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.
So, we only have to do the words we don't understand?
ReplyDeletei 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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