Monday, June 19 - Friday, June 23

Monday

Your fact sheet about Elizabethan drama is due tomorrow.

Your song list for Midsummer Night's Dream is due on Wednesday, June 19.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ON THE RUBRIC, IDEAS AND CONTENT ARE VALUED MORE THAN THE LAYOUT AND DESIGN CRITERIA.

About the Song List assignment for Midsummer Night's Dream:

Relate the Shakespeare play and current songs. 

Activity:

1. Research current music to find connections of meaning through lyrics and musical

expression to the plot of the play

2. Create a list of song that accurately describes the arc of the plot of the play,

paying attention to particular words and moods that connect the song and the play.

3. Share your list, playing a few selections in class as time permits.

Your song list MUST include a Reflection:

• What difficulty did you have finding the right songs, if any?

• Were certain points of the play harder than others for which to find a current expression?

• Does your soundtrack point to a certain interpretation of the story as you see it?

• Were there certain characters you chose to highlight? Why?

Example of a song list for Romeo and Juliet:

Act I: 

1. Unnecessary Trouble (Hard-Fi, Stars of CCTV)

2. Older Guys (Teenage Fanclub, Thirteen)

3. The Wrong Girl (Belle and Sebastian, Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant)

4. Fresh Feeling (Eels, Souljacker)

Act II: 

5. Does He Love You? (Rilo Kiley, More Adventurous)

6. Hesitating Beauty (Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue)

7. Marry Me (St. Vincent, Marry Me)

Act III: 

8. Sugar Assault Me Now (Pop Levi, The Return to Form Black Magick Party)

9. The Payback (James Brown, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels OST)

Act IV: 

10. Vengeance Is Sleeping (Neko Case, Middle Cyclone)

11. I Love You Always Forever (Donna Lewis, Now in a Minute)

Act V: 

12. We Will Not Grow Old (Lenka, Lenka)

13. Brand New Colony (The Postal Service, Give Up)

14. Arms Tonite (Mother Mother, O My Heart)

15. O My Heart (Mother Mother, O My Heart)

16. How to Fight Loneliness (Wilco, Summerteeth)

17. Adventures in Solitude (The New Pornographers, Challengers)

18. The Ghost of You Lingers (Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)

19. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now (The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow)

20. Bad Day (Daniel Powter, Daniel Powter)

Monday, June 13 - Friday, June 17

Friday

1. Start to the song title plot assignment for MSND.
2. Fact sheet for Elizabethan theatre: Look at the fact sheets here at the link provided, gather some tid-bits of information that you find interesting and create your own fact sheet about Elizabethan theatre in general. Shakespeare's Globe: www.shakespearesglobe.com/discovery-space/fact-sheets?p=1

Thursday

1. Novel autograph was due YESTERDAY.
2. Shakespeare online scavenger hunt. COMPLETE TODAY.
3. Robin's ( aka Puck)  final speech from the play.
4. Plot diagram of the play as a start to the song title plot assignment for MSND.
5. Complete the two pages for comparing the film versions of Midsummer Night's Dream.

Wednesday

1. Novel autograph due TODAY. Peer editing.
2. Watch a bit more of MSND.
3. Shakespeare online scavenger hunt.
4. The Globe Theatre: http://hubpages.com/entertainment/globe-theater# - verify the fill-in the blanks together. 
5. Complete the two pages for comparing the film versions of Midsummer Night's Dream.

Tuesday
Shakespeare's Globe: www.shakespearesglobe.com/discovery-space/fact-sheets?p=1

1. Shakespeare online scavenger hunt.
2. The Globe Theatre: http://hubpages.com/entertainment/globe-theater# - complete the blanks for the handout together as an introduction. 
3. Go to : http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discovery-space/fact-sheets create 1 creative fact sheet about Elizabethan theatre. Include a few tidbits about:  actors, costumes, special effects,playhouses,audiences,the globe, Shakespeare, London. 
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5. Complete the two pages for comparing the film versions of Midsummer Night's Dream.

Monday
Shakespeare Internet Scavenger links
Biographical Background Go to www.bardweb.net/man.html  
Life in Elizabethan England Go to elizabethan.org/compendium/home.htm
A plague o’ both your houses! Rom. III.i.96 Go to www.william-shakespeare.info
More on the plague  www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-elizabethanera.htm

Monday, June 6 - Friday, June 10

Friday

1. Humour in MSND - explore a scene. Complete this work.

2. Insult skits - listen to several more. FORGOT TO DO THIS THURSDAY!

3. Comparing adaptations of MSND. Live-action, 1999 film version

Thursday

1. Humour in MSND - explore a scene.

2. Insult skits - listen to several more.

3. Comparing adaptations of MSND. Live-action, 1999 film version: 

Director:

 Michael Hoffman

Stars:

 Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett 

Wednesday

1. Do self-reflections for the first several MSND activities.

2. Insult skits - listen to several more.

3. Comparing adaptations. BBC animated Shakespeare. Watch to the end.

worldoceansday

http://www.fisheyeproject.org/worldoceansday

Tuesday

1. Mark the Shakespeare's humour - do self-reflection

2. Insult skits

3. Comparing adaptations. BBC animated Shakespeare.

Monday

1. English & Socials progress reports today.
2. Good copy of memoir was due Friday. I want to evaluate them before I give you a progress report for English.
3. Self-reflection on Stats Canada work was done Friday. Hand-in your geography booklets. 
4. From Friday - comedy in Shakespeare’s plays: add comic fools, ends with marriage to the list of comic ingredients. Do the topic sentence activities #3 & #4. Check for understanding #5. Vocab. #6 & #7. THIS WORK WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DUE TODAY.
5. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/midsummer-nights-dream - a short summary of the play.
6. BBC animated Shakespeare - a longer version of the play.
7. Insults https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCjKH5IKJ8
8. Insult skits!