Ronald Huang 5-17-19

During our Do Now, we were told to pair people up based on their character and explain why they would fit together when we pair them up.

After our Do Now, we read Act 2, Scene 1, lines 181 to the end of the scene. The scene basically talks about how Don Pedro woos Hero, and will reveal himself afterward so that Claudio can court her. Don John however, wants to ruin this plan by telling Claudio that Don Pedro actually plans to court her for himself. Beatrice also mentions that she herself will never have a husband, and Don Pedro then offers to be hers, but she declines, saying that he will always be away, and that he will be too valuable for her.

We then talk about characterization, which shows us how the characters develop over time throughout the scenes and across the entire act. Words that could be used to describe characterization could be: Courage, Shy, etc.

Jade Lombardo 7-21 5/24/19

Aim- What can be understood about culture and society from Benedick’s transformations?

DN- Reviewing Figurative Language

“Bait the hook well; this fish will bite”-Claudio (II.iii.116-117)

Explain how Shakespear uses figurative language(specifically metaphor) to move the plot and to create indirect characterization.

-This shows how dramatic Benedick is, one example is how he called Beatrice a harpy
-Uses fishing metaphors to describe people
-Uses Comedy, and increases comedic factor while having imagery

Watch Movie

Read III.ii.1-72

Respond to questions 1-4 in packet

Kelly Lin 7-20 5/23/19

Aim: How and why does Shakespeare sue nature metaphorically?

DONOW: (TURN AND TALK)
Define “metaphor.” Why would an author employ metaphor in his/her writing?
- They make language and life more interesting!!!
“You can’t catch Pokémon on raining days”

READ ALOUD
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Noting
III.I
(Watch the Film)

From left to right scheming ladies: Ursula (Jade), Hero (Sarah), Margaret (Teresa)

Enlightened Beatrice (Thami)

Ignorant Benedick about to be schemed

INDEPENDENT WORK
As we read, keep note of every nature reference and its purpose in your notebook.
Fishing metaphor- “The pleasant’s’t angling is to see the fish / Cut withher golden oars the sliver stream / And greedily devour the treacherous bait.”(III.I.27-9)

Celina Lin 7-19 May 22nd, 2019

Aim: How can we analyze the use of observation as deception in the rising action of the play?

Do Now: Read Balthasar's song about relationships, which can be found in II.iii.64-79. Try and deduce what it actually is saying. How appropriate is this song considering it's being sung while Don Pedro plots love for Benedick? How would the audience have reacted? Are there any modern songs which portray the same tone and mood?

 Continued from Do Now: The poem talks about the unfaithfulness of men and that men were deceivers of all time.

Read Aloud and Group Work
II.iii

1. What does Benedick believe about the transformation of men who are in love?

2. Describe his perfect woman. Why is this comical? What parallels of character are distinctly obvious?

3. How do Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato describe how Beatrice holds her affections?

4. What makes Benedick believe what the men are saying?

5. What is the distinct irony between Benedick's first monologue and his last ( in this scene)?

6. What specific skills and rhetorical devices are the Prince, Claudio, and Leonato using to trick Benedick? Give examples!

- We finished Act 2 Scene 3 but we didn't get up to the questions yet.

TISSUE BOX DAY

MAY/21/2019
Elias Karounos

Tissue Box Presentation Day

Today in class we did something special! The day before Ms. Fusaro had asked us to list things that people use to identify with. our list was incredibly big and we were told to choose one of the things on our list. Some of the items include but are not limited to, white, black, African American, conservative, liberal, pro-life, pro-choice, and gamer just to name a few. After we chose our identities we decorated our boxes and were told that we needed to get people to write what they thought about those things on little slips of paper anonymously. Today we had a class discussion for most of the period about what people wrote and what it means and what this means about our society.

What we were able to learn from this discussion was that the Antonopoulos aspect would lead to some hateful comments and that others found good answers and good discussions. many people actually have opinions about many of these things and would not have actually commented had it not been anonymous. 

The lesson and small project was very fun and I think I speak for my fellow students when I say that we enjoyed it very much!

Unsa Imran #7-17, 5/20/19

Aim: How does society create and react to different labels and stereotypes?

Do Now: Read Aloud (II.i 181-end)
Summary: Claudio wanted to get married to Hero the next day but Leonato told him to wait at least a week. During this time, Don Pedro will take on an impossible task: to make Benedick and Beatrice fall in love with each other. Leonato, Claudio, and Hero agree to help him.

Pair Share: Create a list of "labels" that can be associated with people. Write your lists on the board.

Group Work: Think about how Don John has been labeled a "bastard" and how this has affected his character.
Create your Respect-for-all Tissue Box by choosing one of the labels on the board. Feel free to decorate your tissue box. Discuss with your groups some of the ways you will generate curiosity and conversation about your tissue box.

We spent the last 15-20 minutes of class working on our tissue boxes. We will have to carry these around with us for 24 hours and basically just ask people to write down on a small index card what comes to mind when they see the specific label you chose and put it in the box. The responses should be anonymous.

Nicholas Hong May 15 2019

Aim: How does the "noting" motif emphasize the psychological and literary purpose of the masquerade?

I found the do now of this lesson particularly interesting. For it we had to take a choose a person in the class and write a compliment to them anonymously on a piece of paper. Each person then was given the paper with the compliment to them. After reading our papers Ms. Fusaro then asked us if we would have ever walked up to the person we complimented anonymously and compliment them face to face. Multiple people said that they wouldn't have, to which the teacher explained that people wouldn't usually do something like that because opening up to people exposes vulnerability within us, and that people are afraid of being vulnerable.

