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We are reading Romeo and Juliet in class, and it is always fun when we get to Mercutio’s monologue about Queen Mab. The speech is full of vivid descriptions of this fairy who delivers dreams to people at night. The monologue is definitely open to interpretation, so I asked my students to draw her based on how they see the description in their head. Here are their pictures alongside some of the monologue itself.

“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes

In shape no bigger than an agate stone

On the forefinger of an alderman,

Drawn with a team of little atomies

Over men’s noses as they lie asleep;

Her wagon spokes made of long spinners’ legs,

The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;

Her traces, of the smallest spider web;

Her collars, of the moonshine’s wat’ry beams;

Her whip, of cricket’s bone; the lash, of film;

Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat,

Not half so big as a round little worm

Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid;

Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,

Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,

Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.

And in this state she gallops night by night…”

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English 9: February 21st – 24th

by Mrs. Abbott

Tuesday, February 21st / Day 2

Finish reading Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet
Act 3 worksheet

Wednesday, February 22^nd / Day 1

MUG quiz
Act 3 video clips

Thursday, February 23^rd / Day 2

MUG quiz
Act 3 video clips

Friday, February 24^th / Day 1

Finish Act 3 video clips
Review Terms: protagonist / antagonist / theme
Cast Act 4
Begin reading Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet

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Pre-AP 9: February 21st – 24th

by Mrs. Abbott

Tuesday, February 21^st/ Day 2

SAT questions
Finish reading Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet
Pass out the Act 2 packet
Act 2 video clips
(block 1) H.W. Finish Act 2 packet. (all blocks)There will be an Act 2 quiz next class.

Thursday, February 23^rd / Day 2

SAT questions
Turn in Act 2 packet
Act 2 quiz over Romeo and Juliet
Act 2 video clips
(block 4) H.W. Finish Act 2 packet.

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Pre-AP 9: February 13th – 17th

by Mrs. Abbott

Tuesday, February, 14^th / Day 2

Turn in homework
Quiz over Act 1
Watch Act 1 video clips of Romeo and Juliet
Queen Mab Activity
H.W. Finish Queen Mab Activity

Thursday, February, 16^th / Day 2

SAT questions
Cast Act 2
Read Act 2

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English 9: February 13th – 17th

by Mrs. Abbott

Monday, February 13^th / Day 1

MUG #4 sentence
Turn in Act 2 writing assignment
Watch Act 2 video clip
Review terms for Act 3: oxymoron, dramatic structure, symbol
Begin reading Act 3

Tuesday, February 14^th / Day 2

MUG #4 sentence
Turn in Act 2 writing assignment
Watch Act 2 video clip
Review terms for Act 3: oxymoron, dramatic structure, symbol
Begin reading Act 3

Wednesday, February 15^th / Day 1

MUG #5 sentence – quiz over the rules covered in the past 5 MUG sentences on Feb 21^st.
Read Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet

Thursday, February 16^th / Day 2

MUG #5 sentence – quiz over the rules covered in the past 5 MUG sentences on Feb 22^nd.
Read Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet

Friday, February 17^th / Day 1 – EARLY DISMISSAL

Act 3 worksheet
Act 3 video clips

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Pre-AP 9: February 6th – 10th

by Mrs. Abbott

Monday, February 6^th / Day 2

SAT prep questions
Vocabulary 6 Quiz
Drama Terms sheet with character map
Prologue for R&J – discuss love & hate
Cast Act 1
Begin reading Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday, February 8^th / Day 2

SAT prep questions
Finish reading Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet

Friday, February 10^th / Day 2

Finish Act 1
Act 1 packet
Watch Act 1 video clips of Romeo and Juliet

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English 9: February 6th – 10th

by Mrs. Abbott

Monday, February 6^th/ Day 2

MUG sentence #2
Finish Act 1 video clip
Review terms for Act 2: imagery, dramatic irony, situational irony, verbal irony, personification, monologue, & soliloquy
Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet

Tuesday, February 7^th / Day 1