05.15 - Poetic Replies

We started today's class with everyone sharing their assessment of Juliet in terms of maturity and relationship partner worthiness. The breakdown of people's ratings was as follows:

Juliet - Maturity
1 -
2 -
3 -
4 - X X X X
5 - X X X X X X
6 -

Juliet - Relationship Partner Worthiness (RPW)
1 -
2 -
3 - X
4 - X X X X X X
5 - X
6 - X X

X = individual ranking on the Likert scale
Numbers = Likert rating

We then spent some time talking about why people had given Juliet the rating that they have. General class impressions ranged along the lines of respecting that Juliet was listening to and polite with her mother to feeling that she should stand up to her mother more. In looking at this more, we compared Juliet's lines at the end of the scene with a quote by Bilbo from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and compared the use of language in the two quotes.

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In each of these quotes, the speaker uses some clever phrasing to make their meaning a little more difficult to grasp. This enables both Bilbo and Juliet to honestly express their personal opinion in a polite way that does not offend their audience. It also shows that they are both pretty clever and want to appease others without sacrificing their own position.

Next, everyone completed the practice page for our set sixteen roots and prefixes quiz. We will have this quiz in class tomorrow.

Homework: 

 

Prepare for the set 16 roots and prefixes quiz for class tomorrow.

 

Complete section 3 of your public figure project if you have not done so already.
For information and resources associated with this project see the post: Research Wrap-Up: Feedback and Resources

Complete or revise any assignments scoring below a 3.

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