Prepping the Performance, Take 2: November 21, 2019

Focus: How can preparing a performance deepen our understanding of Shakespeare's characters?

1. Warming up with a mini lesson on inversion

2. Perusing the rubric and clarifying expectations

3. Deciding on your opening question and passage for close reading (I will put them on a single slideshow); making directorial choices and rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing

4. If possible, delivering our first performance

HW:
1. By TOMORROW: Complete the brainstorming phase of your paper/project.

• If you're doing the project, complete the attached plan in your packet.
• If you're doing the paper, complete your thesis and a rough outline. 
• E-mail me, submit hard copies, or stop in for a quick chat.

2. (Optional) By Wednesday, December 4: Turn in your typed, printed one-pager on the Shakespearean film you have watched (see overview).

Heads-up! December 9-10: Poetry papers and project are due. Because we will be at the end of the semester, please note the following:

1. No extensions will be granted. 
2. You will NOT be able to revise these because you won't get them back until your final.

Please plan ahead and spread this out over the next few weeks. You will have one work day in class, but this is largely designed to be an independent, college-style assignment.