Due on Friday:
1. MySpace Project (webpage & expository essay)
2. "Show & Tell": Bring in something for show and tell. Also be sure to have your personal essays for college (whatever you have so far!)
In class activity:
1. Collection of MySpace projects.
2. Show & Tell activity to increase understanding of personal essays for college
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
11/12 & 11/13 Work
Reminder: MySpace Project due Friday, 11/14. Details on blog.
Agenda:
1. Read pgs. 239-247, Act II Death of a Salesman
2. Choose one option to represent the scene between Willy and Howard:
*Option 1: Perform the scene. ACT don't read!
*Option 2: Create a visual representation of the scene.
*Option 3: Create a graphic organizer (timeline, plot diagram, etc)
**Students may work individually or as a group.
Agenda:
1. Read pgs. 239-247, Act II Death of a Salesman
2. Choose one option to represent the scene between Willy and Howard:
*Option 1: Perform the scene. ACT don't read!
*Option 2: Create a visual representation of the scene.
*Option 3: Create a graphic organizer (timeline, plot diagram, etc)
**Students may work individually or as a group.
Monday, November 10, 2008
MySpace Project Details
MySpace Page Project
Learning Objective: Students will be able to create a MySpace page for characters in classic play.
Task: Students will find textual evidence that supports characterization of a character in the play we’re studying. Students will then use that textual evidence to create a fake MySpace page that illustrates the traits of the character. Lastly, students will write an expository piece in which they defend their MySpace page choices with evidence from the text. (See steps below.)
Understanding: Literature reflects the human experience. Some stories are timeless.
Know: How to use textual evidence to define character traits AND to use this information to create a character profile.
Do: Use textual evidence to create a MySpace page for a character in classic play.
Rubrics:
MySpace Page 3 2 1 0
Effort, Care, Neatness, & Creativity
Accuracy of Character Traits
Fulfillment of Task
Regents Writing Rubric:
6 5 4 3 2 1
Meaning Insightful connections between the text and the task Clear and explicit connections between text and task Implicit connection Superficial connections Few or unclear connections Allusions to text, no direct connections
Development -develop ideas clearly and fully, making effective use of a wide range of relevant and specific details from the text -develop ideas clearly and consistently. Using relevant and specific details from the text -develop ideas inconsistently, using relevant details from the text -develop ideas simply, using some details from the text are largely undeveloped, hinting at ideas that are sketchy, vague, irrelevant, or repetitive are minimal, with no evidence of development
Organization maintain a clear and appropriate focus
-exhibit a logical and coherent structure through effective use of appropriate devices and transitions -maintain a clear and appropriate focus
-exhibit a logical sequence of ideas through the use of appropriate devices and transitions maintain a clear and appropriate focus
-exhibit a rudimentary structure but may include some inconsistencies or irrelevancies establish, but fail to maintain, an appropriate focus
-exhibit uneven organization lack an appropriate focus, but suggest some organization show no focus or organization
Language Use are stylistically sophisticated, using original and precise language with a notable sense of voice and awareness of audience and purpose
-vary structure and length of sentences for effect use language that is fluent and engaging, with some awareness of audience and purpose
-show consistent use of sentences that are varied in length and structure use appropriate language, with some awareness of audience and purpose
-occasionally vary length and structure of sentences rely on language from the text and basic vocabulary
-rely on sentences that are unvaried in length and structure use language that is imprecise or unsuitable for the audience or purpose
-rely on sentences that lack variety and may be constructed incorrectly are minimal
-use language that is incoherent or inappropriate
-violate basic rules of sentence structure
Conventions demonstrate control of the conventions demonstrate control of the conventions, with very few minor errors that have no effect on comprehension demonstrate partial control, exhibiting some sentence-level errors that do not hinder comprehension demonstrate partial control, exhibiting errors that occasionally hinder comprehension demonstrate a lack of control, exhibiting many errors that make comprehension difficult are minimal
-may be illegible or not recognizable as English
Steps:
1. Students will choose a character in the play.
2. Students will use a fiction reading strategy to determine the personality and traits of this character. (Hypothesis: Students will make a guess about the character’s personality. For example, “I think Tybalt is a violent character.”)
3. Students will search for and record all evidence from the text that supports their hypothesis. (For example, “I think Tybalt is a violent character. In Act I, Scene 2, line 15, Shakespeare writes that Tybalt says ‘I hate the word peace’.) Students should collect as much evidence as possible! The more evidence, the stronger the argument!
4. Based on the information gathered from the text, students will develop a concrete thesis. (For example, “Tybalt is a violent character.”)
