Earn your credit for meeting the requirements for English A, B, C, D.

If you participated in these classes and wish to receive credit you need to have fulfilled (or addressed) these requirements.

1. Class attendance -- List the classes you attended.

2. Material Read -- List material you read (in or outside of class)

3. Writing Requirements: See this blog link from the end of the first quarter.

Writing Requirements

Bring your essays (or creative material) in all three drafts.

4. Vocabulary Words: 18 weeks of vocabulary words ~ 10 words per week.

(For the brave few who did "Reading Notes" with vocabulary -- hurrah! -- bring these reading notes as well -- these notes go a long way for speeding the plow in this requirement -- as they should)

Pull me aside with your material and I will report your earned credit to Renee.

ENGLISH A:

MONDAY: Shakespeare monologues (see Erin or this post).

No set schedule rest of the week -- Ideas? Needs? Wants?

ENGLISH B: MONDAY: "Way of the World" -- Completed.

I will bring a copy of "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift (Congreve's buddy) if there is any interest in pursuing this great satiric essay.

ENGLISH D:
MONDAY: "Vanya" -- Act III
WEDNESDAY; "Vanya" -- Complete.

I finally found a copy of the Olivier/Redgrave production on Vanya -- in Chicago no less and only on VHS -- so hopefully it will be here in time. Otherwise.....?

English D

Supplementally and excusing the terrible copy -- let's read Act 2 of "Uncle Vanya" (getting as far as you can or dare)

ENGLISH A: No set schedule.

There is an excellent series from the BBC with John Barton a director of the Royal Shakespeare Company -- he works with (great) actors illustrating "Playing Shakespeare" -- I see the first hour of this series is on Youtube and I sent to Netflix for the 2nd hour disc. We could use class time to watch this together or you (yous) could watch this on your own time....

ENGLISH B: "Way of the World" -- Acts I - IV

ENGLISH D: "Uncle Vanya" -- ACT I.

Who are these people? Who talks like this? What do we think of people who talk like this? What is happening on stage as people are speaking? What are others in the room feeling? Chekhov is a master of the unspoken.....

ENGLISH A: No set schedule.

Two ideas to continue our discussion of reading Shakespeare as actors...

1. Here are three monoluges -- two from Shakespeare -- that we could discuss (attempt) in class. Here's the link to a file with these monologues

2. There is an excellent series from the BBC with John Barton a director of the Royal Shakespeare Company -- he works with (great) actors illustrating "Playing Shakespeare" -- I see the first hour of this series is on Youtube and I sent to Netflix for the 2nd hour disc. We could use class time to watch this together or you (yous) could watch this on your own time....

ENGLISH B: "Way of the World" -- Acts I, II, and III

ENGLISH D: "Ward No. 6" -- complete. We'll start discussion with Sections 9 and 10 (the discussion between Ivan and Andrey -- perhaps when we all know the outcome -- like Julia -- we'll see this discussion in a fresh light)