Write and exaggerated imaginary love letter to someone or something. Your goal is to be as corny and over the top as possible. We will be reading these out tomorrow. (1/2 page)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday April 21st Homework: Love Letter
Today we read the famous balcony scene! Your homework is for you love-birds to complete the following task:
Friday April 16th Homework: Are they really in LOVE?
Answer the following question. Your answer must be 1/2 page long.
Romeo and Juliet just met for the first time and think they are in love. Are they really in love, or are they just confused kids who don't know what love is? Explain.
Thursday April 15th Homework: Queen Mab
Today we read the famous Queen Mab speech in Romeo and Juliet. You must read the following speech and answer the three questions that follow:
Mercutio:
"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men’s noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider’s web,
The collars of the moonshine’s watery beams,
Her whip of cricket’s bone; the lash of film;
Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Prick’d from the lazy finger of a maid:
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or an old grub,
Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;
O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on court’sies straight,
O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees,
O’er ladies ‘ lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail
Tickling a parson’s nose as a’ lies asleep,
Then dreams, he of another benefice:
Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plaits the manes of horses in the night,
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she—"
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men’s noses as they lie asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider’s web,
The collars of the moonshine’s watery beams,
Her whip of cricket’s bone; the lash of film;
Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Prick’d from the lazy finger of a maid:
Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut
Made by the joiner squirrel or an old grub,
Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
And in this state she gallops night by night
Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love;
O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on court’sies straight,
O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees,
O’er ladies ‘ lips, who straight on kisses dream,
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,
Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:
Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose,
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;
And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail
Tickling a parson’s nose as a’ lies asleep,
Then dreams, he of another benefice:
Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again. This is that very Mab
That plaits the manes of horses in the night,
And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,
Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:
This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,
That presses them and learns them first to bear,
Making them women of good carriage:
This is she—"
Questions:
1. After reading the speech, tell me everything you know about Queen Mab?
2. How does Queen Mab affect people? Explain.
3. Why do you think people have bad dreams? Do you think the dreams we have can predict the future?
Wednesday April 14th Homework: Active Reading Questions
Today we read with partners and completed an Active Reading Worksheet. You can find the worksheet on the 'Worksheet and Discussion' Website found on the left-hand side of the page.
Monday April 12th Homework: Act 1 Questions
You must answer the following Romeo and Juliet Questions for Act 1:
O’Hara/Knoll Homework: Act 1 Scene 1 & 2 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. Benvolio and Montague describe the way Romeo has been acting. What do they have
to say about him?
7. Why is Romeo so sad?
8. What is Benvolio’s advice to Romeo?
9. What does Paris ask about Capulet?
10. What is Capulet’s first answer?
Friday April 9th Homework: Neighborhood Disagreements
Answer the following journal question. Answer must be 1/2 page.
Explain how gang or neighborhood disagreements affect the city of Philadelphia.
Thursday, April 8th Homework: Shakespeare Stage
Today we did a worksheet on Shakespeare's stage and set-design. You need to come in and get a handout and a worksheet for this assignment. Because you need a reading handout, this sheet will not be available to download and print from home. PLEASE COME GET THIS!
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