I’m grading your exams and they are looking good! Pat yourself on the back.

The last assignment of the year is an Oral Portfolio Presentation. Here are the assignment sheets:
Semester Two Portfolio Oral

Portfolio Rubric – Semester 2 Oral

You will need a 4Rs form for the War and Language Unit and the Othello Unit:

THE FOUR RRRRs

Your presentations will be one on one and we will start Friday, May25th.  You will have time to work on compiling your work, planning and practicing your presentations in class next week.  You do not need to start this assignment until the week of the 21st.  If you have been keeping track of your work this will be a piece of cake.  Mmmm. Cake.

See you in class,
Ms. Ham

If you have not already done so, please review the following handouts:

Commentary Writing Guidelines

Quote Blending_tips

Lit_terms_super_sheet

Commentary wheel

Othello’s Language Iago’s Language

These documents are great resources.

Here are a few more:

Commentary Rubric – English 1 and 2 for 2011

Reading a Speech-some linguistic approaches

Remember, your commentary passages will be about 20 lines and will come from Act II, III or IV.  Take a look at those acts and think about what portions of those acts are the most revealing in terms of character, relationships between characters, mood and tone of the play.

If you would like to read some commentaries from last year please come in during lunch or after school.

Good luck!

Ms. Ham

Here are the slideshows we used in class today.

Commentary Prep Block D

Commentary Prep Block E

Commentary Prep Block G

Please some see me if you have questions about the exam.

Ms. Ham

Rubric_Othello Scenes

Here is the assignment sheet for the major (in case you lost yours):

Othello selected scenes (2)

Ms. Ham

Commentary Writing Guidelines

These tips will also help you and your groups decide what to talk about in the oral commentary portion of your Othello Major.
Ms. Ham