5. Based on the thesis and the textual evidence, students will think creatively to make a fake MySpace page. The details to be included are found on the back of this sheet.
6. Next, students will defend their MySpace page using their textual evidence. (For example, I made Tybalt’s MySpace page background be devil horns because he says he ‘loves hell’ (Act I, Scene 3, Line 15). Also, I created Tybalt’s screenname “H8Montagues” because it is clear in the play that Tybalt hates the Montagues. This is seen in Act I, Scene 2, where Tybalt says “I hate thee and all Montagues”)
7. Lastly, students will self-assess their work based on the rubric above.
Minimum required elements of MySpace Page:
-Character’s Screenname
-About Me:
-Who I’d Like to Meet:
-General:
-Music:
-Movies:
-Television:
-Books:
-Heroes:
-Comments by at least one “friend”
Learning Objective: Students will be able to create a MySpace page for characters in classic play.
Task: Students will find textual evidence that supports characterization of a character in the play we’re studying. Students will then use that textual evidence to create a fake MySpace page that illustrates the traits of the character. Lastly, students will write an expository piece in which they defend their MySpace page choices with evidence from the text. (See steps below.)
Understanding: Literature reflects the human experience. Some stories are timeless.
Know: How to use textual evidence to define character traits AND to use this information to create a character profile.
Do: Use textual evidence to create a MySpace page for a character in classic play.
Rubrics:
MySpace Page 3 2 1 0
Effort, Care, Neatness, & Creativity
Accuracy of Character Traits
Fulfillment of Task
Regents Writing Rubric:
6 5 4 3 2 1
Meaning Insightful connections between the text and the task Clear and explicit connections between text and task Implicit connection Superficial connections Few or unclear connections Allusions to text, no direct connections
Development -develop ideas clearly and fully, making effective use of a wide range of relevant and specific details from the text -develop ideas clearly and consistently. Using relevant and specific details from the text -develop ideas inconsistently, using relevant details from the text -develop ideas simply, using some details from the text are largely undeveloped, hinting at ideas that are sketchy, vague, irrelevant, or repetitive are minimal, with no evidence of development
Organization maintain a clear and appropriate focus
-exhibit a logical and coherent structure through effective use of appropriate devices and transitions -maintain a clear and appropriate focus
-exhibit a logical sequence of ideas through the use of appropriate devices and transitions maintain a clear and appropriate focus
-exhibit a rudimentary structure but may include some inconsistencies or irrelevancies establish, but fail to maintain, an appropriate focus
-exhibit uneven organization lack an appropriate focus, but suggest some organization show no focus or organization
Language Use are stylistically sophisticated, using original and precise language with a notable sense of voice and awareness of audience and purpose
-vary structure and length of sentences for effect use language that is fluent and engaging, with some awareness of audience and purpose
-show consistent use of sentences that are varied in length and structure use appropriate language, with some awareness of audience and purpose
-occasionally vary length and structure of sentences rely on language from the text and basic vocabulary
-rely on sentences that are unvaried in length and structure use language that is imprecise or unsuitable for the audience or purpose
-rely on sentences that lack variety and may be constructed incorrectly are minimal
-use language that is incoherent or inappropriate
-violate basic rules of sentence structure
Conventions demonstrate control of the conventions demonstrate control of the conventions, with very few minor errors that have no effect on comprehension demonstrate partial control, exhibiting some sentence-level errors that do not hinder comprehension demonstrate partial control, exhibiting errors that occasionally hinder comprehension demonstrate a lack of control, exhibiting many errors that make comprehension difficult are minimal
-may be illegible or not recognizable as English
Steps:
1. Students will choose a character in the play.
2. Students will use a fiction reading strategy to determine the personality and traits of this character. (Hypothesis: Students will make a guess about the character’s personality. For example, “I think Tybalt is a violent character.”)
3. Students will search for and record all evidence from the text that supports their hypothesis. (For example, “I think Tybalt is a violent character. In Act I, Scene 2, line 15, Shakespeare writes that Tybalt says ‘I hate the word peace’.) Students should collect as much evidence as possible! The more evidence, the stronger the argument!
4. Based on the information gathered from the text, students will develop a concrete thesis. (For example, “Tybalt is a violent character.”)
5. Based on the thesis and the textual evidence, students will think creatively to make a fake MySpace page. The details to be included are found on the back of this sheet.
