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__Macbeth Reading Journal #3__
1)**Background**: Find one theme that appears in your group’s scene. Write it down in your journal.

You will have to do two things with this theme. The first is you have to find a video related to your theme. The video cannot be Macbeth. Put the video on your journal and write a few sentences below it explaining what it shows about your theme.

Next you have to write about your scene. How does this theme come up in your scene? Describe, using a quote from your scene, how can you bring it out using music, sound, costume, or lighting? Moreover, you have to start thinking about what this theme has changed in the play. Look back to the beginning of the play. How is the theme different there from your scene? Look at the end of the play. How does this theme change?

2) **Actor**: Find one theme that appears in your group’s scene. Write it down in your journal.

You will have to do two things with this theme. The first is you have to find a video related to your theme. The video cannot be Macbeth. Put the video on your journal and write a few sentences below it explaining what it shows about your theme.

Next you have to write about your scene. How does this theme come up in your character? Try to make a list of every moment that where your character is connected to this theme. You have to start thinking about what how this theme connects your character and their personality. Look back to the beginning of the play. How is the theme different there from your scene? Describe, using a quote from your scene, how you would act out the two parts of this theme with your character. Specifically try to start describing what this theme shows about your character.

4) **Writer: **Find one symbol that appears in your group’s scene. Write it down in your journal.

You will have to do two things with this theme. The first is you have to find a video related to your theme. The video cannot be Macbeth. Put the video on your journal and write a few sentences below it explaining what it shows about your theme.

Next you have to write about your scene. Start with a quote from your scene that is connected to your symbol.

Use this quote from your scene as inspiration try any form of writing you want (poem, short story, dialouge). This writing needs to have the characters from your scene. This writing also needs to have this symbolism. Start with how it used in the quote and then go from there to new ways of using the symbol. Specifically, try to build a metaphor using the symbol. Explore the metaphor using divergent thinking always trying to come back and apply new ideas to characters from the play.

4) **Director: **Find one symbol that appears in your group’s scene. Write it down in your journal.

You will have to do two things with this theme. The first is you have to find a video related to your theme. The video cannot be Macbeth. Put the video on your journal and write a few sentences below it explaining what it shows about your theme.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Next you have to write about your scene. Start with a quote from your scene that is connected to your symbol.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe, using a quote from your scene, all the different ways this symbol is featured in your performance. Try to think of all the ways your can incorporate it into your film. For every new way you can use it in your scene describe what it adds to the symbols meaning. If you need more ideas you can look at how this symbol is used throughout the play. What do you think this symbol means? Why? How does this symbol change in the play?

__Macbeth Reading Journal #2__
Today's journal will have two parts.

__Part I__


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Background: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You have to post two videos to your journals. One should be a song that you would like to use for the scene you are filming for the play. The other should be a song that fits with the scene your group is creating (talk to the writer in your group). Write a paragraph explaining why these songs work for these scenes.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Writer: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They should Write a paragraph using at least one quote from the play explaining how it shows their emotions.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actor: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goto youtube.com and find a video of the scene you are making. Post this video in your reading journal. Watch your character. Find three good acting ideas that you may want to try in your video. Write a paragraph explaining what you learned from the actor in the video.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Director: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Goto youtube.com and find a video of the scene you are making. Post this video in your reading journal. Look for three good ideas in the video. Write a paragraph explaining these ideas and how you can use them.

__Part II__ Look back at the shampoo element you found in Macbeth Reading Journal #1.Writes short paragraph describing how you could show the important idea or emotion behind the shampoo using your role.

__Macbeth Reading Journal #1__
Today's journal will have two parts:

Go to 3U Macbeth Links. Click on the Full Text of Macbeth.
 * Part I**.

In this on-line text, go to the scene that your group is acting out. Search through this scene until you find one example of 'shampoo' figurative language. In your reading journal quote the figurative line and then write which of the 'shampoo' it is.

Remember that any 'shampoo' line is always a more important line. That is why Shakespeare used these tricks, to highlight important ideas. So look at the quotation you have found and think about why it is important. Write two or three sentences explaining why you think this line is important in the scene. What does it show about the characters or symbolize?

For an example of how to do this look at my Reading Journal.


