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Drama,Writing, Speech
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Assignments

September
5     12     19     26


October
3     10     17     24     31 

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November
7     14     21     (28)

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December
5     12     19     (26) 

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January
(2)     9     16     23     30 

   

February
6     13     20    27    

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March
6     13     20     27   

 

April
(3)     10     17     24​

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May
1     8     15     22     29   

Materials Needed

Assignment 1 Material:

Complete Play

Assignment 3 Material:

Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest

Assignment 4 Material:

Shakespeare's King Lear

Assignment 5 Material:

Reading 1

Reading 2 

Reading 3 

Rhetorical Devices for Assignment 5

Assignment 6 Material:

Reading 1

Reading 2

Assignment 7 Material:

E. Nesbit's Summary of Merchant of Venice

Assignment 13 Material:

Orwell on King Lear (You do NOT have to read Tolstoy's essay on King Lear—just Orwell's essay in Tolstoy's opinion of King Lear)

Assignment 15 Material:

Outline for Critical Essay

Assignment 16 Material:

Speech by Hilary Clinton

Speech by Barry Goldwater

Assignment 18 Material:

Rhetorical devices used in Speeches that we have studied

Assignment 19 Material:

Rhetorical devices used in Speeches by Douglass, Lincoln and Bush

Assignment 21 Material:

Answer Key to Vocabulary and Reading Exercises

Assignment 23 Material:

"Hosts and Guests" by Max Beerbohm (Essay)

Study Guide Material on "Hosts and Guests"

Lesson 1 on Rhetoric

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