10/4 – 1. Please place your TFA books in a neat pile on Ms. Devlin’s desk and write a check mark next to your name. 2. Drop your rough draft process packets in the Period 4 “In Box” (silver tray next to my desk).

Rough Draft Process Packets should be put together in the following order (from top to bottom):

Rough Draft

Introduction Station Work

Thesis Statements

Thesis Statement Peer Workshop

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. TFA Final Project Grades2. Vocabulary 3 Quiz – Retake

(Wednesday after or before school)3. Vocabulary Study & Extra Credit

opportunity.4. Clean out TFA unit materials (do not

throw out graded work or TFA readings)

FREE-WRITE ABOUT JEALOUSY (15 MINUTES):

- What is jealousy? (definition) - How do people show jealousy (their

words and/or actions)? - What are its causes? (why do people

get jealous?) - What are its effects? (what happens

when people get jealous?) - How has it affected you or people in

your life?

Role Playing

Today we are going to do some acting. I am going to need six student actors. If you want to participate quietly raise your hand.

GOALS

To understand the purpose of role-playing To use our role-playing today to help us

prepare for some of the themes in Othello To understand important background

information about Shakespeare and the play in order to help us prepare to study it

ROLE-PLAYING (5 minutes prep) Role-Play can help us “get into the mindset”

of a situation we are looking at and see different outcomes

Our Role-Play today will deal with jealousy and deceit Six volunteers (3 groups of 2) You will each get a slip of paper with a role on it Groups will come up and perform a scene using

the prompts given

All three scenes deal with the state of fidelity between two people involved in a relationship.

AUDIENCE –

What do you notice? What is going on?

What didn’t you see (what can we learn from what was omitted or absent)?

Overall thoughts…?

PROMPT 1

Two men are talking The “boyfriend” has a girlfriend The “friend” tries to plant seeds of doubt in

the boyfriend about the girlfriend’s loyalty without actually suggesting she’s cheating

PROMPT 2

Two men are talking The friend tries to convince the boyfriend

that his girlfriend is interested in another man

PROMPT 3

A confrontation between the boyfriend and his girlfriend

He believes she is unfaithful but he’s angry and won’t say why

She is innocent and doesn’t understand his anger

DEBRIEF

What did we notice? What didn’t we see (what can we learn from

what was omitted or absent)? Overall thoughts…?

KWL

Fill in the Want to Know parts of your KWL with any information about William Shakespeare or the play Othello!

WANT TO KNOW: William Shakespeare

WANT TO KNOW: Othello

UNIT THROUGHLINES Insider/Outsider

What does it mean to be an insider? An outsider? Who is an insider or an outsider in this Venetian culture?

BetrayalWhere do we see betrayal in the play?

How does it affect the events and the characters?

JealousyWhich characters are jealous and why?

What causes it? What does it lead people to do? Is it possible to avoid it?

LEARNED

• April 23, 1564 – April 23, 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England• married Anne Hathaway and had kids• moved to London – became actor & playwright (Globe Theatre)• wrote ~ 38 plays, 154 sonnets, other poems tragedies (end in death), comedies (end in marriage), romances (end ambiguously – written later in life), “lost plays,” histories (about lineage of current queen Elizabeth I – patron of Shakespeare – painted her ancestral family in positive light)• all ages/classes loved theatre – poor peasants couldn’t read – it was like their “soap operas” or TV• many wealthy businessmen & city leaders didn’t like theatre – took time away from peasants working & lost them money, helped to spread disease, was an “immoral” career (only men could act, no women)• plays performed in day (no electricity), few sets/scenery (had to pretend, “paint background” with words), costumes donated from rich• company would learn a whole play in a week, perform it, then learn another (not only Shakespeare’s plays but other playwrights as well, such as Ben Johnson and Christopher Marlowe)• Shakespeare wrote in Modern English (our English), only used poetic words, phrases, and syntax (order of words) – no one really talked like that – also, he invented hundreds of new words

LEARNED - TRAGEDY

• Definition – In the simplest sense of the term, a tragedy is the story of a noble protagonist who suffers.•Characteristics of a Tragedy~ deals with human responsibility and hope~ shows a conflict between freedom and necessity~ uses fate as an excuse for human errors and shortcomings~ evokes pity and fear in the audience~ provides a release or relief or purging of these emotions (catharsis) for the audience at the end.

Characteristics of the Tragic Hero1. Exemplifies the good and bad in his society; he is a representative figure2. Is shown at the height of his prosperity and power3. Falls by some flaw (hamartia) in his own character, or by an error in judgment4. Can be tempted into tragic pride (hubris), feeling that he is beyond mortal limitations5. Experiences a reversal of fortune (peripeteia)6. Becomes a scapegoat, blamed by his society for the sins they committed7. Is the cause of his own punishment8. Undergoes a recognitions scene in which he achieves self-knowledge9. Takes upon himself the burden of guilt and shame10. Acquires a grandeur through his futile struggle with fate11. Contributes by his suffering to a resolution of the initial problem.

TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK

Getting Started Question #6 Write an extensive journal response on your

perception of issues related to the following: belonging, power, privilege, and identity.

(Follow the freewriting guidelines)

TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK

Getting Started Question #6 Write an extensive journal response on your

perception of issues related to the following: belonging, power, privilege, and identity.

(Follow the freewriting guidelines)