English 9 (Period 6) Assignments

Vocabulary list 5 Test on Wednesday

Romeo and Juliet Test on Thursday/Friday

On Wednesday you have to bring a book about the play, Romeo and Juliet.   To help you out, I have provided a link to a web site for all Los Angeles county libraries.  You may also access the link to Los Angeles libraries.

Click on the Word document below for a list of recommended books.

Finish taking notes on examples of fate in Romeo and Juliet.  The notes should be from acts 1 through 5.

Find a passage from anywhere in pages 616-657. Type it out and go on line to find a picture that you think illustrates or goes with that picture. (Get a picture that is NOT from Romeo and Juliet.) Paste the picture next to the passage.  Finally, explain ----in your own words---- why you chose that picture to go with the passage.

The link below should help.  It is the complete play divided into acts and scenes.  (Monday's assignment includes everything from Act 2 scene 3 to the end of Act 3)  All you have to do is cut and paste the lines next to your picture.  The link includes a modern vernacular version on the right hand side of the page in case you don't understand the lines.

Read Act 2 (pages 616 - 628).  Ready for a quiz.  Use the e-notes link below.

Romeo and Juliet Test  on all of Act 1, and Act 2 scenes 1 and 2.  That's pages 582-615.  You also should be able to respond to the following study questions:

2. How does R&J begin?
3. Dissect the Prince's speech. (3 parts)
4. What does Benvolio do?
5. What does Tybalt do?
6. What is wrong with Romeo at the beginning of the play?
7. What is an oxymoron?
7.5. What is a metaphor?
8. What is a simile?
9. What is a pun?
10. Are there any oxymora, similes, metaphors or puns in act 1?
11. What do Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and Juliet  think of marriage?

You need to know the play well enough to explain your answers.

From memory, recite the first 12 lines to the Prologue to Act 1. 

Remember, the whole prologue is due Wednesday and your first Romeo and Juliet test is Thursday/Friday.

Romeo and Juliet Test Monday on all of Act 1, and Act 2 scenes 1 and 2.  That's pages 582-615.  You also should be able to respond to the following study questions:

2. How does R&J begin?
3. Dissect the Prince's speech. (3 parts)
4. What does Benvolio do?
5. What does Tybalt do?
6. What is wrong with Romeo at the beginning of the play?
7. What is an oxymoron?
7.5. What is a metaphor?
8. What is a simile?
9. What is a pun?
10. Are there any oxymora, similes, metaphors or puns in act 1?
11. What do Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and Juliet  think of marriage?

You need to know the play well enough to explain your answers.

Find a passage from anywhere in pages 590-605. Type it out and go on line to find a picture that you think illustrates or goes with that picture. (Get a picture that is NOT from Romeo and Juliet.) Paste the picture next to the passage.  Finally, explain ----in your own words---- why you chose that picture to go with the passage.

The link below should help.  It is the complete play divided into acts and scenes.  (Monday's assignment is from Act I, Scenes 2,3,4,5)  All you have to do is cut and paste the lines next to your picture.  The link includes a modern vernacular version on the right hand side of the page in case you don't understand the lines.

Vocabulary Test :Shakespeare's English 1 - 27

Memorize the first 8 lines of the Prologue to Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet.

Find a passage from anywhere in pages 582 - 593.  Type it out and go on line to find a picture that you think illustrates or goes with that picture. (Get a picture that is NOT from Romeo and Juliet.) Paste the picture next to the passage.  Finally, explain ----in your own words---- why you chose that picture to go with the passage.

For example:

Lady Capulet.    Marry, that "marry" is the very theme I came to talk of. Tell me daughter Juliet.  How stands your dispositions to be married?

Juliet.               It is an honor that I dream not of.

Lady Capulet.    Well think of marriage now. Younger than you,  here in Verona, ladies of esteem, are made already mothers.  By my count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid.  Thus then in brief: The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.... What say you?  Can you love the gentleman?

In this picture a mother is having a serious talk with her teenage daughter.  Maybe like Lady Capulet, this mother is talking to her daughter about marriage.  I chose this picture because Juliet is still thirteen.  Her mother says that "I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid."  This means that she was just thirteen or fourteen when she had Juliet.  That's why I chose a picture of a twenty-seven year old mother.  The teenager is being respectful and is listening to her mom much the same way Juliet listens to her mother.

Memorize the first 4 lines of the prologue to act 1.  Click the  link below for the complete text to the play, with explanation and defined words.  Use it; it's a really helpful website.

Read: Romeo and Juliet pages 590-593.  I will ask you questions about Capulet's thoughts about marriage for Juliet.

Read pages 585-590 in your big lit book.  (Romeo and Juliet lines 76-233).  I will ask you questions about the Prince and what he is saying to the people of Verona.  I will ask you about Romeo's parents and Romeo's state of mind.

Read pages 574 to 576 in your big literature book.  Take notes.   Write down the words that you are not sure of and write their definitions.   If  you forgot you book you may read the following links titled "Elizabethan England" and "The Globe Theatre."  Bring all your notes and defined words to class.  You will see the two links below.

Big mythology test Wednesday, Feb. 16 on the following:

Greek and Roman names of gods and goddesses and their positions. 
Definitions of myth and legend.
The story of Phaethon and Apollo ("How Deserts Were Formed") p. 16
The story of Ceres, Proserpine, and Pluto ("Why We Have Seasons") p.19
The story of Pandora ("Why Troubles Came") p.20
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice on p. 41
The story of Pygmalion and Galatea on p. 42
The story of Cupid and Psyche on p. 45
The story of Arachne on p. 47
The story of Daphne on p. 49
The separation, initiation, and return of Perseus, Theseus, Hercules, and Odysseus
Basic characters and information from the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer and the oral tradition of storytelling.

You should be preparing for Wednesday's test.

Read the story of Jason on pages 34-37

Students who were absent Friday may make-up the Hercules homework Tuesday morning before per.1.  The make-up for the myth test is Tuesday at lunch.

Read Hercules in your myth book on pages 26-32.  Bring a picture that illustrates one of Hercules' labors.  The picture may be from the internet, a book, or your own artistic talents.  It should be large enough to show the whole class.  You need to be ready to explain the labor that your picture represents.

Know the positions, Greek and Roman names for the mythological gods on your study sheet.  Spelling counts.

Bring your flash cards.

Read pages 23-26 in your myth book:  The Hero in Myth and Perseus