Transcript Journal: 2/25/2014

Journal: 2/25/2014
Read 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?
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their
reputation and yours.
Brian Koslow
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-discriminationin-switzerland-boutique/
http://www.examiner.com/article/jace-robertson-of-duck-dynasty-escorted-out-of-hotel-profilingcase
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 box
Step 3: Fold the points back.
Step 4: Label the flaps
Step 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)
4th Share: Find someone who shares your favorite book or movie.
**The
number
of Word
Skillswho
words
each
by two, as
divided
bywants
10, minue
4. (B)
3rd Share:
Find
someone
wants
to week
go to multiplied
the same college
you or
to have
the same
profession as you.
**The amount of children Shakespeare had, multiplied by 9, plus thirteen, divided by 8. (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: 740
For 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; 745
But 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 750
In 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. 755
The 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 760
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
What new motivations
surface?
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; 915
It 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? 920
Iago. 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; 925
For 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, 930
But 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? 935
Iago. 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, 940
Bade 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, 945
She 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
compositional techniques.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm#Sentential
http://quizlet.com/9369995/othello-rhetoricalliterary-devices-flash-cards/
speech and other
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.
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Iago:
Does Iago use a type of propaganda? Why would these methods be considered Propaganda?