1. April 11-12, 2018
Objectives:
Answer multiple choice questions for a dramatic passage.
Analyze dramatic and poetic texts for characterization, tone, and rhetorical choices.
Catalyst:
Reading check: when you finish, vote for our board title!
Homework & Reminders:
Prepare for the in-class Q3 timed writing
LAST PERRINE’S READING! Handout for guidance on Google Classroom. Due 4.17/4.18.
King Lear assessment 4.25/4.26

2. Poetry analysis:
“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes (15 mins.)
Read/annotate the poem
In Google Classroom, respond to the following prompt in a well-developed paragraph:
How does Hughes develop the poem’s message through a specific figurative device?

3. Today’s Motif: What’s the leader’s place. 1
Today’s Motif: What’s the leader’s place? 1. Discussion: King Lear Acts I/II 2. Poetry composition: “On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High” by D. C. Berry 3. Multiple choice practice: excerpt from Oedipus the King

4. Discussion: King Lear Acts I/II

5. Read/annotate the poem
Poetry analysis: “On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High” by D. C. Berry
Read/annotate the poem
In Google Classroom, respond to the following prompt in a well-developed paragraph:
How does Berry’s extended metaphor develop the message of the poem?

6. Dramatic excerpt: Oedipus the King multiple choice
Read/annotate the excerpt.
Answer questions
13 mins.