6. Next, students will defend their MySpace page using their textual evidence. (For example, I made Tybalt’s MySpace page background be devil horns because he says he ‘loves hell’ (Act I, Scene 3, Line 15). Also, I created Tybalt’s screenname “H8Montagues” because it is clear in the play that Tybalt hates the Montagues. This is seen in Act I, Scene 2, where Tybalt says “I hate thee and all Montagues”)
7. Lastly, students will self-assess their work based on the rubric above.
Minimum required elements of MySpace Page:
-Character’s Screenname
-About Me:
-Who I’d Like to Meet:
-General:
-Music:
-Movies:
-Television:
-Books:
-Heroes:
-Comments by at least one “friend”
MySpace Project
http://www.myspace.com/msdalyela
Above is the URL for Ms. Daly's ELA MySpace page. You can add me as a friend to submit your MySpace page. BE SURE TO WRITE YOU REAL NAME ON THE PAGE OR POST! As the MySpace page is modeled after a character in Romeo & Juliet, I will not be able to give you credit unless you provide your real name!
You other option for handing in this project is to post the URL to your page on this blog
Lastly, you can print the page and/or draw the layout of the page and turn it in on Friday, November 14th.
Regardless of your choice, ALL PROJECTS MUST BE TURNED IN BY 3:00 PM on NOVEMBER 14th!
Above is the URL for Ms. Daly's ELA MySpace page. You can add me as a friend to submit your MySpace page. BE SURE TO WRITE YOU REAL NAME ON THE PAGE OR POST! As the MySpace page is modeled after a character in Romeo & Juliet, I will not be able to give you credit unless you provide your real name!
You other option for handing in this project is to post the URL to your page on this blog
Lastly, you can print the page and/or draw the layout of the page and turn it in on Friday, November 14th.
Regardless of your choice, ALL PROJECTS MUST BE TURNED IN BY 3:00 PM on NOVEMBER 14th!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Eudora Welty's "Death of a Traveling Salesman"
http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/2welty.pdf
Monday, October 27, 2008
Well-Read People Laugh More
Check out all of the references in modern day television to Death of a Salesman. Read the play, get more jokes! :)
Source: Wikipedia
***Death of a Salesman is alluded to in the Seinfeld episode "The Subway". Jerry Seinfeld reminds George Costanza not to whistle in the elevator (the same advice Willy gives Biff). Jerry then continued to call George "Biff" (This can also be seen in "The Boyfriend, Part 1" when Jerry mocks George's idea of becoming a buff, saying, "So Biff wants to be a buff."). Furthermore in "The Boyfriend, Part 2" George's date Carrie refers to him as Biff Loman; and at the end of the episode Jerry says to George, "So Biff, what's next?"
****In the Seinfeld episode "The Summer of George", after accidentally winning a Tony Award, Cosmo Kramer tells his new friends of a discussion with "Arty" that he should have called his play Life of a Salesman. Life of a Salesman is also the name of a song by the band Yellowcard, narrated by a boy looking up to his father
In the movie Soapdish, Kevin Kline's character, a formerly-famous soap actor, stoops to playing Death of a Salesman to near-deaf senior citizens in a dinner theater.
****In an episode of Family Guy, Meg Griffin plays the part of Linda, reciting the line "Willy Loman never made a lot of money, his name was never in the paper, but attention must be paid to such a person." Then a hitman, playing the role of Happy Loman, recites the following lines before attempting to assassinate Lois Griffin, the wife of the show's protagonist.
****During an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Richard Lewis asks Larry David "Who are you, Willy Loman?", whilst Larry is selling cars at a car dealership. Larry David was the executive producer of Seinfeld, which also includes character references
****In the movie American Beauty, Carolyn Burnham (Annette Benning) tells Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) that "'the Lomans just moved out next door" - alluding to the family in Death of a Salesman.
****In "Burns, Baby Burns", the fourth episode of The Simpsons' eighth season, Mr Burns opens a door to a theatre in his home, an actor is saying "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit." --- Willy Loman, Act 2, Death of a Salesman
****In another episode of The Simpsons Goo Goo Gai Pan, the family travels to China and sees a Chinese interpretation of the play, which includes dragons and Chinese opera. After the curtain closes, Homer says that he finally understands the play.
****In Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, John Wilkes Booth uses Linda's line, "Attention must be paid..." while talking to the suicidal Lee Harvey Oswald. Samuel Byck also uses Willy's frequent exclamation of "The woods are burning!" in one of his monologues.
****In an episode of Roseanne, a traveling salesman dies in the Connor's kitchen and Dan refers to the corpse as "Willy Loman."
****In the 1997 film Orgazmo, Mormon missionary Joe Young (Trey Parker) gets a job as a porn star and lies about it to his fiancée Lisa (Robyn Lynne Raab) by saying that he is starring as Biff in a Hollywood remake of Death of a Salesman. Later on in the film, Young continues the lie and claims that a sequel to Death of a Salesman is being made and that he will be playing Biff's evil twin brother.
