Thursday, August 25, 2011

SEPTEMBER HOLIDAYS (MAKE UP LESSON)

Dear Sec 3s

Please note that there will be a
Literature Mass Lecture
for all classes during the September holidays.
Date: Wednesday 07 September.
Venue: LT2.
Time: 9-11am 

Also, please take note the following:


Tutorial lesson on
 Wednesday 07 September
for these classes:
3GR: 1120am to 1220pm
Venue: Classroom


Tutorial lessons on
 Thursday 08 September
for these classes:
3BN: 8 to 9am
3CR: 930 to 1030am
3FG/MD: 11am to 12 pm (Comp Lab 2)
 3HM: 1 to 2pm
Venue: Respective classrooms

All students are allowed to bring in food to be consumed during the duration of the lecture/tutorial.
Please limit yourselves to food that can be consumed discreetly.

If you are unable to join the time slot allocated for your class, kindly find another slot and inform me via email (cchms_romeo_and_juliet@yahoo.com.sg) the slot you are attending.

These sessions are not compulsory but you are strongly encouraged to attend.
A parent's letter will be issued by Friday 26 August. Thank you.

-Ms.Annisa-

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

CA2 MARKS AND WEIGHTAGE FOR PROGRESS REPORT

Dear Sec 3s

For the Progress Report, the following sets of marks will be used;

Item                                                             Base marks             Weightage
CA2 Comp 3 (Project work Section C)       70 marks                 30%
CA2 Comp 4 (Project work Sectn A&B)     30 marks                 10%
CA2 Comp 5 (Test /Quiz)                              25 marks                 05%
CA2 Comp 6 (Wk 6 online comments)        10 marks                 05%

Deadline for keying in marks: Wednesday 24 August, 2pm.
No more work will be accepted past 10pm tonight.

Thank you!


Monday, August 22, 2011

IMPORTANT NOTE: Week 6 online task

Dear Sec 3s

I've published all the comments uploaded to the blog. I've also collated and printed out the comments sent through email. The comments will be printed in hard copy and disseminated before this Friday.

Unfortunately, the following students' work could not be accessed/opened etc.

Kindly re-send me the email comments that you made online either for this task or this one.

The students affected are:

XinYing, Anna Tan, Jessica Ho, Wing Kuan, Nicholas Lam, Brian Poh, Angie See, Teh Wenqi, Sean Chai, Ang Zheng Xiang, Lyon Chia, Ashley Seah, Joel Goh, Seet Yu Lian,  Ranchel Liew, Er Hwa Ming, Sng Wei Hock, Duncan Chew, Ren Zoe
It is crucial that the comments reach me by 10pm, Tuesday 23rd August. Thank you! :)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

ACT 3 SCENE 2 (PLOT SUMMARY)



For a start, the plot summary of Act 3 Scene 2. Please use your mouse to zoom in and out to the relevant portions of the presentation. Stay tuned for more updates! :)

Cheers
Ms.Annisa

ROMEO AND JULIET (ONLINE MAKE UP SESSIONS)

Dear Sec 3s

As some of you have brought up to me in person, we have missed quite a number of Literature lessons this term. As much as I would prefer to have our make up session in person, the fact that I am involved in the O Level Oral examinations makes it impossible.

Please note that face-to-face (individual or group) consultations will only be possible after the O Level Oral exams end on 31 August 2011.

To set your minds at ease, and to make up for lost time, please take note of the following timings when I will be online to address your queries regarding Romeo and Juliet:


22- 25 Aug 2011 
(930pm to 1030 pm and 11pm to 1130pm daily)

26 Aug (Friday)       
(930pm to 1030pm and 1100pm to 1230am)

27 Aug (Saturday)  
(4pm to 6pm and 930pm to 1030pm)

28 Aug (Sunday)     
(10am to 12pm and 4pm to 6pm)


Please email me your queries beforehand at cchms_romeo_and_juliet@yahoo.com.sg.
I am also available on Yahoo! messenger under the same email address.

Emailing me your questions beforehand will allow me sometime to work on a better, more comprehensive response to your query.

I seek your understanding in working with the above schedule until we can find a mutually feasible time to hold proper make up sessions.



IMPORTANT NOTE:

We will be having two sessions of makeup lessons during the Sept holidays. Tentative dates are as follows:

Monday   05 Sept 2011 ( 0900-1100hrs)
Thursday 08 Sept 2011 ( 0900-1100hrs)

Please keep the above dates free. Attendance will be taken for each session. Please inform me if you need a notification letter for your parents.


Cheers
Ms. Annisa

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

ONLINE TASK FOR WEEK 8

Recall the potential question on characterization that I mentioned in class.
Yes, the characterization of the role played by Vondie Curtis-Hall (below)

Prince Escalus

UPDATE:
Please attempt this online task individually.
Email me your response.
Upon receipt of your email, I will reply with a sample response to the question below.
Deadline: 10pm, Saturday 10th September.

 
Your task is to evaluate Prince Escalus' character throughout the play
'Romeo and Juliet'.
Based on the events found within the play, answer this question:

(i) In your opinion, to what extent is Prince Escalus an enlightened leader?
Your response, which must be at least 200 words long should consider the way he deals with:
- Lord Capulet and Lord Montague when the play first starts
- The news of Mercutio's death
- The discovery of Paris' death and Romeo and Juliet's suicides

Hint:
  • In order to answer this question satisfactorily, you will have to clearly define the word 'enlightened'.
  • What are some of the qualities you think an 'enlightened' leader would have?


For your reference, a transcript of Prince Escalus' key appearances in the play are as follows:

Act 1

PRINCE
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--
Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,
And made Verona's ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For this time, all the rest depart away:
You Capulet; shall go along with me:
And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
To know our further pleasure in this case,
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart


Act 3

Enter Prince, attended; MONTAGUE, CAPULET, their Wives, and others

PRINCE
Where are the vile beginners of this fray?