 * Part II.**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Background: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Look at one character from your group. Find at least three pictures of this character online in different costumes. Post them on your journal. Write at least three sentences describing what costume you imagine for the character in your scene.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Writer**: Look at the scene your group wants to perform. Do you want to create a scene before or after it? Why? Write a short summary of the scene you are thinking of creating. Also: try to write ONE shampoo yourself that you can use in your scene.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Actor(s)**: Who is your character? Use your knowledge of them to help you imagine their life **before** the play. Write a paragraph describing a normal day for them before the play.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Director**: Look at the scene your group wants to perform. What mood does this scene have? Describe your vision for your film. How are you going to create this mood on screen? What type of movie do you want to make? Where will your setting be (Scotland, Hospital, CIC)? What symbolism will you use?

__Reading Journal #5:__ July14th, 2011

Once again **3** is the magic number. Today you will:

1) Continue [|reading the book] for wherever you left off last night. As you are reading you are looking for anything about Nick, Tom, Daisy, Jordan, or Gatsby that you can put onto their Facebook account (using the email/password on 3U Characters). You can either do many small things (like wall-to-wall messages, status updates, etc.) or you can focus on one big thing (make a photo album, create an event, etc.). The more details you use from the book the better.

2) On Facebook I can't see who is creating what. So in your reading journals here describe what you did on Facebook with these characters and why. This should be at least three sentences.

3) Lastly, pick one character that has interested you the most so far in this book. Think about this character and write down one question in your reading journals. Start looking through the book and thinking about **why** you find them interesting. Once you have an **idea** about why they are interesting, use that idea to write a short attention grabber in your reading journal..

__Reading Journal #4:__ July13th, 2011

Let's keep with the magic number! Today there is three things we are going to do:

1) We are going to organize your reading journals using widgets and tags (watch my projector presentation)

2) For today's journal you are going to pick one character: Daisy, Jordan, Tom, Gatsby, or Nick. This is an important decision. You are most likely going to write your essay about this character (though you will have some options).

Once you have your character you are going to practice the three new jobs for today: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world. (Text just means thing. This 'thing' can be a book, movie, song, poem...) i) **Text-to-self**: Think of and write a few sentences about how the character is like you. Also, describe how the character's personality is different from yours.

ii)**Text-to-text**: Find a website or a you-tube video about this **type** of person. Do not find a site about your character. Instead if your character is a killer, find a website about killers. Post the link and write some sentences explaining how this website connects to your character.

iii) **Text-to-world**: Can you think of a real person who is like your character. They do not have to be exactly the same but they should share one important attribute. For example, if my character were always telling jokes, I could connect them to my favorite comedian. Again find a website about this person, post the link, and explain the connection.

3) Lastly you will be setting up a Facebook page for your character. Please watch the projector for more information.

__Reading Journal #3:__ July12th, 2011

Write three short paragraphs (around three sentences each) following these instructions:

i) Research New York in the 1920s. In **your own words** describe three ways it is different from today's world. Things you can research: alcohol, parties, fashion, women, sports, money, music. You can find other things as well. At the end of this paragraph **link** using the 'Link' button to any website you used for research.

ii) Read someone's 'Who am I?' page. Looking at their picture try to guess who it is and imagine a little story using the information on the sheet

iii) Tell the story of your scar. When you tell this story though, try to be like Nick. Lie about one small detail that i8s not important. Additionally, leave out one very big detail that is very important to the story. See how that changes it?

Also feel free to add to our New York Song List.

__Reading Journal #1:__ July 6th, 2011

Write down the web address (URL) of a website that you read everyday. Write a short paragraph describing the website, why you like it, and why you need to read it everyday. If possible recommended examples of the best writing you have read on that website.

=Hi Everyone! Welcome to Our Class Wiki!=

**- to start the quiz click here:** Gatsby Essay Quiz
__**Feb. 28th, 2011**__

[|3U-WIKI-Ch.2 Homework]
**You are to complete the following work for CHAPTER TWO of 'The Great Gatsby' for MONDAY.**

**This work is based off of online research from sites like this: []. We will read the book together in-class next week. Your work has to be posted this weekend on our wiki:**

**http://kowgier.wikispaces.com**

**Team Y**-- (S8) Angela, Ashlee, Merry - (SK) Leo, Jason, Atom **Y=You-tube** Each person in your group needs to find a you-tube video that somehow connects to CHAPTER TWO. It can connect to plot, setting, characters, conversations, or narration. Pick one thing you are interested in from chapter one and try to find a you-tube video that relates to it. It **doesn't have to be a Gatsby video, IT JUST HAS TO CONNECT TO SOMETHING SPECIFIC FROM CHAPTER TWO**. It can be anything as long as you can write a short explanation of how it relates to chapter 2 of Gatsby.

