Classroom expectations
What does SSR stand for?
Silent Sustained Reading
When writing an email to your boss, do you use informal or formal language?
formal
What themes did Shakespeare focus on exploring in his work that allows it to remain timeless in the eyes of modern audiences?
Shakespeare focuses on exploring human emotion such as vengeance and love
How late can you turn an assignment in before it becomes a zero?
until Friday the week it is due
Which of the following can NOT be described as “Evidence” in the CERI writing format?
Facts
Research
Interpretation of data
Interpretation of data
What is the difference between prose and verse?
Prose is poetry, Verse reflects normal conversation
Verse is poetry, Prose reflects normal conversation
Prose is flowery language, Verse is blunt language
2. Verse is poetry, Prose reflects normal conversation
What 2 things must you do to get a extension on an assignment?
use your worktime well in class
email Ms. Boileau before the deadline
What is the purpose of using Blind Carbon Copy in an email?
Blind Carbon Copy is used to ensure the privacy of multiple recipients while emailing them all at once.
Hamlet is unsure if the ghost is really his father OR a demonic spirit praying on his grief to get him to commit sin.
When do you get an automatic extension for work?
an EXCUSED absence
What is the main purpose of the subject line in an email?
To tell the reader the purpose or topic of the email
Shakespeare used both ______ and ________ in his work to make it clear to lower class citizens and nobility.
Prose and Verse
What item has your name on it but never leaves the room?
Your writers notebook
What is an example word showing a contraction?
Don't, isn't, won't, etc.
In Shakespeare’s famous “To be or not to be” speech given by Hamlet, Hamlet expresses that he has three paths forward: endure his fate, end his own life, or fight the injustice he suspects his uncle of committing. What lines from the play indicate the above options?
“ Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of trouble
And by opposing end them. To die – to sleep,
No more, and by a sleep to say we end…”
To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may com,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause…”
“ But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have…”
“ Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of trouble
And by opposing end them. To die – to sleep,
No more, and by a sleep to say we end…”