3/18

Agenda:
1st hour is independent worktime on either your essay, line memorization, or blocking.
Review yesterday's agenda for essay worktime guidelines.

2nd hour:  Review close reading technique and revise your close reading assignment by using the following rubric:  Due the Monday after Spring Break
https://drive.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/file/d/0BxmnlXt_7UBOOERPSU5yYW44NHc/view?usp=sharing

Close reading revision protocol:
a.  Review the rubric as a class and annotate.  Go over any questions there may be.
b.  Read the student example and annotate it with a partner, underlining especially good parts and explaining how they meet the rubric's standards.
c.  Review your own close reading and assess yourself using the rubric--what areas do you need to improve in?
d.  Spend the rest of the hour revising and refining your close reading.

Topics for close reading:
Theseus' speech:  http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/mids_5_1.html
Romeo and Juliet's sonnet:  http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_66.html

Follow-up:  memorize lines for act 1, REVISE YOUR CLOSE READING BY MONDAY AFTER SPRING BREAK

Also--if you'd like, check out this lovely poem, about Theseus' speech!
http://www.danagioia.net/poems/lunaticloverpoet.htm