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Agenda:
Vocab Quiz5.1 discussion
Essay comments
Your Act 2 journals are graded, posted on Skyward, and have comments on them on TurnItIn. We'll take some time to look these at the end of class. Make sure you look at these and take note of the comments, you don't want to keep loosing points for the same things.
Things coming up:Act 3 projects due Thursday
Act 4 test on Thursday
Act 3 & 4 Reflections due Monday
Start thinking about your Act 3 & 4 Reflections
Each essay must be answered in at least 3 paragraphs each. You must include specific examples (and their line, scene and act numbers) and explain them.
Remember, a paragraph is at least 7 sentences.
**Remember to cite each line that is quoted directly
Act 3 Journals
1. Who said these lines? Identify the character and scene. Briefly explain each quote (This means you must tell why each character said the following quotes and in what context. A - E do not have to be answered in three paragraphs).Remember to include the Act, Scene, Line
A) Tybalt, the reason that I have to love theeDoth much excuse the appertaining rageTo such a greeting. Villain am I none.Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.
B) I am hurt. A plague a both houses! I am sped.No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve.Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
C) O, I am fortune’s fool!
2. Why is this act considered to be the Climax? Give specific examples from the act to prove this concept. Also, reflect on the final events in this act, how does it set the reader up for Falling Action?
Act 4 Journals
1. Who said these lines? Identify the character and scene. Briefly explain each quote (This means you must tell why each character said the following quotes and in what context. A - E do not have to be answered in three paragraphs).Remember to include the Act, Scene, Line
A. “What must be shall be.”
B. “O, look! Methinks I see my cousin’s ghost seeking out Romeo that did spit his body upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee.”
C. Life and these lips have long been separated.Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field
2. Think about the isolation Juliet feels as—alone in her room—she prepares to take the sleeping potion. Identify FOUR people Juliet has depended on for love, advice, or help, and explain why she cannot turn to them now.
3. What do you think of Friar Lawrence's plan? What are its strong points and drawbacks?
There is No Escaping Shakespeare
Standards:
Standard - CC.1.2.9-10.A
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Standard - CC.1.3.9-10.K
Read and comprehend literary fiction on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
Standard - CC.1.2.9-10.J
