Act IV, the Gallop Returns

With not a lot of time left in the semester, we have a lot to do! Starting with Act IV today, you had a chance to review poetry elements and meter with 4.1 and 4.2 scenes (i.e. your homework) and then do the same with an individual speech from the remainder of Act IV. And even more importantly, you had the chance to gallop the lines to prove true iambic pentameter in the text. If absent, you will be thrown into one of the remaining groups that will be finished next time.

If you don't want to wait until next class for the Poetry Review Packet, I just finished making the copies, and these will be available after school on Monday and every day after. The review packet should not be daunting - it looks like your original poetry packet, the basis of all our poetry work. And, the poetry test will be in the same format!

Meanwhile, our schedule is fairly set for the remainder of the semester:

11/12 - Finish any Act IV gallops, Team Regan vs. Team Goneril (you'll see), Act V
13 - Poetry Review Packet - you will be expected to have answers for everything
14 - Diary/Journal Evaluation Day *Part of your grade is the peer evaluation. If you will not be in class for the evaluation, you will need to share/send it to me or bring the hard copy before your class begins. Otherwise, you won't be able to earn those points.
17 - Poetry Test
18 - Review for Final
19 - Second & Fourth Hour Part I of Final; Seventh Hour Whole Final
20/21 - Second & Fourth Hour Part II of Final (just realized that would be the part that I have to take as well - better find my lucky pencils)
21 by 12:30 p.m. - Last chance to turn in hard copy of King Lear Psychoanalysis Essay

*We will continue with Team MC and MC practices to prep for the final over the next week. These will occur when we have the time during class; hence, I did not specify the days above.