Merchant of Venice Unit

There are a few key handouts that we will use as guides throughout the next 3 weeks, so I will not be posting the agenda and HW every day.

Here's the reading/notes schedule as outlined in the handout:

9/26F--9/27G HW: 1. Read 1.2 2. Do Notes #1

9/28G&F HW: review 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3. NO NOTES
9/30 G&F HW: 1. (add 2.1) 2.2-2.3 2. Do Reading Notes #2
10/3F—10/4G: 1. Read 2.6-2.7 2. Do Reading Notes #3
10/5 G&F: 1. Read 2.9 2. Do Reading notes #4
10/6 G&F: 1. Read 3.2 2. Do Reading notes #5
10/7 G&F: 1. Read (add 3.3)&3.4 2. Do Reading notes #6 (F BLOCK: read also 4.1 for Wednesday)
10/11 G: 1. Read 4.1 2. Catch up on notes
10/12: 1. Catch up on reading & notes & study guides
10/13: 1. finish reading 5.1 2. Reading notes #7

You will have a thesis paper that will be due during the week of 10/17.

The same length requirements for notes on Antigone are in effect for MOV.

Agenda week of 9/19/11 to 9/23/11

Monday (F)/Tuesday (G)
1. Brief Q/Q about Reading Notes 4; Hand in Antigone Reading notes 4
2. Get final version of the Antigone Study Guide (Due Thursday)
3. Go over Antigone Essay (handout)
4. Go to computer lab to set up turnitin.com accounts.

HW:
1. Finish Antigone Study Guide + Definitions of Vocab words (due Thursday)
2. Work on Antigone Essay thesis & Planner
3. Make your Peace Rock (see links in top-right of this page for details)

Wednesday
1. go to computer lab to work on Antigone essay--Bring your Antigone Essay Planner & Study Guide!
HW: finish a complete rough draft of essay; finish complete study guide + vocab

Thursday
1. Antigone Study Guide & vocab due
2. peer review rough drafts--G block-->Goldrick Lab; F block-->Cutler Lab
2.a once in lab go click on link to turnitin.com, upload your rough draft, get a rubric and give feedback to peers.
HW:
1. Submit your final version of Antigone essay to Turnitin.com by Sunday.

Friday
2 Schools/1 Book event.

HW:
1. Submit your Antigone Essay to turnitin.com (G block can do PeerMark on turnitin on Monday.)
2. Get your copies of "Ender's Game" and "Merchant of Venice" and bring MOV to class on Monday.

Agenda 9/16/11

1. Add the following questions to Antigone Study Guide:
a. What advice does the Chorus give Creon (p. 24)?
b. What does Creon want to know from Haemon (p 25) and what does Haemon answer?
c. What are Creon's reasons for killing Antigone?
d. Describe Haemon's attitude toward Creon (pp 26-27)? What is his counsel to Creon?
e. How does Creon take Haemon's counsel? Give evidence.
f. Explain Creon's hubris.

2. Everyone handed in Reading Notes for Antigone readings 2 + 3.

HW:
1. Finish the play
2. Do reading notes for last 15 or so pages.
3. Look over the study guide questions and use them for review purposes.

Agenda 9/15/11

1. RL #5 "Happy the man whose cup of life is free from taste of evil! If Heaven's influence shake them, no ill but follow, till it overtake them, all generations of his family." Sophocles p 23

2. Go over Reading notes for pp 1-21

3. Read from "Antigone"

HW:
1. Read up to "Exuent Antigone" on p 35
2. Do Reading Notes

Note: You do not have to do the Study Guide or the Vocabulary sheets that were handed out in class today. At least not tonight. Bring both to class tomorrow. We will do the study guides in small groups. The Vocab sheet (parts 1 & 2) will be homework over the weekend.

Agenda 9/14/11

1. RL #3: (9/14/11)--"And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forbears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God." John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address.

2. Big discussion about natural rights, personal responsibility, freedoms and being a good citizen.

HW: (amendment to "Antigone" assignment sheet)
1. From Antigone, read pp. 10-22
2. Do Reading Notes #2

Don't forget: You must get your own copy of Shakespeare's Merchant of Veniceand Card's Ender's Game by next week.