****In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode 'Restless' Willow dreams that she and her friends are in a production of Death of a Salesman, although it appears as a parody - Riley is dressed as a cowboy and says : "I'm lookin' for a man! A sales man!"
****In the Jimmy Neutron episode Birth of a Salesman, Jimmy Neutron enters a candy bar selling competition in which he battles his archrival, Cindy Vortex, so that he, Carl, and Sheen can get tickets to Retroworld. After Goddard recommends creating a smarter salesman in order to outsell Cindy, Jimmy creates a sales robot which he calles the Willy Loman 3000.
****In the Arthur episode Buster's Sweet Success, Buster fails at selling chocolate and says "What happened to me, Mom? I used to be someone in this town. I was well liked!"
Source: Wikipedia
***Death of a Salesman is alluded to in the Seinfeld episode "The Subway". Jerry Seinfeld reminds George Costanza not to whistle in the elevator (the same advice Willy gives Biff). Jerry then continued to call George "Biff" (This can also be seen in "The Boyfriend, Part 1" when Jerry mocks George's idea of becoming a buff, saying, "So Biff wants to be a buff."). Furthermore in "The Boyfriend, Part 2" George's date Carrie refers to him as Biff Loman; and at the end of the episode Jerry says to George, "So Biff, what's next?"
****In the Seinfeld episode "The Summer of George", after accidentally winning a Tony Award, Cosmo Kramer tells his new friends of a discussion with "Arty" that he should have called his play Life of a Salesman. Life of a Salesman is also the name of a song by the band Yellowcard, narrated by a boy looking up to his father
In the movie Soapdish, Kevin Kline's character, a formerly-famous soap actor, stoops to playing Death of a Salesman to near-deaf senior citizens in a dinner theater.
****In an episode of Family Guy, Meg Griffin plays the part of Linda, reciting the line "Willy Loman never made a lot of money, his name was never in the paper, but attention must be paid to such a person." Then a hitman, playing the role of Happy Loman, recites the following lines before attempting to assassinate Lois Griffin, the wife of the show's protagonist.
****During an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Richard Lewis asks Larry David "Who are you, Willy Loman?", whilst Larry is selling cars at a car dealership. Larry David was the executive producer of Seinfeld, which also includes character references
****In the movie American Beauty, Carolyn Burnham (Annette Benning) tells Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) that "'the Lomans just moved out next door" - alluding to the family in Death of a Salesman.
****In "Burns, Baby Burns", the fourth episode of The Simpsons' eighth season, Mr Burns opens a door to a theatre in his home, an actor is saying "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit." --- Willy Loman, Act 2, Death of a Salesman
****In another episode of The Simpsons Goo Goo Gai Pan, the family travels to China and sees a Chinese interpretation of the play, which includes dragons and Chinese opera. After the curtain closes, Homer says that he finally understands the play.
****In Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, John Wilkes Booth uses Linda's line, "Attention must be paid..." while talking to the suicidal Lee Harvey Oswald. Samuel Byck also uses Willy's frequent exclamation of "The woods are burning!" in one of his monologues.
****In an episode of Roseanne, a traveling salesman dies in the Connor's kitchen and Dan refers to the corpse as "Willy Loman."
****In the 1997 film Orgazmo, Mormon missionary Joe Young (Trey Parker) gets a job as a porn star and lies about it to his fiancée Lisa (Robyn Lynne Raab) by saying that he is starring as Biff in a Hollywood remake of Death of a Salesman. Later on in the film, Young continues the lie and claims that a sequel to Death of a Salesman is being made and that he will be playing Biff's evil twin brother.
****In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode 'Restless' Willow dreams that she and her friends are in a production of Death of a Salesman, although it appears as a parody - Riley is dressed as a cowboy and says : "I'm lookin' for a man! A sales man!"
****In the Jimmy Neutron episode Birth of a Salesman, Jimmy Neutron enters a candy bar selling competition in which he battles his archrival, Cindy Vortex, so that he, Carl, and Sheen can get tickets to Retroworld. After Goddard recommends creating a smarter salesman in order to outsell Cindy, Jimmy creates a sales robot which he calles the Willy Loman 3000.
****In the Arthur episode Buster's Sweet Success, Buster fails at selling chocolate and says "What happened to me, Mom? I used to be someone in this town. I was well liked!"
Friday, October 17, 2008
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Please share your responses to this poem by leaving a comment on this post!
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