1. FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL
IB ENGLISH II HL

2. MONDAY/TUESDAY WARM UP PAPERWORK: schedules, calendars, summer reading
RULES/REGS: cell policy, grading changes, flex time
BUSES/FIRE DRILL
NAME TAGS
INSTA WALL
BLOBS & LINES
SYLLABUS
OTHELLO ANTICIPATION GUIDE
OTHELLO: 4 QUESTIONS
OTHELLO: CHARACTERS & KEYS
SIX WORD MEMOIR

3. WARM UP
Draw a picture of something you hope will happen this year.

4. PAPERWORK
Schedules
Syllabus
Calendar
YAG

5. Supplies Texts (see syllabus) Pens, pencils, etc. Agenda/calendar
Notebook/paper
Sticky notes (at least two pads)
Highlighters

6. RULES/REGS School/Class cell phone policy
Grading Changes (REMEDIATION)
Flex Schedule
Restroom
Talking/respect

7. BUSES
Back to School Bus Safety Rules
Bus Schedule

8. FIRE DRILL

9. WHAT’S YOUR NAME AGAIN?

10. Blobs and Lines
Hallway: Line up or from “blobs” based on something you have in common with others as prompted by the instructor.

12. Get you name tag before you sit down, please

13. WEDNESDAY ANNOTATION DIAGNOSTIC DRAMA TERMS COLLEGE ESSAY
WARM UP
PAPERWORK: syllabus, schedules, calendars, summer reading
RULES/REGS: cell policy, grading changes, flex time
INSTA WALL
QUIZ GUIDELINES
ANNOTATION GUIDELINES
ANNOTATION DIAGNOSTIC
DRAMA TERMS
COLLEGE ESSAY
OTHELLO: CHARACTERS & KEYS
OTHELLO INTRO PPT
AGENDA/CALENDAR EXAMPLES

14. WARM UP
Draw pictures of four goals: One academic, one personal, on hobby/extracurricular, and one for after you graduate high school.

15. IB English: Share It
Tell me one silly/light-hearted/unusual thing about yourself that no one else in the classroom knows. Make sure to give the back story (if there is one) or the details surrounding the thing you are sharing.

16. INSTA WALL

18. Get you name tag before you sit down, please

19. FRIDAY PAPERWORK: Last day for summer reading; syllabus
ANNOTATION DIAGNOSTIC: Finish
DRAMA TERMS QUIZ
COLLEGE ESSAY
OTHELLO: CHARACTERS & KEYS
OTHELLO INTRO PPT
AGENDA/ CALENDAR EXAMPLES

20. Schedule Changes Info
Level up - students may level up ASAP if they have the grades, test history, motivation and/or teacher recommendation to take on the challenge.  Let's get those done ASAP.
Level down - students must wait until the end of the first 9 weeks before leveling down.  Please do not sign a level down schedule change request because it leads to disengagement from the student who might not have the option of leveling down at the end of the first nine weeks. 
Mistakes - we will certainly review situations where a student is not placed in the correct course. 
Elective Changes - not happening. 

21. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice

22. Keys to Understanding Othello
The major characters: Othello, Desdemona, Iago.
The secondary characters: Cassio, Emilia, and Roderigo.
The play’s tragic movements.
What makes the play tragic is the key players not asking the right questions.
The exploitation of race is a topic uncommonly discussed in Elizabethan times.
Symbolic art – medieval art—focus on universals (archetypes) by presenting them through the particulars.
Villain: In a symbolic work the villain is not just one bad guy. He would represent evil in the world. It is the symbolism in action that represents the evil.
Conversely the halo represents holiness—good.

23. Characters
Othello – the tragic figure---the general, well-respected by the Venetian Senate, educated, a Moor (black).  In giving the lead to a person of color, Shakespeare was reacting against the conventions of the period, which equated beauty to whiteness.  Do we still equate beauty to whiteness?

24. Characters
Desdemona – Othello’s wife, whom he loves, daughter to the senator Brabantio (so we know she isn’t “trash.”  Do you think her father, Brabantio, a senator, would have a problem with his daughter eloping and marrying a man of color?  She is beautiful, loyal wife who loves her husband---very sophisticated.

25. Characters
Brabantio – Desdemona’s father, Venetian Senator.

26. Characters
Iago – the villain, hates Othello (why?), he is believed to be honest.  Perhaps we see Iago as Machiavellian meaning the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct. The idea here is that people were by nature untrustworthy, malevolent and self- serving, and thus those in power could only maintain their position through exploitative and deceitful actions. We need to figure out if Iago is a plausible character.

27. Characters Cassio is Othello’s lieutenant, shallow character.
Roderigo – is the suitor to Desdemona, foppish, foolish.

28. Characters
Emilia- Iago’s wife. She will have her moment of truth later in the play.
Bianca- courtesan in Cyprus; prostitute of sorts