1. Agenda *Voice Lesson: Diction #4 *Intro to Vocab 8 (#1-10)
*Cause/Effect Activity – Act III)
*Othello, Act IV, Read – Scenes i, ii, and start iii
HW: Finish Act IV (with sub tomorrow?)

2. Reminders 3-4-19 Vocab Unit 8 starts today
Pic Quiz, Friday, March 8
Full Quiz, Friday, March 15
I will sign course registration sheets toward the end of class.
Othello – each night, you should:
re-read what we read in class in the modern English translation.
work on developing a study sheet for all the quotes I tell you to highlight as we read
Work on your characterization charts for Othello and Iago after each Act

3. Diction-3 Consider: Analysis: Apply:
“An aged man is but a paltry thing. A tattered coat upon a stick” W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”
Analysis:
What picture is created by the use of the word tattered?
By understanding the connotations of the word tattered, what do we understand about the persona’s attitude toward an aged man?
Apply:
List three adjectives that can be used to describe a pair of shoes. Each adjective should connote a different feeling about the shoes.

4. Diction-3 Consider: Analysis:
“An aged man is but a paltry thing. A tattered coat upon a stick” W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”
Analysis:
What picture is created by the use of the word tattered? Tattered connotes torn, ragged, and hanging. The picture created is one of a coat in shreds hanging loosely on a stick.
By understanding the connotations of the word tattered, what do we understand about the persona’s attitude toward an aged man? A tattered coat connotes hanging disarray. The reader understands the persona’s attitude toward an aged man: that he is insignificant, wasted, and of little value.

5. Vocab Unit 8 #1-10

6. Othello Discuss Sticky Note Response for Act III – 2 sticky notes
What surprised you in this Act?
What was confirmed for you in this act?)
Act III Cause and Effect Activity
Begin Act IV

7. Act III - Cause-Effect Timeline
Consider all of Act III
Identify FOUR or FIVE moments.
Put them in chronological order above the timeline (these are the WHAT)
Underneath the timeline (aligned with each moment), write a brief note to explain WHY that moment occurred.
EXAMPLE:
Cassio fights w/Roderigo Othello fires Cassio decides
& Montano Cassio to ask for his job back
Iago has manipulated people Othello trusted Iago Cassio looks to Iago for
and a situation to serve his purpose. He to tell him the truth. advice. Iago manipulates
not only cajoled Cassio to get drunk, but He believed his half-truths. another situation to his
he convinced Roderigo to instigate a fight. Cassio didn’t speak up. advantage. (People too.)