Journal: 2/25/2014

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.Brian Koslow

Journal: 2/25/2014Read the following quote. Write your initial thoughts about it. What does it mean? How does a rumor depreciate both the reputation of the spreader and the victim?

8 sentences

complete EOC question 26

Journal: 2/26/2014

How would you define stereotyping? Does this concept only apply to a person's ethnicity? If you answered no, how else could people be stereotyped? If you answered yes, why do you think it only applies to ethnicity?

8 sentences

What do you know about the people below? Think in terms of fame, personality as well as financially.

http://americasraceproblem.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/oprah-winfrey-experiences-discrimination-in-switzerland-boutique/

http://www.examiner.com/article/jace-robertson-of-duck-dynasty-escorted-out-of-hotel-profiling-case

Stereotyping in Othello

Do we see any instances of Othello being stereotyped in the play?

Has he done anything to deserve being called these kinds of names? How do the authorities in the play see Othello? What do they think of him?

Journal: 2/27/2014

Fortune Teller: Step 1: Cut out the box. Step 2: Fold the corners into the center of the boxStep 3: Fold the points back.Step 4: Label the flapsStep 5: Fold fortune teller.

Look at your Act 1 questions. Record your answers to the questions that correspond with the number on your flap.

Get ready to share.

1st Share: Find someone that has the same middle name or a middle name that starts with the same letter as yours. Share: Solve the problem to get the number that you share. (64-33) + 5 divided by 9. (B)

2nd Share: Find someone whose favorite color and favorite food is the same as yours. **The amount of continents times 3, plus 3, and then divided by 8. (A)

3rd Share: Find someone who wants to go to the same college as you or wants to have the same profession as you. **The amount of children Shakespeare had, multiplied by 9, plus thirteen, divided by 8. (B)

4th Share: Find someone who shares your favorite book or movie. **The number of Word Skills words each week multiplied by two, divided by 10, minue 4. (B)

The Arc of Iago's Character and Revenge:

What are his reasons for beginning?

Do we see new aspects of his hatred for Othello?

Analyze the following speech:

Iago. Thus do I ever make my fool my purse: 740For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane, If I would time expend with such a snipe. But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor: And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets He has done my office: I know not if't be true; 745But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety. He holds me well; The better shall my purpose work on him. Cassio's a proper man: let me see now: To get his place and to plume up my will 750In double knavery—How, how? Let's see:— After some time, to abuse Othello's ear That he is too familiar with his wife. He hath a person and a smooth dispose To be suspected, framed to make women false. 755The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night 760Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.

What new motivationssurface?

Complete your EOC passage question.

Journal 3/12/2014:Is Iago's deceit more or less powerful than destruction through brute force? Explain.

Iago's Character Evidence

Iago. I am about it; but indeed my invention Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize; 915It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours, And thus she is deliver'd. If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it. Desdemona. Well praised! How if she be black and witty? 920Iago. If she be black, and thereto have a wit, She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit. Desdemona. Worse and worse. Emilia. How if fair and foolish? Iago. She never yet was foolish that was fair; 925For even her folly help'd her to an heir. Desdemona. These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for her that's foul and foolish? Iago. There's none so foul and foolish thereunto, 930But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.

Desdemona. O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst best. But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving woman indeed, one that, in the authority of her merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself? 935Iago. She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, 940Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, 945She was a wight, if ever such wight were,— Desdemona. To do what? Iago. To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

Rhetoric: What does this term mean?

Rhetoric: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing esp. the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm#Sentential

http://quizlet.com/9369995/othello-rhetoricalliterary-devices-flash-cards/

Going back to Oedipus, what rhetorical devices or public speaking techniques did he employ to make him an effective speaker?

Now think about Iago who is not the only character to use rhetoric but seems to be the master of it. What rhetorical devices do we see from him and from the play overall?

Passive Voice versus Active Voice:

Oedipus: Iago:

Homework: Identify a political, religious, or social leader who was a villain due to their rhetoric or who's rhetoric villainized them in the public eye. Write or type up two paragraphs explaining who the leader is and his or her rhetoric.

You must not use Hitler.

Non-fiction piece: "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson While Othello is a fictional play, the motifs, themes, and social issues which occurred in the Elizabethan world still occur in our modern world.

Read the non-fiction piece you have been given. While reading, consider the following questions: * What is the author's purpose in this piece? *How is the piece structured? How does one thought flow into another?*How does the way it is structured move the piece?* How does the author's language affect what the author is saying? * What if the piece was ordered differently? What if it started with the bullet points. How would this change the piece?

Connections to Othello?

Which type of lies do we see in Othello?

Think about the idea of mixed couples. What do I mean by mixed couples?

The idea of a mixed race couples in Shakespeare's time was a sensation and not in a good way. How does setting influence how mixed couples are viewed?

Is this a big deal today? Why or why not?

Consider the following commercial. Would you consider this groundbreaking or just another average day? What about 40 years ago? Would we ever see a commercial like this 30, 40, 50 years ago?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYofm5d5Xdw

Complete the Word Skills exercise on your desk. This is practice/ study for the unit test on Monday. The test will be on units 11, 12, and 13.

Iago: Does Iago use a type of propaganda? Why would these methods be considered Propaganda?

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