The work:
For the past two weeks we have been reading Henry IV. We have also been studying some vocabulary words such as "comic relief," "deus ex machina," and "blank verse" (TR). We identified scenes of comic relief and the true scenes in which we saw the relationships between father and son and also how some women play cunning roles in the outcome of the story...(GM). We took turns reading out of Henry IV with our [assigned] characters (PD). We [discussed] the combined character that is Prince Hal and Falstaff and the uniqueness of...such individuals as Hotspur (SS). We did have some fallen soldiers on the glorious Monday the 27th while most of us were in recovery from [the World Series] the night before (BB). We donated 180 grams of rice as a class at freerice.com (GM). We skimmed the surface of writing good body paragraphs when provided an introductory paragraph (DG).
The workers:
Conor stated that the ending of Henry IV did not live up to the expectations that he already [had] at the beginning of the play (JW). Steve said that Falstaff in Act II was an "immature cowardly figure..." (DC). Graham noticed the transition from funny to serious when Falstaff and the Prince exchanged words in Act II (SC). Eric found that Glendower's belief that the earth shook when he was born to be a humorous line (RH). Dan gave us a PG-13 rendition of the hostess's line, "Any man know where to have me" (CM).
Words to live by:
"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere." ~Prince Henry
"Do thou amend thy face and I'll amend my life." ~Falstaff
"O gentlemen, the time of life is short,/To spend that shortness basely were too long." ~Hotspur
"I will never be a truant." ~Mortimer
