Period 1--AP 20
The grade 11s did another PLT work sheet for their multiplication tables. We will finish with this for the school's Math PLT next week.
After this, we continued with our viewing activity of the two soliloquies from Othello. We "annotated" the viewing experience and looked at the richness within a visual text. This became particularly obvious when we compared the two different versions of visual texts--one the Branagh version of Othello, and the other, a recording of live theatre--or at least a lower level production. Students spent considerable time looking at lighting, music, body language, facial expression, pacing of dialogue, volume of dialogue, and other technical aspects of the play. We will finish this tomorrow and then move on with the play itself.
Period 2--AP 30
The students were given a handout on viewing the "Knight's Tale" to introduce the concept. We spoke about being active listeners and some of the cues and conventions they may practice in their daily lives while being "master" viewers. They applied some of their powers of observation to a visual text picture of Sir Lancelot and had to come up with words to describe the knight. By using those cues, the students then made predictions as to what the tale may be about. We went over the handout given to them with the cues and conventions for them to look out for and fill out as they watch. We watched it all the way through and then the students filled it in the chart as best they could while the excerpt was playing again. We will take up their observations tomorrow.
Period 3--AP 10
The students did another practice multiple choice exam today. They will get a little bit of time to finish it up tomorrow.
Period 4--History 10
I gave the students another handout with supplementary information about the English Civil War and Glorious Revoltuion. While much of this won't be on their Friday exam, it does help round the picture out of what life was like in England during this time as well as review some of the information we have just finished studying.
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