Poetry Terms Assignment

Hi 9th grade honors!

Click the link below (and download/open in PowerPoint).  The assignment you have follows along with the presentation.  Take your time.  Read the examples.  Don't soar through thinking you will understand with a quick glance.

Poetry Terms Presentation

And have a little fun while you're at it!

May 13th - May 17th

Now that we are studying Romeo and Juliet in class, please remember to find a great outside reading book to read a little every day.  Remember, it makes a difference!

Weekly Quotes:

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” – Romeo and Juliet (The Friar) William Shakespeare

CRT Review

Here's a great site for last minute CRT review!  Don't forget to scroll down for roots, commonly confused words, and figures of speech documents for review too.

Grammar Slammer

Your Shakespearean Translations

Ever wonder if "back in the day" people had slang, fun phrases, or hip jargon? Well, maybe something like this:

Apr. 29th - May 3rd

Weekly Quote:

“I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.” Much Ado About Nothing (Act IV sc. 1) William Shakespeare

Apr. 22nd - Apr. 26th

Mark your calendars for Murray High School’s Shakespeare Festival!  Be sure to attend either April 25^th, 26^th, or 27^th! (Extra credit for attending.)

Weekly Quotes:

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. . . . Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

– Frederick Douglass

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!” – Much Ado About Nothing

(Upon hearing the news that Claudio’s uncle wept for joy at his nephew’s honors, Leonato comments how much better it is to weep for joy than to take enjoyment from another person’s weeping.)

Apr. 15th - Apr. 19th

Beginning Much Ado About Nothing!

Since we only have a classroom set of the play Much Ado About Nothing, here is a site with the play online if you need to read or look to it at home: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/muchscenes.html

Mark your calendars:  April 26^th & 27^th is the Shakespeare Festival at MHS!  Extra credit for attending and or participating.

Weekly Quotes:

“Some cupids kill with arrows, some with traps.” –William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Revenge is an infection of the spirit.” – Jonathan Maberry, Rot and Ruin