Wednesday's Class - The Symbology of the Nurse

Get the following:

1. Composition notebook

2. Your copy of the play

  

DO NOW - COPY!
Entry Title: Vocabulary for Act II, Scene II (Pages 97-103)

1. goodly gear - a hot mess
2. shirt and smock - man and woman; man=shirt and woman=smock
3. e'en - afternoon
4. flirt gills - women who flirt
5. scurvy knave - someone with a gross disease

 AGENDA  

1. Do Now - Vocabulary
2. Reminder: If someone in class is not polite, politely correct them!
3. Quote - “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”  ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
4. Today's Question: What are some reasons the Nurse may be eager to help Romeo? 
5. Class Discussion: If the Nurse was a symbol what might she symbolize?  
6. Mini-lesson - How do authors use characters as symbols?(i.e. Doodle in "The Scarlet Ibis" and  Mme. Lousel in "The Necklace.") PowerPoint Presentation on Pragmatic Versus Romantic Love.
7. Guided Practice - Dramatic reading.
8. Assessment - Ticket out the door: Give one textual example from the play illustrating (showing) how Shakespeare uses the Nurse as a symbol. 
9. HW - None!