Overview from 10/27 and Assignment due 11/3

Today we discussed what students had trouble with from last week's study guide. The goal was to make sure students were clear on all of the details from this act before moving on . We also took notes on the following:

o   Blank Verse/Verse drama-Poetic, stressed and unstressed Iambic pentameter. 

o   Soliloquy/Monologue-speech character makes alone on stage (reveals his or her thoughts to the audience).

o   Aside (Apostrophe)-something a character says to the audience or to another character that no one else on stage is supposed to hear

o   Dramatic Irony-what one character sees as true is seen as false by the audience.

o   Foreshadowing-hints or clues to suggest what events will occur later in a work.

o   Paradox- “Fair is foul and foul is fair.” (Paradox- a contradictory statement that makes sense. Ex: “Man learns from history that man learns nothing from history.” -Hegel).   Reference Pirates of Penzance paradox that may interest the students…Frederick is enslaved to be a pirate apprentice until his 21^st birthday not his 21^st year… he was born on Feb. 29^th…leap year. 

o   Motif-a theme/idea that keeps showing up throughout at story

For next week students are reading Act 2 (pages 29-48) and completing the study guide for that act.