WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2013CO: SWD analyzing the figurative language in a text by determining the meaning. LO: SW read and explain key ideas in drama using focus questions.

7 minutes--Bell Work: Turn to page R12 in your book to see the definition for blank verse. Use the information in the definition to complete these sentences on your bell work paper. Copy the 6 sentences into Wednesday’s slot.

Blank verse is poetry written in _______________ iambic pentameter lines. This verse form was widely used by _______________________. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is written mostly in ____________ verse.

Iambic pentameter means the author has a pattern in writing. Shakespeare uses blank verse to show character rank in the play. The important characters all speak in blank verse.

CO: SWD analyzing the figurative language in a text by determining the meaning. LO: SW read and explain key ideas in drama using focus questions.

7 minutes --Video Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-kodKA_EU

18 minutes--Focus Questions You and your elbow partner will continue working on the focus questions.

Use each other to guide your conversation away from, “I don’t get it” to something more productive like, “I think he means this…”

Record your responses on your annotations/notes papers.

Turn in the blue box with your name on it when finished.

10 minutes--Analyzing Figurative Language Number off 1-9, quickly find members and sit with them

Your group will receive specific lines from the play

Identify the type of figurative language (metaphor, allusion, alliteration, etc.)

Then, EXPLAIN what this figurative language means (like why would Shakespeare compare this to that)

CO: SWD analyzing the figurative language in a text by determining the meaning. LO: SW read and explain key ideas in drama using focus questions.

Each group receives a white board. One person writes, one person stands, and one person speaks.

4 minutes--Closure: White board norms: no destroying someone’s property, only write what

is assigned, work with partner onlyStand up when you have finished writing these sentences

on the white board.The figurative language in our selection was_______. It shows

_______ in the play.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2013CO: SWD applying MLA format by constructing a proper in text citation.LO: SW write a rough draft to support a claim using an outline.

5 minutes--Bell Work: Using the information below, write a sentence using MLA format for quotations.

Arthur Miller

Quote: And so I thought to send [Ruth] to your Tituba—…Tituba knows how to

speak to the dead…I take it on my soul, but who else may surely tell me what person murdered my babies?

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2013 CO: SWD applying MLA format by constructing a proper in text citation.LO: SW write a rough draft to support a claim using an outline.

Article of the Week Read together

Annotate—yes, you can write on this paper!

CO: SWD applying MLA format by constructing a proper in text citation.LO: SW write a rough draft to support a claim using an outline.

Closure Norms (everyone shares, silently working, write clearly, clean up before leaving) On a white board, list the 4 most important ideas from the article.

Stand up when you are ready to share.