Follow-up Friday!

Block B: Thank you for your thoughtful responses to Chapters 2-3. Remember the setting and plot handout it ongoing. Add details as we learn more information in the book. We didn't quite finish reading chapter 4 together - so please complete chapter 4 and your text codes for homework over the weekend.

Block C: Today in class we finished reading Act 2 of The Tempest. You then worked to complete your 10-line play. Choosing the BEST 10 lines from Act 2 scenes 1&2 that best reflect the events, relationships and attitudes of the Act. If you didn't finish your 10 lines or the questions in class - please do so for Monday. Here are the questions:

1. How would you describe the moods of Alonso, Gonzalo, Antonio, and Sebastian during 2.1?

2. What character speaks in verse in 2.2? Which characters in prose? Why might Shakespeare have made this distinction?

3. Based on what you have learned in this act, which character would you call the villain of the play? Why? Support your answer with examples from the text.

4. As The Tempest begins, Antonio has overthrown Prospero, the legitimate ruler of Milan. Prospero himself admits early in the play that he was an inattentive ruler. Is the overthrow of a legitimately chosen government ever acceptable? Make a text-world connection to a modern day example.

Block D: After finishing our reading of Act 2 today - you wrote out catchy and creative newspaper headlines that best capture each scene (1-4) and handed them in. Your homework for Monday is the good copy of your Act 1 poem. Don't forget to highlight and label the figurative devices on your good-copy!