Nov. 1, 2018

Hello! Here's what we're up to today.

New Media 10

1. Checking in.
2. Teacher-led discussion

3. Themes and literary terms of the play

Themes:

- Stars
- Fate
- Masculinity
- Cycles of violence

Literary terms:

- Aside - a brief monologue, where the audience sees inside the mind of the character
- Audience - those who watch the performance; they contribute to the performance
- Drama - a text meant to be performed.
- Comedy - traditionally, a play that ends in marriage
- Tragedy - traditionally, a play that ends in death
- Monologue / Soliloquy - when the character speaks alone, often to the audience, for an extended period of time.
- Character foil - a character meant to be the opposite of another character, for juxtaposition
- Juxtaposition - two contrasting elements set near each other to highlight a specific feature
- Dramatic irony - when the audience is aware of something the character isn't.
- Pun - a play on words, where the term can have two or more meanings
- Oxymoron - two words put together that are contradictory
- Sonnet - a fourteen line poem, with a rigid rhyme scheme, using iambic pentameter
- Iambic pentameter - ten beats a line, sounds like a heartbeat. Unstressed syllable, followed by stressed (times five)

4. Two film versions of the start (1968 version and 1996 version), and your thoughts
5. Next class, read 1.2 and 1.3

Lit 10

1. Checking in.
2. Teacher-led discussion

3. Themes and literary terms of the play

Themes:

- Stars
- Fate
- Masculinity
- Cycles of violence

Literary terms:

- Aside - a brief monologue, where the audience sees inside the mind of the character
- Audience - those who watch the performance; they contribute to the performance
- Drama - a text meant to be performed.
- Comedy - traditionally, a play that ends in marriage
- Tragedy - traditionally, a play that ends in death
- Monologue / Soliloquy - when the character speaks alone, often to the audience, for an extended period of time.
- Character foil - a character meant to be the opposite of another character, for juxtaposition
- Juxtaposition - two contrasting elements set near each other to highlight a specific feature
- Dramatic irony - when the audience is aware of something the character isn't.
- Pun - a play on words, where the term can have two or more meanings
- Oxymoron - two words put together that are contradictory
- Sonnet - a fourteen line poem, with a rigid rhyme scheme, using iambic pentameter
- Iambic pentameter - ten beats a line, sounds like a heartbeat. Unstressed syllable, followed by stressed (times five)

4. Acting out the play!
5. Next class, read 1.2 and 1.3

English 12

1. Checking in.
2. Teacher-led discussion

3. Themes and literary terms of the play

Themes:

- Ambition
- Blood
- Clothes
- Inversion

Literary terms:

- Aside - a brief monologue, where the audience sees inside the mind of the character
- Audience - those who watch the performance; they contribute to the performance
- Drama - a text meant to be performed.
- Comedy - traditionally, a play that ends in marriage
- Tragedy - traditionally, a play that ends in death
- Monologue / Soliloquy - when the character speaks alone, often to the audience, for an extended period of time.
- Character foil - a character meant to be the opposite of another character, for juxtaposition
- Juxtaposition - two contrasting elements set near each other to highlight a specific feature
- Dramatic irony - when the audience is aware of something the character isn't.
- Pun - a play on words, where the term can have two or more meanings (throw away my shot)
- Paradox - an impossible situation (I'm lying right now)
- Motif - A recurring, dominant idea in a piece of art
- Iambic pentameter - ten beats a line, sounds like a heartbeat. Unstressed syllable, followed by stressed (times five)

4. Let's act it out!
5. Video version
6. Next class, read 1.4 and 1.5