Many students have not sent in the answers to their study questions for Act I. We will contine to analyse this today. By the end of today I hope everyone will have completed the assignment.
I am going to give you a piece of holiday work. We are going to analyse about 30 lines of text each person our edition - going through the whole of Act II and Scene 1 of Act III.
The analysis will be based on the following document.
You will analyse as follows:
Anton Andersson p. 57
Eric Andersson p. 58
Kalle Andersson p. 59
Efecan Ayan p. 60
Daniel Bergfors p. 61
Marina Bjelica p. 62
Anna Dahlberg p. 63
Linnea Ekström p. 64
Emma Enoksson p. 65
Simon Eriksson p.66
Hanna Ermesjö p.67
Yixuan Fu p.68
Jonathan Gravsjö p.69
Henrik Jensen p.70
Simon Johansson p.71
Erik Jonsson p.72
Martin Kaba p.73
Isak Karlsson p.74
Lukas Land p.75
Nathalie Lindqvist p.76
Catrine Ljungström p.77
Jonathan Lundberg p.78
Linda Nalén (25lines) p.79
Johan Nilsson (2 l. p.79)+p. 80
Hanna Pellegård p.81
Emma Skörd p.82
Jonathan Stefansson p.83
Astri Stikopers p.84
Jessika Svensson p.85
Filip Westgårds p.86
You are going to give a short presentation of your analysis on the first Friday lesson after the holiday.
Remember the document "Figurative language" ?
You need to use those terms when doing your analysis.
Today we can look at p. 39 in Act I as an example.
Finally a video from Spark Notes providing an excellent summary of the play
For those who missed out on the Cambridge Listening / Reading there will be an opportunity on Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. (15.00) to get it done.
Otherwise you will have to wait until the first Wednesday in 2014.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for this term and wish you a happy Christmas holiday. See you all in 2014!
The traditional Lucia celebrations are this morning at 8 a.m. followed by a class gathering.
This means that today's lesson is cancelled and that we are even more behind in the planning!
So, on Monday's lesson we will continue with the Shakespeare- now Act II- and anyone who missed the Reading from the CAE will have a chance to do it.
By Monday all the marking should be completed and I will distribute a mark sheet to each student.
Don't forget to mail me the answers to the qyestions for Act I!
Happy week-end!
Please send in your answers to the study questions for Act I by Friday!!!!
Welcome back after the week-end.We are now in a winter landscape and the sense of Christmas gets stronger.In the words of Irving Berlin's famous song;
"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas".
By the end of this week I will have completed all the marking of your work.
The gradeable pieces are:
Film Review
Translation
Formal English
Informal English
5 paragraph essay
Classic book talk
Cambridge Reading
Cambridge Listening
Oral presentation (grades after Christmas)
I will return all your hand-ins (with their grades by Friday).
Next weekend I will prepare a gradesheet for the other items as well- all except the oral presentations.
If you have missed a part of the Cambridge test you will have a chance to do it on Friday .
The marking has meant around 70-80 hours extra work for me.
If you are going to learn anythiong on this course then you must be consequent and do all your corrections.
I suggest spelling mistakes written correctly 5 times and grammar/ Swenglish etc. should be shown or sent (it happens automatically if you use shared google docs)
Today we are going to continue with our study of Romeo and Juliet.
First let us look at the source of the play.
One of the criticisms of Shakespeare was that he couldn't possibly have know about exotic places like Verona.
He didn't need to. He "borrowed" material.
Let us now examine the text.
Remember the study questions.
1. What is the setting for the play?
2. What scene of conflict opens the action of the play?
3. Which character tries to stop the fighting among the servants?
4. Which character is aggressive and eager to fight?
5. What warning does the Prince give to anyone who breaks the peace again?
6. Who has asked for Juliet's hand in marriage?
7. How old is Juliet?
8. In what state of mind is Romeo when we first see him in the play?
9. Explain how Romeo finds out about the Capulet ball?
10. How does Benvolio try to remedy Romeo's love sickness?
By the end of today's lesson you should be able to answer them all!
We can use this slideshare to help us.
Today we finally get to start studying "Romeo and Juliet".
While I am doing the last of the classic book talks I want you to begin working on the compendium That is on the Teacher's desk.
Here are some of the documents:
General
Words -
Some basic information about Shakespeare's language
Common Shakespeare terms- more general language information
Figurative language- some of the devices Shakespeare uses to enrichen his plays
What did he say? Test your own knowledge of Shakespeare's words having read through the information about his language
Punny guy! The classic Shakespeare device for providing verbal humour (N.B. This is a pdf file!)
Romeo and Juliet
This list of links provides more information than you will ever need
A taste of things to come- Act I Scene 1 (first part in original text and modern text).
Here are the study questions for Act I
1. What is the setting for the play?
2. What scene of conflict opens the action of the play?
3. Which character tries to stop the fighting among the servants?
4. Which character is aggressive and eager to fight?
5. What warning does the Prince give to anyone who breaks the peace again?
6. Who has asked for Juliet's hand in marriage?
7. How old is Juliet?
8. In what state of mind is Romeo when we first see him in the play?
9. Explain how Romeo finds out about the Capulet ball?
10. How does Benvolio try to remedy Romeo's love sickness?
We shall go through Act I on Monday. By then you should know the answers!
CAE
Welcome back after the week-end. I hope you enjoyed the big "mess" you attended!
Today we are going to do part of a Cambridge CAE Reading Test.
The test normally consists of 4 parts and takes 1 hour 15 minutes.
So today we will do parts 1 and 4 just to give you a feel for the level.
Those of you who did the listening- everyone passed, so that is encouraging.
Book Talks
Friday at 7.50-8.30 a.m. is the last opportunity to do the book talk. After that it will be an "F" grade.
You can also do it this Wednesday at 2 p.m. or on Skype at an agreed time.
Shakespeare
On Friday at 8.30 we finally start working on Shakespeare. We will begin with a brief introduction to Shakespeare, his times and language. Then we will look at the first Act of Romeo and Juliet.
I would like you to try and read it by Friday. Here is a handout to help you understand Shakespeare's complex use of language
