Homework
English 9 - paraphrase each line of the Romeo and Juliet prologue.
English 10 - Finish reading Things Fall Apart. Dialectical Journals are due Monday. Be ready for a quiz.
English 9 - paraphrase each line of the Romeo and Juliet prologue.
English 10 - Finish reading Things Fall Apart. Dialectical Journals are due Monday. Be ready for a quiz.
Classwork
English 9 - Here are the notes we took on Shakespearean Grammar today.
English 9 - Here are the notes we took on Shakespearean Grammar today.
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Here is the prologue from Romeo and Juliet. Feel free to use online resources such as nofearshakespeare. Make sure you do not just copy the what the website has. Remember, paraphrasing means you have to rewrite it into your own words.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Act 1 Prologue
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Act 1 Prologue
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
English 10 - Students submitted their paragraphs at the beginning of class and those who were absent yesterday have until monday to turn those in. Today was devoted to reading Things Fall Apart. In class, we read chapter 21, 22, 23, and about half of 24. Students had time to work on their dialectical journals. All dialectical journals (chapters 1-25) are due on Monday. If you have been keeping up with your assignments this should not be a lot of work to accomplish.
At this point of the novel we are witnessing how the arrival of the British in Nigeria has created conflicts within Ibo land. Most of these conflicts are steming from the inability of two religious ideologies coexisting. The Christians are depicted to be ignorant of the Ibo religious customs and have severely disgraced the clan on several occasions. One disgrace results in the clan burning down the Christian church. The leaders of Umuofia say that the "shrine" is no longer welcome on their land because of the abominations it has committed against their culture. Ajofia, the highest member of title amongst Umuofia's egwugwu, tells the reverend he is welcome to stay in Umuofia and practice his religion but he needs to stop allowing his followers to disgrace the Ibo's beliefs. the reverend makes it clear he will stay and that he will not agree to the conditions presented by Ajofia. In the following days, the District Commissioner calls upon the Umuofian leaders to discuss the conflict between the Christians and the Umuofians. What appears to be a diplomatic meeting quickly turns into a trap and the 6 Umuofian leaders are handcuffed and put in a prison by the District Commissioner's men. This is a powerful scene in the novel because it shows that the Ibo leaders are no longer in power in their homeland. If they want to be free, they must meet the demands of the District Commissioner.
At this point of the novel we are witnessing how the arrival of the British in Nigeria has created conflicts within Ibo land. Most of these conflicts are steming from the inability of two religious ideologies coexisting. The Christians are depicted to be ignorant of the Ibo religious customs and have severely disgraced the clan on several occasions. One disgrace results in the clan burning down the Christian church. The leaders of Umuofia say that the "shrine" is no longer welcome on their land because of the abominations it has committed against their culture. Ajofia, the highest member of title amongst Umuofia's egwugwu, tells the reverend he is welcome to stay in Umuofia and practice his religion but he needs to stop allowing his followers to disgrace the Ibo's beliefs. the reverend makes it clear he will stay and that he will not agree to the conditions presented by Ajofia. In the following days, the District Commissioner calls upon the Umuofian leaders to discuss the conflict between the Christians and the Umuofians. What appears to be a diplomatic meeting quickly turns into a trap and the 6 Umuofian leaders are handcuffed and put in a prison by the District Commissioner's men. This is a powerful scene in the novel because it shows that the Ibo leaders are no longer in power in their homeland. If they want to be free, they must meet the demands of the District Commissioner.