English 9H:
Silent reading.
Continue with intro to Dickens and his lit we began on Thurs.
Create Character and Vocab sheets for portfolios. These are to be added to on an ongoing basis as we read through the novella together.
Begin reading A Christmas Carol (ACC) p. 1-5.
English 11 (Pd 2 & 4):
Mark grammar worksheets from last week together as a class.
Class time provided to read Ch 3 in TJP; if students didn’t finish in class, it must be read before class on Weds.
English 12:
Grammar sheet (if you missed today’s class, you’ll need to make this up next day).
Read Act II, sc i-ii in Othello.
Note taking: quoting and citing Shakespeare:
- Always try to be as specific as possible in your references to the play you are arguing about. When appropriate, quote directly from the play to support your point.
The quotation itself is identified by act, scene, and line, not by page number. Do not quote huge passages; these take up too much space in a short essay and are better summarized.
EXAMPLE: Hamlet contemplates the implications of suicide in the “to or not to be” soliloquy (3.1.56-87).
2) If the quotation is more than one line long, but less than four, and it is in verse, then you must show the line divisions.
Here’s an example of how this is done in an essay:
When Talbot enters in the next scene, dying from a wound, his thoughts are on John, from whom he became separated in the battle: “Into the clustering battle of the French, / And in that sea of blood my boy did drench / His overmounting spirit; and there died” (4.7.13-15).
3) A quotation that is four lines or longer should be offset. Offset quotations do not use quotation marks.
EXAMPLE:
Richard’s reaction to the desertion of his supporters is melodramatic:
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings:
How some have been depos’d, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill’d,
All murdered— (3.2.155-60)