1. Honors English II Agenda 4/17/2017
Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc.
Distribute Vocabulary and AOW
Warm Up: Analysis Practice
Review the Objectives and Essential Questions
Grammar and Tone Review
Introduce Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act I
Complete a Closure Question
Week NCCat students read yellow wallpaper, bliss, and woman hollering creek w/ questions and test

2. Objectives:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
Analyze diction, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text and how it impacts tone

3. Essential Questions
To what extent do religious and spiritual beliefs motivate one’s choices? Is morality ever relative?
When are the qualities of indecision and procrastination valuable? When do they simply hinder one’s goals?
Is justice an unattainable ideal in the real world?
Can excessive ambition/desire lead one to act against one’s conscience or sense of morality?
How does one establish credibility? How can misinformation or unsubstantiated facts impact one’s goals and/or behavior?
How should we react when we have been hurt by someone? Is revenge ever appropriate or is it our responsibility to forgive?

4. Up the staircase surges the students.
Grammar Practice- Identify the error (pronoun agreement, sub/verb agreement, misplaced modifiers, fragment/punctuation, parallel structure) in the following:
Up the staircase surges the students.
Henry lives in Tampa where you can sunbathe all year long.
The campers slipped on the mossy rocks crossing the river.
There are seventeen species of penguins, emperor penguins are the largest.
Members of the committee are Jane, Han, and a junior Preston.

5. Tone Review
Understanding tone requires an understanding of all the elements writers use to create it: diction, detail, figurative language, imagery and syntax.
Tone is the expression of the author’s attitude toward his audience and subject matter. It can also be the expression of the speaker OR narrator’s attitude his listener or subject matter. And sometimes it’s a little of both. It is the feeling that grows out of the material, the feeling that the writer creates for the reader. There are many different tones as there are feelings: serious, light-hearted, playful, sarcastic, accepting,etc. The trick is to be able to identify and create tone in writing.

6. Tone Review
It is difficult to understand and create tone in writing since you can’t depend on vocal and facial expressions. But it can be done. Just as we understand tone in speech from what is said and how it’s said, the same is true in writing. It just takes more practice. You need practice in figuring out what the tone is and how the tone is created. We create tone through the elements:
Diction
Detail
Figurative language
Imagery
Syntax
When you understand tone, you can connect to the writer’s thoughts and expression.

7. Tone Practice
“There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide. No other force that affects the sea is so strong. Compared with the tide the wind-created waves are surface movements felt, at most, no more than a hundred fathoms below the surface.”-Carson, The Sea Around Us
What is Carson’s attitude toward the tide?
Carson uses negative constructions several times in this paragraph (There is no…not even in the…that does not know…No other force…”) Yet her tone is uniformly positive and reverential. How does the use of negatives create such a positive tone?

8. Shakespeare’s Tragedies Notes
Shakespeare’s tragedies are plays that show a reversal of fortune, from good to bad and have the following characteristics:
The tragic hero, is a person, usually of noble birth, who suffers a catastrophe. The hero’s choices surrounding the catastrophe may reveal a personal short coming, (self pity, arrogance, jealousy etc), called a tragic flaw. Shakespeare’s emphasizes the hero’s internal conflict using the following traits
They are complex characters who have opposing desires or suffer doubts. (Hamlet- cannot bring himself to act)
They present their confused feelings through soliloquies, speeches in which the heroes speak their thoughts aloud.
Their tragedies are due more to choices they make than to fate.
Their actions sometimes have good motives but bad outcomes.
Foil in a character placed in the story to contrast the main character
(Horatio, Ophelia, Laertes, and Fortinbras)

9. Shakespeare’s Tragedies-Other Characteristics
Common people in the play provide comic relief in their humorous scenes (grave yard scene)
The turning point of the play is called the crisis and usually occurs around ACT III.
The point of greatest emotional intensity is called the climax. It occurs in ACT V.
Blank verse is unrhymed poetry with a regular meter, or pattern of beats.
It has five pairs of syllables called feet. Each foot is an iamb. An iamb consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Together, the five iambic feet in the line of blank verse are called iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare often uses prose and verse to show the social rank of the characters. Aristocratic characters usually speak in blank verse. Minor, low-born, or comic characters do not speak in verse. They speak in prose.

10. Other things to note:
Strange occurrences in nature or supernatural activity also parallels human unrest.
Ghosts weren’t always trustworthy. They could be hallucinations, spirits with work they wished to complete, specters portending something, or devils disguised as dead people.
“Honest” refers to telling the truth as well as maintaining ones chastity.
Catholicism- Last rites: one must confess and repent of sins prior to death to avoid purgatory or hell.
The state of the nation mirrors the state its rulers (references to decay because of the sudden death of the king)
It was considered indecent for a widow or widower to marry their brother-in-law (sister-in-law)
Shakespeare plays with ambiguity (moral, political, romantic, spiritual, linguistic (puns/paradoxes) etc.)
Hamlet refers to the king (King Hamlet) and the son (Prince Hamlet).

11. Themes Mortality Appearance vs. Reality
Corruption, Specifically Moral Corruption
Revenge
Action vs. Inaction
Role of Women
Madness
Duty/Responsibility

12. Honors English II Agenda 4/18/2017
Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc.
Vocabulary Notes
Complete the Warm-Up: Analysis Practice
Review the Objectives and Essential Questions
Grammar and Tone Review
Continue Reading and Analyzing Hamlet Act I Complete Paraphrasing Assignment and Begin Study Questions
Complete a Closure Question

13. Objectives
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
Analyze diction, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text and how it impacts tone

14. Essential Questions
To what extent do religious and spiritual beliefs motivate one’s choices? Is morality ever relative?
When are the qualities of indecision and procrastination valuable? When do they simply hinder one’s goals?
Is justice an unattainable ideal in the real world?
Can excessive ambition/desire lead one to act against one’s conscience or sense of morality?
How does one establish credibility? How can misinformation or unsubstantiated facts impact one’s goals and/or behavior?
How should we react when we have been hurt by someone? Is revenge ever appropriate or is it our responsibility to forgive?

