Focus: Editing your open question timed writingsDuring announcements: Jot down in your student

calendar that if you own Playboy of the Western World, bring it in starting tomorrow; please write down also that Poetry Response #4 is due this Friday and that Lear books must be turned in by Wednesday.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (and snacks): Debriefing the Open Question

Peer editing or big group editing? You get to decide!

HW: Read your new independent reading book; poetry response #4 due Friday.

Focus: Developing your Irish background to understand Playboy of the Western World

During announcements: Do you still remember syntax? It’ not punishment—just a little review.

Two Irish voices: U2 and William Butler YeatsStarting to research our topics for reading

Playboy of the Western WorldHW: Finish your research; independent

reading; turn in your Lear book tomorrow; enjoy sleeping in.

As you read/listen, quickly TPCASTT (title, paraphrase, connotations, attitude, shift, title, theme)

Bigger question: What are the tensions in these two poems? What tensions do they share?

Focus: A creative and fun-loving exploration of this play’s plot, political background, and characters

During announcements: Lads and lasses—Please help yourself to a copy of The Playboy of the Western World and write your names inside by the end of announcements!

A little Leclaire chatCelebrity Jeopardy? Limericks? An in-depth yet

creative approach to this play’s backgroundHW: Prepare for tomorrow’s presentation (bring any

props/music, etc. necessary; independent reading.

Focus: Top o’ the Mornin’ To Ya! Establishing a strong Irish background for Playboy of the Western World

During announcements: The sheer joy of syntax, revisited with a little twist

Briefly exploring Yeats’ “The Second Coming”Silent TPCASTTBig circle discussion

Preparing your presentations on the background information of Playboy of the Western World; AND…you get your secret challenges

HW: Presentations will take place tomorrow; please bring in any props you might need; independent reading.

Focus: Top o’ the Mornin’ To Ya! Establishing a strong Irish background for Playboy of the Western World

During announcements: QUIETLY turn in poetry response #4; jot down tonight’s homework; take out comp. book and Playboy of the Western World

10 min to touch base with presenters on the background information of Playboy of the Western World; AND…you get your secret challenges

PresentationsStart reading Act 1; journal as you readHW: Finish reading Act 1 and create at least two more

entries in your composition book that relate back to your “Hot Irish Topic”; independent reading.

Group #1: Read the plot description (p.2-7); present the entire play in a 2 min. skit. You may have a narrator and a sense of humor. Be sure that major characters and events are clear.

Group #2: Read the background (p.8-20); present a brief session of Celebrity Jeopardy in which you reveal important background information.

Group #3: Read the character descriptions (p.20-28); write a limerick for each character that reveals important analysis/description of the character and present it in a creative, dramatic, and/or sing-songy way.

Quote, speaker, and page number Quick paraphrase Analysis: Questions and commentary relating quote back to your

Irish topic

Christy: “…I’m thinking this night wasn’t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in the years gone by.” (63)

Paraphrase: Tonight I’m thinking that I was foolish not to have killed my father earlier (because it has won him the affection of two women).

Analysis: Christy appears to be an Oedipal figure in this play as he has killed his father. However, Synge twists his role, making it comic rather than tragic, since Christy is proud here of killing of his father. And why shouldn’t he be? Instead of earning him shame, his act has won him the attention and desire of two women.