October 3

Aim: What are the various themes that we can apply to Shakespeare's Othello and what settings do you think are appropiate to represent the settings in your act?

Do Now: Write a paragraph on what you think is an appropiate theme for Shakespeare's Othello.

- What I think is an appropiate theme for Othello is where it may be filled with lies and deception and revenge, like for example, Iago, in order for him to accomplish his revenge, he would therefore lie to everyone and to gain their trust, persuading them with his failure of honesty.

Cooperative Learning:
Select one of the following themes and in another paragraph or two state why your selection best fits the play.
1) Appearance and reality.
2) Society's treatment of the outsider; and
3) Jealousy.

The theme that I chose would be jealousy because the entire play, Shakespeare's Othello, based this play upon jealousy. The reason why explains how Iago is so determined and jealousy at his current position, so in order for him to accomplish his evil deeds, he therefore lied to everyone else and persuade them with his so called 'honesty.' I state this theme to be the best selection because jealousy is expressed throughout the play, and overall, this play is rather tragic. Without jealousy, it wouldn't be tragedy.

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Homework

As the manager for today (Yay me!), October 3, Friday, I have taken responsibility to be the manager. They didn't vote for it but more likely assigned ourselves in which order hereby goes on that certain day. Our group consist of the members of me, DaQwan, George, Ariel and Stephanie. Our group accomplish so many things for this day, and because of that, no member of this team can have an excuse for not being able to do their work because all of us are updated to the latest information we've gathered and discussed until now. We also discussed which characters are to play in Othello's cast, the setting on where it would be based upon New York and Hawaii since our teacher suggested the idea. Our group also discussed about Othello's theme to be jealousy. Thankfully, Ariel finally shown up and I do hope that he would be able to remain in class so we can actually be dependent on him, a little effort would do as we try to convince him to at least make his own blog. With our group fully updated with our blog, homework, and the upcoming quiz to do, we are prepared on whatever it is that we are about to do after.

Settings for Othello

New York (Cyprus)

Hawaii (Venice)