Brit Lit/Am Lit ESOL

4-27-20 through 4-30

Monday 4-27

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1
Key Vocab (Define, Picture, Sentence as usual)

-William Shakespeare
-Apparition
-impending
-conquest
-ensure
-apprehensive
-ramparts
-deceased

Go to this Website
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/section1/

Read the Summary and then go to this website:
https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/hamlet/page_2/
Read through the English translation of Scene 1 Act 1  (6 pages)

Then go to the link below and watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPC57q8nsQg&list=RDCMUCCbl73gRvfLKBCh-QgSP6ng&index=21

Then take the quiz in the bottom left corner and send me your score.

Tuesday 4-28

Hamlet Scene 1 Act 2
Key Vocab:
-rashly
-dispatch
-jovial
-rouse

Read the link below:
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/section2/

Feel Free to read through the translation if you want:
https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/hamlet/page_18/

Watch the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4WSWTqYZDw&list=RDCMUCCbl73gRvfLKBCh-QgSP6ng&index=28

Take the quiz at the bottom of the reading and tell me your score.

Wednesday 4-29
Act 1 Scene 3&4

Key Vocab
-vulgar
-stern
-rebuff
-laughingstock

Read the summary of Act 1 Scene 3&4
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/section3/

Feel free to read the translation if you want:
https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/hamlet/page_40/

Watch the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCAYcl053iE&list=RDCMUCCbl73gRvfLKBCh-QgSP6ng&index=11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXI4zEx8aA&list=RDCMUCCbl73gRvfLKBCh-QgSP6ng&index=11

Take the quiz at the bottom of the reading and tell me your score

Thursday 4-30

Hamlet Scene 1 Act 5 and Act 2 Scene 1

Key Vocab:
-appalled
-exhorts
-incestuous
-frantically
-explicit
-accosted

Read the link below:

https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/section4/

Feel free to read the translation if you want:
https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/hamlet/page_76/

Watch the two links below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdCU8F4_oM8&list=RDCMUCCbl73gRvfLKBCh-QgSP6ng&index=12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-hY0Is-79w&list=RDCMUCCbl73gRvfLKBCh-QgSP6ng&index=31

Take the quiz at the bottom of the reading and tell me our score.

American Lit 4/20-4/23

Edgar Allen Poe

Monday 4-20

Read Tell-Tale Heart

https://www.owleyes.org/text/tell-tale-heart/read/the-tell-tale-heart

Key Vocab Define as usual (take two days to finish these words)
hearken
conceived
cunning
vex
distinctness
muffle
conceal
suavity
distinct
hideous
homophone

Tuesday 4-21 Watch the Tell-Tale Heart
Google Tell Tale Heart film, then go down and find the black and white short film that is 28:01 from October 13 2017 by Tainlor.

After watching the film complete a 5-5-5 Venn Diagram between the reading and the short film.

Wenesday 4-22

Hop Frog (this story is kind of difficult so make sure you watch the video closely.
Watch first this time... go to Hop Frog film, go down and look for Hop Frog or The Eight Chained Orang-Outangs from August 7, 2012 by The Mudbrooker.

Key Vocab as usual...(take two days for these words)
Keenly
corpulent
predispose
motley
dwarf
consolation
prodigious
dexterity
masquerade
goblet
endeavor
tyrant
exquisite

Thursday 4-23

Go to this website:
https://poestories.com/read/hop-frog and read it and then write 1 paragraph as to the 5W's of what the story is about.

Brit Lit 4/20-4-23

Lord of the Flies

Monday 4-20
Read chapter 9 and take the quiz and send me your score
Watch chapter 9 of the movie.
Write 1 short paragraph of the 5W's from the chapter.
Do a venn diagraph chapter 9 from film to movie 5-5-5
Key Vocab...Define as usual in powerpoint.
-anxious
-languid
-dissuade
-plunge

Tuesday 4-21
Read Chapter 10 and take the quiz and send me your score
Watch chapter 10 of the movie.
Write 1 short paragraph of the 5W's from the chapter.
Do a venn diagraph chapter 10 from film to movie 5-5-5

Key Vocab...Define as usual in powerpoint.

