Literature and Composition
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"Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species." -- John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 |
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Literature and Composition
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The Chalkboard |
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| Journal/ Reading / Assignment | Date |
| Index Card/ Assignment Page | August 27 |
| Literature: Do We Need it? | August 28 |
| Read: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama pp. 574-577 | August 31 |
| Shakespeare: Ten Questions | August 31 |
| Shakespeare Biography | Sept. 4 |
| Romeo and Juliet: Big Questions Groups | Sept. 5 |
| Romeo and Juliet: Act I/ Queen Mab Illustration | Sept. 6 |
| Romeo and Juliet: Journal p.606 #5 and #10 | Sept. 12 |
| Foil Relationships/Soliloquy and Aside | Sept. 14 |
| Act III: Advice to Juliet/ Journal | Sept. 17 |
| Act IV and Act V: Romeo and Juliet: Tragic Flaws? Fortune's Fool?/ Journal | Sept. 24 |
| Franco Zeffirelli/1968 Romeo and Juliet: Notes/Prewriting | Sept. 25 |
| Journal: Zeffirelli/ What did you like?/dislike? Why? | Sept. 28 |
| Journal: Luhrman/What did you like?/dislike? Why? | Oct. 3 |
| Romeo and Juliet Essay Prewriting | Oct. 5 |
Literature and Composition
What You Need:
Grading:
PAGAD = 40%
(Projects/Presentations, Activities, Groups, Discussion and Debate)
TESTS = 30%
Writing/Journals = 30%
= 100% of Quarter Grade
Semester Exam = 20%
Quarter 1 = 40%
Quarter 2 = 40%
= 100% of Semester Grade
Keys:
Participate!
Respect !
Be A Good Student !
Index Card:
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Your email / Parent email
Favorites:
Classroom Policy:
Do your BEST.
Try it—Participate! Come
to class on time.
If you are absent,
YOU are responsible for getting notes, making up assignments, tests and so on.
Be sure to see me when you return to get make up assignments.
McManis’s
keys to the game:
Respect!
For yourself…
Your peers…
Your school…
The Learning Process...