Class One: Text: Frost's "Out, out-". First vocab squares: toiling, thwarted, brute, brothel, venerable, babbles. Then read "Out, out-" several times. look up any word that you do not know. Then using the DEJ method, mark-up the poem. Then google the phrase :Out, out brief candle. . ." (lines 17-31). And finally, explain how these lines from "Macbeth" count to Frost's poem in an 8-11 line paragraph.
Class Two: Text: "My Last Duchess." first vocab squares for countenance, officious, mantle, munificence, warrant, stoop, trifling. Then: If you were Duke Tirol's agent, what would you advise your "boss" to do?
Class Five (Due Monday): First vocab squares-countenance, mantle, officious, munificence, warrant, trifling, stoop. Then google "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning" and down-load a copy. Then read the poem several times. And finally, mark-up the poem using a DEJ.
Class Six: Vocab squares(same words as Class Five). Then, using the poem as your only source of information, write a RAFT as follows: R-you are the Duke of Tirol's agent. He has sent sent you to the Duke of Ferrar's to negotiate a proposed marriage between Tirol's daughter and Ferrar. A-the audience is the Duke of Tirol to whom you are reporting your findings. F-you are writing a LETTER to the Duke of Tirol that contains your recommendations (positive or negative-can't be wishy-washy.) T-the TOPIC is the proposed marriage. What do recommend and why?
JUST A REMINDER: INDIE READING JOURNALS ARE DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 23.
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So, we only have to do the words we don't understand?
i dont understand the part where we have to act like the dukes assisstant... are we writing about it? what would we be advising him about?
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