-clutch

-virtually

-companion

Wednesday 4-22
Read Chapter 11 and take the quiz and send me your score
Watch chapter 11 of the movie.
Write 1 short paragraph of the 5W's from the chapter.
Do a venn diagraph chapter 11 from film to movie 5-5-5

Key Vocab...Define as usual in powerpoint.

-fury
-shrill
-brawl

Thursday 4-23

Read chapter 12 and take the quiz and send me your score

Watch chapter 12 of the movie.

Write 1 short paragraph of the 5W's from the chapter.

Do a venn diagraph chapter 12 from film to movie 5-5-5

Key Vocab...Define as usual 

-impale

-thicket

-fend

-composure 

American Lit ESOL

Monday 4-13 through Thursday 4-16

Monday, Tuesday Cask of Amontillado

Key Vocab for the week (continue to make powerpoints using (definition, sentence, and picture)
cask
amontillado
catacombs
jest
vaults
nitre
mason
plaster
preceed
Revenge is best served cold...what is the meaning of that statement
mad...I am not looking for the angry definition, but another one related to the story

Go here: https://www.poemuseum.org/the-cask-of-amontillado

Read the story on Monday until you get to where Fortunato asks Montressor if he is of the brotherhood, the Masons.

On Tuesday finish the story.

Wednesday go to these links and read the story again.
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section11/

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/section11/page/2/

Email me any questions that you may have.

Thursday
Write a response to these questions...1 Paragraph...Why might one argue that our narrator, Montressor, is insane?  List at least three reasons.

2nd Paragraph.....Why might one argue that our narrator is sane?  List at least 3 reasons.

3rd Paragraph....(Google: Apology call, Billy Madison)  Watch the short clip and explain to me how the guy on the couch who has a list on the wall is similar to the narrator from The Cask of Amontillado.

Brit Lit ESOL

Monday 4/13-Thursday 4/16

I hope Spring Break was safe and great for you.  

This week we will be working Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 of Lord of the Flies.

Vocabulary for this week (continue to make your powerpoints with definition, sentence, and picture.)

Monday-

Berate

plague 

disintegrate

improvisation 

Tuesday-

dread

whimsical 

grudgingly 

Wednesday-

disconsolate 

sloven 

exhilarate 

Thursday-

mesmerize 

apparition 

rapt

ominous

Monday 4-13

Re-watch and re-read chapters 1-4 to get back into the story.  At the bottom left of each page of chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 you will find short quizzes.  Take those quizzes until you get a 100% on all four.  

Chapter 5  Read the summary and the analysis and then take the quiz as well and then watch Chapter 5 and then write 1 paragraph responding to this question... In what way does Chapter 5 show a turning point in the story?  (hint:  Ralph starts to see live as more improvisation, rather than structure, and he starts to become frustrated with his hair)  Think about where they were, and now in just a few weeks how his outlook has changed.

Tuesday 4-14

Chapter 6  Read the summary and the analysis and take the quiz.  Tell me score on the first time. Watch chapter 6.  Write 1 paragraph on how fear of the dark, fear of the unknown, and fear itself plays an important role to the decisions the boys are making on the island.  (hint: does fear make us more civilized or savage?)

Wednesday 4-15

Chapter 7 Read the summary and the analysis and take the quiz.  Tell me your score on the first time. Watch chapter 7.  Write 1 paragraph on what you think the title means: Lord of the Flies.  (hint: symbolically think about the idea of a fly, and then to be lord of all of that, that are flies)  the answer to this paragraph you are to write is found in how Ralph sees himself, and the other boys as he climbs the mountain, how he sees the ocean, and how he feels after his hunt.

Thursday 4-16

Chapter 8  Read the summary and the analysis and take the quiz. Send me your score.  Watch Chapter 8.  Make a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting chapters 5-8, with a 7-7-7 between the reading and the movie?  Write 1 paragraph to me on your opinion responding to this question:  Who has the better philosophy on survival on the island....Jack, who is in favor of becoming more savage and hunting and providing immediately to the survival for the boys, or Ralph, who wants to maintain work, rules, and order in the hope that rescue will at some point arrive?