Choose one of these two options to get started: 1. If you have peers, friends, or family members who are willing to participate in a play, then select a scene that contains multiple characters. You will direct and perform in the scene. You may use the play The Proposal from this unit, or you may select a scene frorh another play that you have read or that you would like to read, These sources have short dramas you can perform: Children's Classics in Dramatic Form C by Augusta Stevenson You can also choose a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays that have been rewritten for a modern audience. 2. If you are not able to perform with a group, then you can find a monologue from a play of your choice and perform it. A monologue is a long speech given by an actor on stage. You can use a monologue from the play The Proposal e from this unit, or you may select a scene from another play that you have read or that you would like to read. Here are some plays that contain interesting monologues: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich's The Diary of Anne Frank • Thornton Wilder's Our Town • Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Part A Enter the title of the play in the space provided. Also summarize the scene from the play you chose to perform.

Which of the following steps is not part of analyzing a poem? a. explore the poet's background. b. explore the theme. c. examine form and structure. d. examine language patterns.

Why does koskoosh give up his fight with the wolves

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?