Winter Recess (DEC. 24-JAN. 1)

HOMEWORK for YOUR HOLIDAY CHEER!!!

Please log into iXL.com and Myon.com each day for 30 minutes. You all have your username and password. Most of you have the two programs downloaded onto your phone. If you have any problems, please email, text or call me. Also, next month we will be reading the Great Gatsby. 

Please click the two links below and get ahead start on next month!

The Great Gatsby - the movie and  The Great Gatsby - the audiobook

Enjoy your holiday break! You've all worked so hard!

12/21

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Why might Desdemona lie about the handkerchief? What is Emilia’s response?

Option #2: Emilia suspects that more is bothering Othello. Explain: “Tis a monster begot

upon itself, born on itself.” 

Option #3:  What does Cassio do with the handkerchief?  

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12/20

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  When Othello demands “ocular proof,” how does Iago answer?

Option #2: Why might Iago ask Othello to let Desdemona live? 

Option #3:  What story is attached to the handkerchief?

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12/19

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Explain: “Oh Desdemona’s honest. Long live she so and long live you to think

so!”

Option #2: Othello fears Iago understands human nature better than he, and lists three reasons

why Desdemona may be untrue. What are they? 

Option #3:  How does Desdemona lose her handkerchief? What is special about it? What does

Iago plan to do with it? 

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12/18

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Iago says of Cassio, “men should be what they seem.” What does this mean? Why

is this ironic?

Option #2: Iago builds Othello’s anxiety by delaying responses to direct questions. What four

reasons does he give for not answering? 

Option #3:  Explain: “I’ll see before I doubt, when I doubt prove, and on the proof, there is no

more than this – away at once with love or jealousy.” 

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12/17

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  To what is Iago referring when he says, “Ha! I like not that”? What is he doing

when he says, “I cannot think it. That he would steal away so guilty-like seeing

you coming”?

Option #2: When Desdemona pesters Othello to bring Cassio back, Othello asks that she

stop, but says he will deny her nothing. What is her response? Why is she wrong?

Option #3:  Iago asks seemingly innocent questions about Cassio and leads Othello to demand

to know his thoughts. How does Iago manage this?  

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12/14

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Who had the handkerchief at the end of Act III? Why?

Option #2: What lines indicate that Emilia believes her husband is a good man?

Option #3:  Why does Cassio urge Desdemona to act quickly?  

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12/13

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1: What was Iago's reply when Othello demanded proof of his wife's disloyalty?

Option #2: What did Othello decide and command at the end of Scene III? 

Option #3:  What was Emilia's relationship with Iago? Desdemona?  

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12/12

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1: Why did Iago want Cassio to ask Desdemona for help in restoring Othello's faith in Cassio?

Option #2: Why didn't Iago simply tell Othello right away that Desdemona and Cassio were

having an affair? 

Option #3: What thing did Emilia find and give to Iago? What did Iago intend to do with it?  

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12/11

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Why did Iago want Cassio to drink more wine?

Option #2: What lie did Iago tell Montano about Cassio? 

Option #3:  Why did Othello strip Cassio of his rank?  

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12/10

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  What was Roderigo's complaint, and what was Iago's reply to it?

Option #2: Why did Iago want Roderigo to anger Cassio?

Option #3:  What was the purpose of Iago's plan?  

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12/7

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  What was Brabantio's reaction to Othello's marriage to Desdemona?

Option #2: Why did the Duke send for Othello?

Option #3:  Brabantio complains to the Duke about Othello's marriage to Desdemona. After

listening to both sides of the story, what was the Duke's reply?  

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12/6

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  What was Iago's complaint in Scene I?

Option #2: Who was Brabantio, and why did Iago and Roderigo awaken him in the middle of the

night?

Option #3:  Why did Iago leave Roderigo at Brabantio's house?  

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12/5

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Please complete the activity. 

Option #2: Please complete the activity and add another sentence expanding on the sentence already provided for 3 of the pictures. 

Option #3:  Please complete the activity and add another sentence expanding on the sentence already provided for all of the pictures. 

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12/4

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Othello is a general in the Venetian army who becomes very jealous of his wife. Which of the

following words do you think you will find in the story? Check any words which you do not know in

your dictionary.

Option #1:  Use you own words to define the words you're unclear about.

Option #2: Use you own words to define the words you're unclear about. Write a sentence for a few of the words you have define.

Option #3:  Use you own words to define the words you're unclear about. Write a sentence for all the words you have define.

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12/3

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Shakespeare is one of the most famous English writers. What do you know about him?

Option #1: When and where did he live?

Option #2: Can you name any plays that he wrote?

Option #3: What were theatres like in Shakespeare’s time?  

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