II 6th6wks wk1

4/12 Tuesday

• Obj: Myth/Drama• HW: • Warm-up: Review the Thor story and write a

17 word summary of it. Yes, it needs to be exactly 17 words

Medieval Presentations

• Present and grade

Thor Drama

• Discuss entertainment value of drama• Discuss key elements• Make sample plan• In groups– Make your own marketing plan (using your chart)– Plan a quick “Trailer” for your modern-day Thor

drama.

ChartElement How can you make it entertaining? Who will perform

it?

4/14 Thursday

• Obj: Drama• HW: Finish drama vocabulary paragraph/story

(due Monday)Warm-up: 1.Where do you think the name “Thursday”

come from?2.Write down all that you know about the Icarus

myth.

In groups…

• Share what you observe in the following painting.

• Could it be allegorical?• How?

Write a response to what you Write a response to what you notice in this picture (in your notice in this picture (in your

journals).journals).

Musee des Beaux ArtsMusee des Beaux Arts W.H. AudenW.H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. 1940

In groups…

• What is the topic of this poem?• What is the theme or message of the poem

about this topic?• How is it allegorical?• How did Auden think this painting was

allegorical?

Perform Thor Trailers

• Critiques– Cheer for good effort– Boo for bad effort

• Discussion

Drama Vocabulary. Read: pp 625-33Record definitions of these terms in your journal:• Acts, scenes, stage directions, dialogue, tragic

hero, tragic flaw, comedy, satire, farce, characters, setting, monologue, plot, soliloquy, aside, chorus, tragedy. (Define how these terms apply specifically to drama).

• Grade: (on paper)Write a script or a long paragraph that creatively explains all of the vocabulary terms in context. Underline vocabulary words. (This is just like the professional vocabulary paragraph you wrote during the 4th 6 weeks)

Sources• http://www.bartleby.com/• http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMI

D/15923• Paschen, Elise. Poetry Speaks. Naperville:

Source Books. 2001.