02/28/2014

Happy Friday! 

Weekend Homework:

Take notes on the following Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Power Point. Intro to Play Notes
Read Act I of the play.

Happy Weekend!

Ms. Johnson

02/26/2014

• Finish Death of a Salesman
• Today: We listened to Mr. Kramer present his insights and experiences playing the role of Willy Lowman.

Ms. Johnson

If you were absent on Friday, I collected the following:

• The open-ended prompt (where you wrote an open-ended prompt for practice)
• Your quote from a favorite work of choice should you be able to use it on the AP exam. 
• ***Both of these can go on the same piece of paper.

Friday's Lesson: Click on the link below and free-write for 3 minutes on each category in the Power Point. We listened to music and did this. Each category is a theme in the play. Do not worry about grammar.

Death of a Salesman Journal

Today in Class:

• Act I Death of a Salesman Quiz

Ms. Johnson

Homewor

1. Choose a novel or play that you would love to be able to use as your work of choice on the AP exam, and write an open-ended prompt for that particular work as well as a memorable quote that you feel you could easily memorize.

Be ready to share both tomorrow!

2. Create an Open-Ended Prompt Placemat (Just like your poetry one) that the class will use to help them write their open-ended prompt essays. The best one will receive extra points towards a low scored assignment.

Johnson

02/18/2014

No reading homework tonight . . .

Today we discussed characters from Raisin in the Sun.
We will finish the character discussion and begin a Socratic Seminar over the entire play tomorrow.

***Coming up: Purchase Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard.

Next play: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (we will begin Friday but start reading now if you like)

Ms. Johnson

02/14/2014

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Weekend Homework: Read Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. It's in both anthologies. Come prepared to quiz or discuss it.

Next Week's Schedule: 

Tuesday: Discuss Raisin
Wednesday:Hand out Drama Test Review Sheets/ Discuss Raisin
Thursday: Begin Death of a Salesman
Friday: Possible Guest Speaker
Monday: Drama Test Review
Tuesday: Drama Test!
Wednesday: Drama Essay
Thursday: Begin the best novel ever Wuthering Heights!!!

See you Tuesday, over and out!

Johnson

02/08/2014

Happy Wintery Wonderland to you! What fun it's been to enjoy time in the snow with family; I hope you have had a relaxing, fun time in the snow with no accidents or issues.

I am sure it's no surprise that you would be asked to finish A Doll's House over the weekend and be prepared to quiz or discuss it when you return (Monday perhaps? perhaps not?)

Enjoy your weekend,

Ms. Johnson