15. Many secrets of the universe has yet to be discovered.
Grammar Practice- Identify the error (pronoun agreement, sub/verb agreement, misplaced modifiers, fragment/punctuation, parallel structure) in the following:
Many secrets of the universe has yet to be discovered.
They like camping because you can be close to nature.
Lana saw several distant farmhouses and barns climbing the trees.
We heard noises in the chimney, a raccoon had moved in.
I saw the deer run across the field sitting on the porch.

16. Tone Practice
“And I started to play. It was so beautiful. I was so caught up in how lovely I looked that at first I didn’t worry how I would sound. So it was a surprise to me when I hit the first wrong note and realized something didn’t sound quite right. And then I hit another and another followed that. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right tract. I played this strange jumble through two repeats, the sour notes staying with me all the way to the end.” – Tan, The Joy Luck Club
How does the narrator’s attitude toward her performance change in the passage?
How does the author’s use of detail, diction, and imagery reveal the narrator’s changing attitude?

17. Honor English II Agenda 4/19/2017
Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc.
Complete the Warm-Up: Analysis Practice
Review the Objectives and Essential Questions
Grammar and Tone Review
Complete ACT I, Study Questions and Paraphrase Practice
Complete a Closure Question

18. Objectives
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
Analyze diction, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text and how it impacts tone

19. Essential Questions
To what extent do religious and spiritual beliefs motivate one’s choices? Is morality ever relative?
When are the qualities of indecision and procrastination valuable? When do they simply hinder one’s goals?
Is justice an unattainable ideal in the real world?
Can excessive ambition/desire lead one to act against one’s conscience or sense of morality?
How does one establish credibility? How can misinformation or unsubstantiated facts impact one’s goals and/or behavior?
How should we react when we have been hurt by someone? Is revenge ever appropriate or is it our responsibility to forgive?

20. This list of names are very important.
Grammar Practice- Identify the error (pronoun agreement, sub/verb agreement, misplaced modifiers, fragment/punctuation, parallel structure) in the following:
This list of names are very important.
Neither of the girls left their umbrella on the bus.
Rachel fashioned sculptures of the fairgoers made of clay.
Three boys riding mountain bikes and wearing brightly colored helmets.
I was sure in the tree that he spotted the owls.

21. Tone Practice
“DiMaggio burst upon the nation just nine years after Charles Lindbergh almost inadvertently invented celebrity of a degree- of a kind really – never before experienced. DiMaggio played a team game but somehow knew, in the intuitive way an artist has of knowing things, that our rough-and-tumble democracy, leveling though it is, responds to an individual with an aura or remoteness. –Will, “The First Michael Jordan”
What is Will’s attitude toward DiMaggio?
List what specific diction, detail, imagery, and syntax create the tone.

22. What is the PURPOSE of the following devices
Repetition
Imagery
Indirect Characterization
Direct Characterization
Flat Characters
Round Characters
Syntax (Colon, Semicolon, Dash)
Dialect
Setting

23. Honors English II Agenda 4/20/2017
Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc.
Paraphrase Due Tomorrow
Complete the Warm Up-Analysis Practice
Review the Objectives and Essential Questions
Grammar Review and Tone Practice
Complete Study Questions and Paraphrase
Introduce the Acting Assignment
Complete a Closure Question

24. Objectives
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
Analyze diction, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text and how it impacts tone

25. Essential Questions
To what extent do religious and spiritual beliefs motivate one’s choices? Is morality ever relative?
When are the qualities of indecision and procrastination valuable? When do they simply hinder one’s goals?
Is justice an unattainable ideal in the real world?
Can excessive ambition/desire lead one to act against one’s conscience or sense of morality?
How does one establish credibility? How can misinformation or unsubstantiated facts impact one’s goals and/or behavior?
How should we react when we have been hurt by someone? Is revenge ever appropriate or is it our responsibility to forgive?

26. This list of names are very important.
Grammar Practice- Identify the error (pronoun agreement, sub/verb agreement, misplaced modifiers, fragment/punctuation, parallel structure) in the following:
This list of names are very important.
Neither of the girls left their umbrella on the bus.
Rachel fashioned sculptures of the fairgoers made of clay.
Three boys riding mountain bikes and wearing brightly colored helmets.
I was sure in the tree that he spotted the owls.

27. Tone Practice
“Shug come over and she and Sofia hug. Shug say, Girl, you look like a good lime, you do. That when I notice that Shug talk and act sometimes like a man. Men say stuff like that to women, Girl, you look like a good time. Women always talk bout hair and health. How many babies living or dead, or got teef. Not bout how some woman they hugging on look like a good time.” -Walker, The Color Purple
What is the tone of this passage: what attitude toward Shug, toward men, and toward women underlies the passage?
Walker repeats the phrase looks like a good time, three times in the passage. How does this use of repetition help create the tone of the passage?

28. Identify the PURPOSE of the following:
Irony
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Allusion
Metaphor
Symbol
Personification
Soliloquy

29. Honors English II Agenda 4/21/2016
Housekeeping- place homework on the right corner, sharpen your pencils, dispose of any trash etc.
AOW on Right Corner
Act I- Questions and Paraphrase
Review Objectives and Essential Questions
Complete Test and Essay