Agenda Juniors - Great Gatsby Freshmen - SHAKESPEARE

Good Morning QUIZ TODAY! Step 1: Please grab your notebook, a copy of The Great Gatsby Step 2: Start a fresh page, date it and title it Gatsby Reflection: By the end of the book we will learn that Tom Buchanan and George Wilson have more similarities than differences. For right now list out the differences they have and then draw them to your description. WRITE THIS DEFINITION DOWN: FOIL: a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another.

INFLATION Definition of 'Inflation' The rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services is rising, and, subsequently, purchasing power is falling. Central banks attempt to stop severe inflation, along with severe deflation, in an attempt to keep the excessive growth of prices to a minimum. A CLOSER LOOK! HW: What kind of place could you rent in N.Y. for this amount today? Find a place that is in in their price range on the internet this weekend. Bring in the advertisements! ForRent Craigslist Apartments.com Trulia Redfin Zillow Why were the Fitzgeralds renting, anyway?

You will take it in April or May of this year. It is all on the computer If you passed the HSPE last year then it will not count towards graduation BUT To entice you to try at this test the Students who score proficient or higher on the scoring rubric do not have to take a remedial class in college. Also, there is a chance that your SBAC scores will be reported on their transcripts for colleges to see. SMARTER BALANCED ASSESSMENT CONSORTIUM SBAC

Good Morning/Afternoon Write a Seasons Poem SPRING IS ________,________,___________. SUMMER IS __________, __________, ________. AUTUMN IS __________,___________,________. WINTER IS __________, _________, _________. Step 1: Grab your notebook Step 2: Start a fresh page or continue from where you last were date it and label it DO NOW: Make A POEM SEASONS Try to come up with three words that rhyme as you think about each of the seasons of the year. Follow your creative urge and make up words SAMPLE: Spring is showery, flowery, bowery Summer is hoppy, choppy, poppy Autumn is wheezy, sneezy, freezy Winter is slippy, drippy, nippy -Anonymous

Shakespeare Uncovered Video A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Hugh Bonneville Shakespeare’s Poetic Forms How does Shakespeare uses poetic from to instruct the actors on how to play their role in a scene? You should be able to come up with several elements that Hugh lists in the video. In the end Mr. Bonneville states that with shifts in form and language Shakespeare is writing his own what?

SONNET 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

SHAKESPEARE GRAB an ORANGE Textbook Open to page 982 Read pages In Notebooks: 1.Compare/contrast England in Shakespeare’s day to the US today. 2.How do you think the presence of a mixed audience of upper and lower classes at the theater might have affected Shakespeare’s plays? 3.What was the main idea of the section under the head “Shakespeare’s impact on the English Language.” 4.DEFINE: Tragedy, Comic Relief, Foil, Soliloquy & Aside