then respond to one other classmate. You must write your first name, last initial, and class period each time you post. Example: Jackie C, period 1. You must also use academic language. Absolutely NO texting abbreviations. 


Go here to find the full text of the play: http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/Romeo_and_Juliet/index.html_

Prompt: The "balcony scene" (Act II, scene 2) is the most famous love scene in the history of the theater. What lines spoken by Romeo or by Juliet do you think are the most important, the most interesting, or the most beautiful? Why?

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In Theaters October 11

Introduction to Shakespeare

We are starting are unit on Shakespeare. Have you read any of his works?

Follow the link below for a wonderful prezi created about his life and accomplishments.

http://prezi.com/srfpg0nywvcz/william-shakespeare/

Text Selection: This exemplar text, taken from Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It, addresses universal themes with regard to aging and the meaning of life. The organizational structure of the speech, as well as the illuminating imagery, offers vivid and concrete avenues for exploration and close reading.

The Text: Shakespeare, William. Jaques’ Soliloquy from As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii)

                                All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts,

5      His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel Andshining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,

10   Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation

15   Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

20   Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

25    And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Vocabulary:

 sad; song that tells a story

  a leopard

chicken-like fowl

                                proverbs

                                the latest news or thing

                                ¾ length pants

                                stockings worn by fashionable men 

                                with pantaloons; calf of leg

                                  total forgetfulness 

                                  without (French)

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Labor Day Weekend

We have just wrapped up our fourth week of school, and we get to celebrate a long weekend.  Monday is Labor Day, and I hope everyone enjoys their extra time away from school.

Just a reminder, Jr. High Football will play Bassfield at home on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. Football players will be allowed to wear their jerseys, and Cheerleaders will be allowed to wear their cheer uniforms.

Thanks to everyone who has completed reading comprehension assignments via www.easycbm.com.

YOU ROCK!

Figurative Language

Figurative Language is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary meaning. It requires you to use your imagination to figure out the author's meaning.

“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper.”      

-T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”

These poetic lines use onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia refers to words that come from sounds. What do you think of the image in the poem? What do you think Eliot means?


Definitions for this week:

 Figurative Language  

 comparing different objects in a way it might not make sense

 Simile

 a comparison using like or as

 Metaphor  

 comparison not using like or as

 Hyperbole

 an exaggeration

 Personification  

 giving human qualities to animals or objects

 Word Relationships  

 these express grammatical relationships between words

 Synonyms

 words with the same meaning

 Antonyms  

 words with opposite meanings

 Multiple Meaning Words  

 words that can have several meanings, depending upon how they are used in a sentence

 Homonyms  

 words that sound the same but have different meanings

 Compound Words  

 two words combined to create a new word.

 Nuances

 little or small differences

Open House/Meet the Teacher Night

I would like to invite everyone to meet the teacher night. It will be held on Monday, August 12th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. We look forward to meeting and talking with you! See you there!