BENVOLIO
O noble prince, I can discover all
The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:
There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,
That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.

LADY CAPULET
Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!
O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt
O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,
For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague.
O cousin, cousin!

PRINCE
Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?

BENVOLIO
Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay;
Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink
How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal
Your high displeasure: all this uttered
With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,
Could not take truce with the unruly spleen
Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,
Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,
And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats
Cold death aside, and with the other sends
It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,
Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,
'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than
his tongue,
His agile arm beats down their fatal points,
And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm
An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life
Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled;
But by and by comes back to Romeo,
Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,
And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I
Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.
And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.
This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.

LADY CAPULET
He is a kinsman to the Montague;
Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:
Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
And all those twenty could but kill one life.
I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;
Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.

PRINCE
Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;
Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?

MONTAGUE
Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend;
His fault concludes but what the law should end,
The life of Tybalt.

PRINCE
And for that offence
Immediately we do exile him hence:
I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,
My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;
But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
That you shall all repent the loss of mine:
I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;
Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:
Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,
Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.
Bear hence this body and attend our will:
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Exeunt

Act 5

Enter the PRINCE and Attendants

PRINCE
What misadventure is so early up,
That calls our person from our morning's rest?

Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others

CAPULET
What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?

LADY CAPULET
The people in the street cry Romeo,
Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,
With open outcry toward our monument.

PRINCE
What fear is this which startles in our ears?

First Watchman
Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;
And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,
Warm and new kill'd.

PRINCE
Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.

First Watchman
Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;
With instruments upon them, fit to open
These dead men's tombs.

CAPULET
O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house
Is empty on the back of Montague,--
And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!

LADY CAPULET
O me! this sight of death is as a bell,
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.

Enter MONTAGUE and others

PRINCE
Come, Montague; for thou art early up,
To see thy son and heir more early down.

MONTAGUE
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:
What further woe conspires against mine age?

PRINCE
Look, and thou shalt see.

MONTAGUE
O thou untaught! what manners is in this?
To press before thy father to a grave?

PRINCE
Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,
Till we can clear these ambiguities,
And know their spring, their head, their
true descent;
And then will I be general of your woes,
And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,
And let mischance be slave to patience.
Bring forth the parties of suspicion.

FRIAR LAURENCE
I am the greatest, able to do least,
Yet most suspected, as the time and place
Doth make against me of this direful murder;
And here I stand, both to impeach and purge
Myself condemned and myself excused.

PRINCE
Then say at once what thou dost know in this.

FRIAR LAURENCE
I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;
And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:
I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day
Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death
Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
To County Paris: then comes she to me,
And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean
To rid her from this second marriage,
Or in my cell there would she kill herself.
Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,
A sleeping potion; which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,
That he should hither come as this dire night,
To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease.
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight
Return'd my letter back. Then all alone
At the prefixed hour of her waking,
Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;
Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,
Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:
But when I came, some minute ere the time
Of her awaking, here untimely lay
The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,
And bear this work of heaven with patience:
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
All this I know; and to the marriage
Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
Unto the rigour of severest law.

PRINCE
We still have known thee for a holy man.
Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?

BALTHASAR
I brought my master news of Juliet's death;
And then in post he came from Mantua
To this same place, to this same monument.
This letter he early bid me give his father,
And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
I departed not and left him there.

PRINCE
Give me the letter; I will look on it.
Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?
Sirrah, what made your master in this place?

PAGE
He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;
And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:
Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;
And by and by my master drew on him;
And then I ran away to call the watch.

PRINCE
This letter doth make good the friar's words,
Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
And I for winking at your discords too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.

CAPULET
O brother Montague, give me thy hand:
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.

MONTAGUE
But I can give thee more:
For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet.

CAPULET
As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!

PRINCE
A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Exeunt




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Monday, August 1, 2011

DIFFERENTIATED TASK 2 (WEEK 6)

In a post of about two hundred words, discuss the portrayal of the relationship between Juliet and The Nurse in either one of the two screen adaptations of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Focusing on events that unfolds in the scene that takes place in Act 2 Scene 5 of the play, which version do you prefer? In your response, remember to use several specific examples from your favored version which should include a discussion of setting, characterization, mood, theme, or even symbols and how what you saw made for an effective interpretation of the relationship between the two women in Shakespeare's play.

  • Please adhere to proper language and grammar.  
  • Please also note that you should be typing your comment on MS Word format and proof-reading it first before you post. Once a comment is posted to the site, it is there permanently! 
  • At the end of your comment, please include your full name, class and register number.  
  • The deadline for your posting is the end of the classroom session in Week 6

The following clips will help you in your task:

Clip 1: BBC production



Clip 2: Luhrmann's version

DIFFERENTIATED TASK 1 (WEEK 6)

In a post of about two hundred words, discuss the portrayal of Mercutio's dying scene in either Franco Zeffirelli or Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Focusing on events that lead up to the scene where Mercutio utters the infamous quote: “A plague on your houses” (3.1.91) in Romeo and Juliet, do you prefer Zeffirelli or Luhrmann’s version? In your response, remember to use several specific examples from your favored version which should include a discussion of setting, characterization, mood, theme, or even symbols and how what you saw made for an effective interpretation of Shakespeare's play.
  • Please adhere to proper language and grammar.  
  • Please also note that you should type your comment on MS Word format and proof-read it first before you post. Once a comment is posted to the site, it is there permanently! 
  • At the end of your comment, please include your full name, class and register number.  
  • The deadline for your posting is the end of the classroom session in Week 6

The following clips will help you in your task:

Clip 1: Zeffirelli's version




Clip 2: Luhrmann's version