We were also asked how it felt to be complimented anonymously, to which someone said that it was a little frustrating not knowing who complimented them and not being able to thank them.

This ties into the book because in act 2 scene 1 during the masquerade Don Pedro took the opportunity to "woo" hero for Claudio under the guise of someone else wearing a mask.

Another scene that ties in with today's do now is when Benedick talks to Beatrice while wearing a mask, where Beatrice tells him, without knowing it is him, how she truly feels about him, saying  that he is a fool that lies to people and gets taken advantage of by others, and overall referring to him as a dishonorable man.

Sarah Hanglow #7-14

May 13 2019

Aim: How does Shakespeare criticize gender roles

Do Now: Pair ShareWhat roles do men and women have in society? Do they have different expectations? Has this changed from our past? Will it change in our future? How does gender affect our identity?

Some thoughts from the class:

-Stereotypes are associated with certain genders

-People identify with different genders

-Women= Skinny

-Men= buff and no emotions

-Over time it has changed men were the money earners and women stay home with the children

-In certain parts of the world women have even become more common in the work force

-Women are now expected to work and maintain the house

-Since a young age kids are taught what standards they are supposed to live up to 

-Girls= pink

-Boy=blue

-These things shape our identities because people will hide their true feelings in order to fit in better.

-There is a pay gap between men and women

-Macbeth: men were supposed to be cruel and women were supposed to be weak and innocent

-Men aren’t supposed to cry or talk about their feelings so men tend to have poorer mental heath and height suicide rates.

Pair-Share:Are there any contemporary examples of people who defy societal constructs of gender?

Contemporary: belonging to or occurring in the present

-Frida Kahlo

-Trans people (Kaitlin Gener) 

-Drag queens

-Women and Men in social media

-Ruby Rose

-Lavern Cox

-Eddie Izard 

-Jeffrey Star

***Shakespeare like to defy the gender roles at the time***

At this time the gender roles were even more rigid than what they are now.  So for him to do this it was defying the norms and was seen as controversial.  

Group Work: Focus on Beatrice’s lines during thus section of the plant. She gives many cues and hints as to how she lives outside of Elizabethan gender roles.  With your groups, determine who would be the “perfect man” for Beatrice based on her description.

-One group said Bradley Cooper has a short beard and is talented.  He is 44 and he is they type of person to be outgoing. 

-Our group said Michael Jordan because he has a beard and is rich. He also seems like he is not shy but not overly talkative. 

**The only authors that were allowed to be published were Christian writers at the time.  Therefore, we missed out on getting the perspectives of people of other religions at this time.

Thami Hamzane #7-13

 AIM: How does the director (Kenneth Branagh) and Shakespeare use Tone to convey meaning.

                    To start off today's lesson we did an exercise/activity where we used tone words to describe our feelings about school. 

                       While some kids descriptions of the school were bright and cheery most students had a dark drab outlook on school life, and with exams coming up that is a meaning that I can really understand.

                  We talked about the importance of authors word choice and how the words the author selects shifts the author's tone and the general direction that literature can take.

We then moved on to an explanation of "Humor's" and "Temperments" in                        Shakespeare's writing.

Essentially in Shakespeare's time's people  believed that behavior and general health was based around four humor's:

 Phlegmatic (Phlegm), Sanguine (Blood), Melancholy (Black Bile), Choleric (Yellow Bile).

And in order to be healthy, a person must have a balance of all of these. An improper balance could lead to sickness or changes in mood/personality. 

So naturally, we took an online test to check what humor you were which I linked below:

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/O4TS/

After this, we watched the movie of "Much Ado About Nothing" and discussed plot details and how the characters utilized inflection and tone.

Jacob Gurevich #7-12

May 8th, 2019

Today we took a vocabulary quiz.

We were asked to analyze the language of a quote in Mucha Do About nothing.

Benedick - l.i 257-262 page 21

The bulk that benedick refers to is him being a cuckold. He doesn’t want to get married because he is afraid that he will get cheated on and become a cuckold. Also, he refers to marriage as a horse dragging a wagon.

A major theme is displayed in this quote is dishonesty and deception and most importantly honor. Bendick cares greatly about honor because honor affects everyone.

We then read and finished scene one.

The goal is to get Claudio to marry hero. During the masquerade, Prince will go to hero, propose to hero, then when she says yes he says sike it’s for Claudio, she agrees to marry him, then he gets hero’s dads word. Which we discussed was very dishonorable for Claudio but it’s fine because it was at a party.

There’s a false rumor being spread that the prince really wants to marry hero which isn’t true.

Don John isn’t happy that his brother is getting everything and he gets nothing. He also calls himself a villain.

Don John is very sarcastic and hates Claudio

We learned about the definition of a bastard

Don John is a bastard since his dad who was king made him with another girl and not the queen.

Leonardo Gonzalez 7-11 5/3/19

Aim: How is Shakespearean comedy identified and defined

Do Now:(Pair/Share) what are your favorite corny jokes? Share!!

We told our corny jokes to the whole class and it was painful but that was the intro to the comedy lesson that we did.
Here are some examples of puns that were said
What's brown and sticky? A stick.
Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was out-standing in his field
What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta 

After that we had a discussion of why comedy is much harder to read than tragedies. We said comedy is harder to read because the sense of humor back then is much different than now and as time passes comedy will change. Unlike comedies tragedies are consistent through time and everyone gets the gist of someone dying.

We then learned about the different types of comedic structures in the book Much Ado About Nothing

Finally we finished reading Act I scene i in Much Ado About Nothing