Othello Supplemental Vocabulary

Please review the following vocabulary words and definitions from Othello.

https://docs.google.com/a/capeelizabethschools.org/document/d/1aD2CMDhZHdv4SrrvhM8hRCKitS-WpLuizT3TfioK8EQ/edit

Modifier Help

Check out the following link for notes and practice on modifiers.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/597/1/

Othello Initial Response

After reading Act 1, Scene 1, respond in one of the following ways:

1.  Ask a question and pose a possible answer.  This should be a why or how question.
2.  Note a particular line, phrase, or word that resonates with you.  Explain your reaction or response to this line, phrase, or word.
3.  Note your impression of a character, a subject, or an idea that has been raised so far.  Use the text as a basis for this impression.

Making Connections

Read the following poem.  Reflect on how this poem connects to themes in Catcher in the Rye.  How does it connect to life in general?  What is the tone?  How might this poem connect to love and relationships?

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay. 

Robert Frost