Q1 Workshop: Focus on Close Readings: January 8, 2020

Focus: How can we improved our close readings in poetry timed writing?

1. Warming up with Serial Reader

2. Considering the nature of the soliloquy

• Offering you the 21st century, TV-version of the soliloquy (opening and 2:34)

• Who's involved in a soliloquy?

• What happens during a soliloquy that can't happen when other characters are on stage?

• What's the relationship between the character and audience during a soliloquy? (

• How does the soliloquy "break the fourth wall"?

2. Performing a dual reading of Henry's sleep soliloquy to shake out the complexities

3. Perusing your own timed writings and mapping out on the white board the what, how, and why of close reading (aka, Row 2 on the rubric)

HW:
1. TONIGHT: 

• Take on 20 minutes of Serial Reader.

• Look over Academic Vocabulary, List 1 (mini quiz next week on Jan 15).

2. FOR TOMORROW: Ask your parents/guardians to sign our class syllabus.