1. Tragedy Fourth Quarter: 2012

2. Drill 1(4/10 AFG)(4/11D H)  Homework: Act I and Inference Quiz (4/12A)(4/13DFGH)  Status Check 3(4/13D)(4/16AFG)(4/17H)  Objective: SWBAT evaluate the differences between the text and visual representations while focusing on the artist/director’s motives in order to understand the play.  Drill: Take out a sheet of paper and put a proper heading on it.  Create a T-Chart to record differences and similarities between the play and the movie.  Respond to this question in three to four sentences.  Do the characters in the movie match the characters you visualized as you read the play. What is different? What is the same?

3. Drill 2 (4/11 AF)(4/12GH)  Homework: Act I and Inference Quiz (4/12A)(4/13DFGH)  Status Check 3(4/13D)(4/16AFG)(4/17H)  Objective: SWBAT analyze relationships between and among characters, setting, and events in order to make an inference as to the cause of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.  Drill: Review your goals from the first three quarters. Have you reached your goals? Explain why or why not.  What is your final goal for 8 th grade English? Remember to include both a goal and the action needed to reach that goal.

4. Drill 2 4/13 D Block  Homework: Read Act III scene I and complete notes  Status Check 4 4/23  Objective: SWBAT analyze relationships between and among characters, setting, and events in order to make an inference as to the cause of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.  Drill: Review your goals from the first three quarters. Have you reached your goals? Explain why or why not.  What is your final goal for 8 th grade English? Remember to include both a goal and the action needed to reach that goal.

5. Drill 3 (4/12 A) (4/13DFGH)  Homework: Status Check 3 (4/16 AFG)(4/17H)  All finish reading and notes for ACT II.  Do not do the BCR.  Objective: SWBAT analyze internal and/or external conflicts that motivate characters and those that advance the plot in order to understand the play.  Drill: Review for the quiz. Put name, date, block and Act I/Inference Quiz on the scantron.

6. Drill 4 (4/16AFG)(4/17HD)  AFGH take out status check 3 and works cited page  Homework: Act II quiz (4/20 AFG)(4/23DH)  Objective: SWBAT analyze figurative language that creates meaning in order to understand Romeo and Juliet.  Drill: Working with your team each student should complete the similes handout.  Leaders will be asked to share.

7. Drill 5 (4/17AF)(4/18DGH)  Homework: Status Check 4 (4/23 DF)(4/24AGH)  Act II quiz (4/20 AFG)(4/23DH)  Objective: SWBAT analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters in order to understand the play.  Drill: Identify the main and subordinate clauses in the following sentence.  I’ll find out your man, and he shall signify from time to time every good hap to you, that chances here.

8. Drill 5 continue  I’ll find out your man, and he shall signify from time to time every good hap to you, that chances here.  Main Clauses:  I’ll find your man  he shall signify from time to time every good hap to you  Subordinating clause:  that chances here  What kind of sentence has two main clauses and one or more subordinating clauses?  Compound-Complex  Scavenger Hunt: Identify the main and subordinating clauses  It is a meteor that the sun exhal’d to be to thee this night a torchbearer and light thee on thy way to Mantua. (Act III:v:13-15)  Main: It is a meteor, light thee on thy way to Mantua  Subordinating clause: that the sun exhal’d to be to thee this night a torchbearer

9. Drill 6 (4/18A)((4/19DFGH)  Homework: Status Check 4 (4/23 DF)(4/24AGH)  Reading as assigned  Act II quiz (4/20 AFG)(4/23DH)  Objective: SWBAT paraphrase lines of Shakespeare accurately in order to demonstrate understanding.  Drill: Read Act III:1:93-99  Paraphrase Mercutio’s words.  Identify the pun.

10. Act III:i:93-99  Mercutio: 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 will find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague a’ both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us! I was hurt under your arm.  Context clues: What does “Zounds” mean?  What does “rogue” mean?

11. Drill 7 (4/20AFG)(4/23DH)  D block take out Status Check 4  Homework: Status Check 4 (4/23 DF)(4/24AGH)  Reading as assigned  Objective: SWBAT analyze details that provide information about the setting, the mood created by the setting, and ways in which the setting affects characters.  Drill: Complete Scantron  Name  Block  Date  Act II quiz  Take out Act II notes and review with your team.