Agenda for Antigone Unit (9/12/11-9/19/11)

Antigone Overview

Essential questions:
• Is it ever ok to break the law? If so, when?
• What is a stalemate and how does it happen?
• What attitudes can help disagreeing parties achieve compromise?


We will read this play in one week. For each reading assignment, you are required to take Reading Notes. Here is a template for your reading notes:

Title:
Pages read: date:

Main characters Description Defining characteristics





Plot Summary:




Key Quotations: (we will add more to this section in class, so leave space)



Tricky Vocabulary:



Questions that you have:




The length of your Reading Notes should be in the following ballpark:
Curriculum 2: half a page handwritten on college ruled 8.5 x 11” paper
Curriculum 1: one page
Honors: one-and-a-half to two pages.


9/12F--9/13G HW: 1. Watch Antigone video (http://vimeo.com/3919645) 2. Read pp. 1-9 in Dover edition of Antigone 3. Do Reading Notes

9/14G&F HW: 1. Read Antigone pp. 23-29 2. Do Reading Notes

9/15G&F HW: 1. Read pp. 42-52 2. Do Reading Notes


Small group discussion will take place on Friday 9/16. Your small group will discuss one (or more) of the essential questions. You will formulate a consensus answer for the question, give evidence from the play to support your answer and present to class.

The Essay:
Everyone will write an essay for one of the essential questions. Honors students should answer at least two of the essential questions. You must devise an original thesis statement that insightfully answers the question(s). We will meet in the computer lab next week to work on the essay together. We will also set up our accounts for using Turnitin.com.

Monday 9/19 F block to Cutler Computer Lab
Tuesday 9/20 G block to Cutler
Wednesday 9/21 G block to Cutler; F block to Goldrick

The essay will be submitted online to Turnitin.com. The due date is Thursday 9/22 at 11 pm.

HW for 9/9/11

1. Prepare your graphic organizer for the Zeitoun in-class essay, which will happen on Monday for F and Tuesday for G.  You can use your graphic organizer and your copy of Zeitoun in class.  You can not use any other notes.  Honors students should plan on writing 2-3 pages, CI students should write about 1.5-2 pages, & CII students should write at least 1 page.  Here are the prompts that you can choose from: 

• What kind of injustice happens to Zeitoun? What impact does it have on him? 
• Which of the following labels apply to Zeitoun: upstander, bystander, target, aggressor. Use all four while explaining which apply to him. What can an individual do to stop injustice from happening? 
• How can something positive be made of injustice? Explain how Zeitoun suffers injustice and how he responds to injustice while he is incarcerated and after he is released. 

2.  You all have to obtain your own copy of Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card by Monday 9/19/11.  Talk to me on Monday if this is a problem.

1. Hand in HW. 2. RL#2 If Nademah Zeitoun were in this class, how would you feel? How would you approach her and make her feel comfortable? 3. Discuss & tie in to yesterday's RL--take notes on discussion in your RL 4. Note cards: (write your info on the note card given--see yesterday's agenda) 5. Discussion. (TAKE NOTES) What is "injustice?", Describe an example of injustice in the book, "Zeitoun", How does it make you feel to hear about it happening to someone?, How does injustice affect Abdulrahman, Kathy and/or his children? HW: 1. What is injustice? Give an example of when have faced injustice in your life and write about what each of us can do to help make sure that injustice doesn't happen in our school.

Agenda for Wednesday 9/7/11: 1. Rl#1 "Be Yourself. All others are taken." Oscar Wilde Take 5 minutes to respond to this quotation. What does it mean to you. Write your response in your RL notebook. 2. Notecards: (we will do this on Thursday) Write your name, advisory, advisor, email address, parents' names & email addresses, and your interests on the card and return it to me. 3. Materials 4. Zeitoun Discussion #1 Respond (in writing) to quotations given in class. HW: 1. Find a passage that deals with injustice. Find a quotation, write it down with page # and write a 1-page analysis

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