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		<title>March 31-April 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have been extremely busy, and I have gotten quite a bit behind with my blogging.  Here&#8217;s an update on our classroom activities for the past weeks&#8211;we have completed quite a few activities, including the following:

We&#8217;ve been doing an intense grammar review.  So far, we&#8217;ve worked on parts of the sentence, clauses, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hargraves12.wordpress.com&blog=2151007&post=140&subd=hargraves12&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18-19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, we played a Macbeth bingo review game.  We also worked a little on sonnets and discussed the major test for Wednesday. 
Test is on Wednesday&#8230; sonnets are due on Thursday.  Remember to continue working on Senior Projects.   
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		<link>http://hargraves12.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/tuesday-and-wednesday-march-18-19/</link>
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		<title>Monday, March 17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!
We read and discussed several examples of sonnets today.  Students in the class have an assignment.  They must write an original sonnet and submit it by Thursday, March 20.  The sonnet must contain the following features:


14 lines


ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme sceme


Three quatrains plus a rhyming couplet (organization)


Problem/solution (organization)


Iambic pentameter (daDUM daDUM [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hargraves12.wordpress.com&blog=2151007&post=138&subd=hargraves12&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://hargraves12.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/monday-march-17/</link>
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		<title>Thursday and Friday, March 13-14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finished reading and viewing the play Macbeth.  On Friday, students did 32-second skits based on the play.  This was very funny!  The class actually managed to act out the play in 27 seconds.  We also looked at several quotations from the play, identified the speaker, addressee, and context and then discussed them as examples of paradox [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hargraves12.wordpress.com&blog=2151007&post=137&subd=hargraves12&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://hargraves12.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/thursday-and-friday-march-13-14/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday, March 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finished reading Act IV today.  Students then created a wanted poster for Macbeth.  We will share these posters tomorrow and move on to Act V. 
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		<link>http://hargraves12.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/wednesday-march-12/</link>
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		<title>Discussion Question for March 10-16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were going to compile a soundtrack for Macbeth, what songs would you include?  Why?  Identify at least five songs you would choose and explain your choices. 
Your response to this discussion question is due by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 16.  
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		<title>Tuesday, March 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students shared their motifs visuals today.  They covered blood, death, insanity, and manliness.  I went over the remaining motifs with the class.  We then moved on the witches&#8217; cauldrons and discussed how the ingredients and Macbeth&#8217;s willing interaction with the witches reflect his evil nature.  We then read more of Act IV, getting through most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hargraves12.wordpress.com&blog=2151007&post=134&subd=hargraves12&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://hargraves12.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/tuesday-march-11/</link>
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		<title>Monday, March 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today students finished assignments they began last week&#8211;the witches&#8217; cauldron close-reading activity and the motifs chart.  Some students finished early and viewed clips from the Reduced Shakespeare Company&#8217;s performance video. 
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		<title>Thursday, March 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we finished viewing Macbeth, Act III.  We then began three assignments that we will complete tomorrow:


Finish reading Act III, Scenes 6-5


Trace one motif as it appears throughout the play so far.  Create a visual representing this motif.  Include illustrations, symbols, and quotations in your visual.  You can choose from the following motifs:


blood


death


sleeplessness


guilt


hypocrisy


insanity


manliness


ambition


equivocation


hell


disorder




Read Act IV, Scene [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hargraves12.wordpress.com&blog=2151007&post=132&subd=hargraves12&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://hargraves12.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/thursday-march-6/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday, March 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We viewed Macbeth, Acts I-II today.  We will view Act III tomorrow and move on to an oral reading of Act IV.
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