Once you have your video you go to this page: http://kowgier.wikispaces.com/Team+Y-ch.+2, sign-in, press edit and paste the address of your video. Underneath the address write an explanation of how this video connects to chapter one. Also put your name under your video.

**Team S**- (S8) Moti, Watson, Felix, Barry (SK) Kim, Grace, Kate, Bi **S= Summary** Your group needs to write a chapter 2 summary Paragraph. IT CANNOT BE COPIED FROM ANOTHER WEBSITE. Your summary needs to break down into the three parts of this chapter. Each person is responsible for writing one part: - the train ride into the city - the stop at the auto shop - Myrtle's party

The fourth person needs to decide what they think happens at the very end, on the last page of chapter two. What happens with Nick and Mr. McKee Once you have your writing done you go to this page to put it on the wiki: http://kowgier.wikispaces.com/Team+S-ch2. Here you have to sign in, press edit and put your work under the right heading (S8 or SK).

Someone should go through your post to the wiki and edit everyone's work to make sure it has no spelling/grammar mistakes.

**Team PQ**- (S8)Jun, Karry, Ryan - (SK)Don, Kathy, Wayne, Chen **PQ= Picture and Quote** Each person in your group needs to find ONE quote that they like and understand from chapter two. You will then have to find a nice picture that matches with your quotation. Make sure that your quotation has proper citation afterwords. After your quote and picture you need to write a short explanation as to why you like the quote and how it connects to your picture. Once you have that written go to this page to put it on the wiki: http://kowgier.wikispaces.com/Team+PQ-ch2, sign-in, press edit and paste your work in the right section (S8 or SK). Also put your name under your writing.

**Team V**- (S8)- David, John, BJ, Tung (SK)- Bobbie, Joy, Angela, Vicky **V= Vocabulary** Two people in your group need to find twenty vocabulary words from chapter 2. Out of those twenty you also need to find five pictures that go with five of the words.

The third person is going to have to go onto the site and edit it to make sure that no-one posted the same vocabulary word twice. Also they have to post three links on to chapter one vocabulary that they found on the internet. All work will be put on the wiki here: http://kowgier.wikispaces.com/Team+V-ch2, sign-in, press edit and paste your work in the right section (S8 or SK).

**Team WWW** (S9)- chris, lambert, bruce - (SK)- Kurt, Chingiz, Darkhan**WWW= Who, When, Where**Every person in your group needs to answer one of these questions: who, where, when.

WHO: this person has to write a sentence or two about each new characters including George B. Wilson, Myrtle, Mr. McKee and Myrtle’s sister, Catherine. Explain who they are and how they relate to Nick and Tom.

WHERE: this person needs to write about the two main settings of this chapter. One of them is the "valley of ashes" this is in queens. Do a google search for "valley of ashes queens" and find out what this valley really was? What made all of the ashes? Put up a picture you found.

WHEN: Also you need to find some information about New York in the 1920s. What was it like then? Specifically look up what the 'Jazz Age' Means. Try to find some pictures of that time in NYC and videos of what music was popular.

All of this work will be put on the wiki here: http://kowgier.wikispaces.com/Team+WWW-ch2, sign-in, press edit and paste your work in the right section (S8 or SK).

**PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS! GOOD LUCK!**

POETRY FRIDAY FEB. 18th:

 * Press **Sign On** so you can add/edit this wiki
 * If you do not have an account please come talk to me and I will make one for you
 * Today we are making two found/group poems to practice
 * The first is called **'I am Us'**. All you have to do for this poem is go to your email account and search the words "I am"
 * you need to find one of your old emails that you wrote and find one sentence with those two words
 * After you have found an 'I am' sentence that you like copy it
 * Come back to this wiki and goto the **'I am Us'** Page
 * Press Edit in the top-right
 * and then add your line anywhere you want to the class poem
 * Next we are going to to the same thing with **'We are Water'**
 * go to your email, search 'water', find a sentence and then come back here and add it to '**We are Water'**