Ms. Begen’s Blog

Welcome back from April Vacation!!  We’ll start this week by hearing your dramatic readings of your Prologue rewrites.  We’ll begin our reading of R&J with Act 1, Scene #5 and move on to Act 2.  After looking at last week’s Quiz and the first two R&J homeworks, I’ve decided NOT to assign new homework this week.  I’ll be returning the Quiz which you can take home to finish and return to me by Thursday, April 30th.  You may also make up one missing homework by completing and bringing to me no later than Monday, May 4th.  Extra Credit returns!!  This new Extra Credit assignment is due by 3:00pm on Monday, May 4th!  Here is the Extra Credit:  xtracredit4.27  If you’ve been lucky enough to read this blog entry before Monday at 8:00am, leave me a message and get 2 xtra points on your last Do Now!!

We’ll be watching Act #1 of Romeo & Juliet!  Remember . . . there’s a quiz on Act #1 on Friday.  If you need to reread a section of the play and don’t have your own copy of the play — find a link to the entire play by clicking on Interesting Links.  Let me know what you don’t understand. 

Before we all leave for April vacation we’ll be listening to the audio of Romeo & Juliet and reading along.  We’ll make sure we understand the vocabulary, understand exactly what is happening, and can appreciate the emotions and themes involved.  Your homework that was originally due last Friday will be accepted until 3:00pm on Monday, April 13th.  Your new homework is due 3:00pm on Friday, April 17th.  Feel free to use my office hours on Tuesday and Thursday of this week to work on your homework. 

Here is your homework:  R&JHW#2  

Romeo & Juliet begins with a Prologue — which is really a simple summary of the entire play.  Here’s the Prologue: r-prologue.  As we discussed in class, the Prologue is recited by the “chorus” to help explain what is about to occur.  Your homework is to complete the worksheet we began in class and then to create your own unique Prologue translation.  Be creative!!  You can use slang or rhyme.  You can write it as a poem (minimum of 10 lines) or as a long paragraph (minimum of 10 sentences).  You just need to make sure you give us (the audience) the same information that was given in Shakespeare’s original Prologue.  Here’s the worksheet with the translation instructions:  rjhw1prologue

Here it is!!   president-obamac2b9s-first-100-days