What Makes Something Worth Reading? January 15, 2016

Focus: How can directorial choices deepen your understanding of Shakespeare?

Please have your signatures and banned book proposals on your desks.

1. Warming up with a few quick refreshers on capitalization

2. Putting your brain to the test by taking www.noredink.com quiz on capitalization

3. Diving into your banned book with this question in mind: Should this book be banned? If not, what makes it worth reading/teaching? What parts make (or made) it controversial?

4. Finishing the film version of Act 1 with same focus as yesterday:

In your "In-class Work" document, please try out the following tasks:

• Find two symbolic choices made by the director.  Consider the actors, colors, objects, movements, and anything else that involved the director making a specific choice in turning this play into a film.

• Why do you think he made these choices?

• What did the film specifically help clarify for you?

Please turn in your yellow focus and participation sheets.

HW:
1. Spend at least thirty minutes reading your banned book.

2. Finish your Act 1 word trace entries and keep an eye our for my feedback.